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10 messages and 10 recommendations on disability and education
Timed to coincide with next week’s Global Disability Summit co-hosted by United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Government of Kenya and the International Disability Alliance, we have produced a summary of content related to disability and education from our … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusive education
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Join the online consultation for the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education
Following previous GEM reports on education and the other SDGs (2016), accountability (2017/8), and migration and displacement (2019), the 2020 GEM Report will focus on inclusion. An online consultation opened this morning for the Report and will run for eight … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusive education
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Learning lessons from Uganda on transparent education reporting for the public
The 2017/8 GEM Report showed that national education monitoring reports are a vital tool for transparency and accountability in education yet only 21 out of 48 countries in the sub-Saharan region published an education monitoring report at least once since … Continue reading
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Initial findings from the new Afrobarometer confirm that educated people are more likely to migrate
The Afrobarometer is a pan-African network that carries out face to face opinion surveys in more than 35 countries each year. The full data is due out later this year, but initial data from nine countries – Ghana, Benin, Côte … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019 gem report, Africa, migration
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What does the final draft of the Global Compact for Migration say about education?
The final draft of the first intergovernmentally negotiated agreement on the governance of migration, the Global Compact for Migration, was released today. This is not a small feat given the vast divides in opinion on this issue around the world … Continue reading
Introducing the Mini-LAMP: A practical option for developing countries to assess reading and numeracy skills
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) I am in Bangkok at the Asia-Pacific Meeting on Education 2030 (APMED) to find ways to transform learning and meet the skills demand to achieve the SDGs. There is … Continue reading
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Everyone benefits from diversity on campus – why the problem with affirmative action?
This week, affirmative action has been making the headlines in the United States. First introduced by President Kennedy in 1961, the policy was designed to ensure non-discrimination in university enrollment. Although originally some universities used strict quotas to admit a … Continue reading
