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Global Action week for Education: Civil society urges citizens to claim their right to education

Posted on 7 May 2019 by GEM Report

By Global Campaign for Education The Global Action Week for Education (GAWE) is a flagship event for the civil society education movement. Since 2003, this annual week of action led by the Global Campaign for Education has successfully chosen topical … Continue reading →

Posted in legal rights, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged free education, right to education, SDG 4 | 1 Comment

School doors might be about to open for undocumented children in South Africa. Let’s make sure they do.

Posted on 6 May 2019 by GEM Report

First issued in the Mail & Guardian, South Africa Last November, we commented in the Mail & Guardian on the contradictory laws in South Africa that discriminate against children of immigrants. There are now signs of change, with a letter issued to … Continue reading →

Posted in immigrant, immigration, migrant, migration, Uncategorized | Tagged 2019 gem report, immigrant, immigration, migration, south africa | Leave a comment

The learning assessment market: pointers for countries – part 1

Posted on 26 April 2019 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Luis Crouch, Senior Economist, RTI International [1] Measuring learning outcomes is key to the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4). There are about a dozen indicators that measure learning … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy, Uncategorized | Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy | 5 Comments

Remittances well exceed aid as the most important external finance source for poor countries: let’s make the most of them

Posted on 16 April 2019 by GEM Report

Next month, the GEM Report will release the breakdown of global aid figures for education in its annual policy paper. But the signs do not look good. ‘Poorest countries bear the brunt as aid levels fall for second successive year’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, aid to education, Finance, remittances | 1 Comment

The GEM Report at CIES 2019

Posted on 11 April 2019 by GEM Report

More than 2,500 education professionals will be in San Francisco next week for the 63rd Comparative and International Education Society’s conference under the theme ‘Education for Sustainability’. The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report is joining the crowd, taking part in … Continue reading →

Posted in Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged cies, education, sustainable development | 2 Comments

New Financing for Sustainable Development Report argues “action is needed at all levels” including on education

Posted on 4 April 2019 by GEM Report

The 2019 Financing for Sustainable Development Report (FSDR) of the Inter-agency Task Force, whose fourth edition was released today, reviews the global financing landscape to make recommendations for governments. It puts special emphasis on the five Sustainable Development Goals under … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged Finance, financing, SDG 4, SDGs | 2 Comments

Aid to pre-primary education: the gap between rhetoric and reality

Posted on 4 April 2019 by GEM Report

By Professor Pauline Rose, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Many donors increasingly voice their recognition of the importance of pre-primary education in their education policy, but few are matching their public … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Early childhood care and education, Pre-primary education, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, aid to education, early childhood care and education, pre-primary education, target 4.2 | Leave a comment

Accountability in action in education in Jamaica

Posted on 2 April 2019 by GEM Report

Last week, a meeting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of the Parliament in Jamaica called for officials at the Ministry of Education to appear before it to give an account of the Ministry’s operations. The reason for … Continue reading →

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Help us decide the future themes of the GEM Report

Posted on 29 March 2019 by GEM Report

The spotlight on the GEM Report and the outreach activities rolled out globally after its release give a chance for its theme to shift the education agenda. The 2010 Report on marginalization brought equity into the limelight, for example. But … Continue reading →

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A woman has won the ‘Nobel prize for mathematics’ for the first time

Posted on 25 March 2019 by GEM Report

The 2019 Abel Prize, also known as the ‘Nobel prize for mathematics’ was won by Karen Uhlenbeck last Tuesday, the first woman to ever receive the award. The award makes her one of the pioneers for women mathematicians, alongside … Continue reading →