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New 2019 GEM Report shows insufficient progress including migrants and refugees in national education systems

Posted on 20 November 2018 by GEM Report

Launched at events across five continents today, the new Global Education Monitoring Report, Building Bridges, not Walls shows that progress is insufficient in providing an inclusive education for migrants, refugees or other displaced people. Migration and displacement affect education. … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Equality, Equity, immigration, migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2019 gem report, global compact for migration, global compact for refugees, immigrant, Inclusion, inclusive education, leave no one behind, migrants, migration, refugee education, refugees, SDG 4 | 3 Comments

We are now ready to start monitoring early-grade learning

Posted on 7 November 2018 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Young learners have moved up the data agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4! The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and its partners have been pushing to upgrade SDG 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in monitoring, Primary school, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged early-grade learning, monitoring, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

Education is not a privilege, it’s a legal right

Posted on 5 November 2018 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, UNESCO Education is like a seed. And for this empowering right to flourish and grow, it must have the best conditions. Education must not only be accessible to all, it must be … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, monitoring, right to education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged monitoring, right to education | 9 Comments

Tanzania has suspended family planning commercials in the country ‘with immediate effect’

Posted on 30 October 2018 by GEM Report

At the end of September, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania announced to international agencies that they should “stop with immediate effect airing and publishing any family planning contents in any media channels” running any family planning content … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Health, sexuality education, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, media, pregnancy, sexuality education, tanzania, target 4.7 | 3 Comments

More testing?

Posted on 24 October 2018 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis and William C. Smith This blog looks at the contrasting findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on Accountability and a recent study by Berbauer, Hanushek, and Woessmann over whether more testing is good for education or not. … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, teaching, Testing, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teaching, Testing | Leave a comment

Who benefits from abolishing secondary school fees in Malawi, and what are the costs?

Posted on 19 October 2018 by GEM Report

By Esme Kadzamira, Centre for Education Research and Training, University of Malawi, Pauline Rose, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge and Asma Zubairi, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Finance, rural development, Uncategorized | Tagged fee abolition, malawi, sub-Saharan Africa | 6 Comments

A teacher remains fiercely committed to her students as UNRWA schools face closure

Posted on 17 October 2018 by GEM Report

Nesrin Ayoub is the head-teacher of an UNRWA-run girls’ primary school of 450 girls aged 6-16 years in Ein Hilweh Refugee Camp, in Lebanon. All the children are all Palestine refugees from Lebanon and Syria. People in the Ein Hilweh … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged 2019 gem report, conflict, migration, refugee, refugee education, refugees | 1 Comment

It is time to upgrade the SDG 4 learning indicator for young children

Posted on 16 October 2018 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) We are on the cusp of a new phase in the global measurement of learning. For the first time, representatives of cross-national learning assessments have agreed on a set … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged data, literacy, monitoring, target 4.1 | 7 Comments

‘A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change anything’

Posted on 5 October 2018 by GEM Report

This cliché emblazoned on chipped mugs in school staff rooms all over the world is impossible to refute. We all know teachers have the power to transform both individual lives, and the fortunes of nations. And, as the theme of … Continue reading →

Posted in pedagogy, Quality of education, refugees, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c, teachers, teaching | 11 Comments

Refugee education deserves higher priority in aid – but so do the data on it

Posted on 26 September 2018 by GEM Report

Today at the UNICEF headquarters, as part of events marking the United Nations General Assembly week, a high-level meeting on action for refugee education is being co-led by UNHCR and Save the Children. It is giving prominence to the findings … Continue reading →