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Join the online consultation for the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education

Posted on 18 July 2018 by GEM Report

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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Learning lessons from Uganda on transparent education reporting for the public

Posted on 16 July 2018 by GEM Report

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

Posted on 13 July 2018 by GEM Report

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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What does the final draft of the Global Compact for Migration say about education?

Posted on 12 July 2018 by GEM Report

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 →

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Introducing the Mini-LAMP: A practical option for developing countries to assess reading and numeracy skills

Posted on 12 July 2018 by GEM Report

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?

Posted on 6 July 2018 by GEM Report

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 →

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How Brazil is shortening the “To-Do” List for SDG 4 Data

Posted on 5 July 2018 by GEM Report

By Betina Fresneda, Socioeconomic Analyst, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) As Education Ministers of Latin America and the Caribbean gather for a regional meeting in Bolivia from 25-26 July, a perspective from Brazil shows how countries can respond … Continue reading →

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Promoting changes in gender norms in Latin America: why boys’ education matters

Posted on 4 July 2018 by GEM Report

In Latin America, discussions on education and gender take a different form. Here, as discussed during a recent UNESCO convened workshop for key education stakeholders in Brasilia, the gender gap is at the expense of boys particularly at the secondary … Continue reading →

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A national perspective on the Swiss education system

Posted on 3 July 2018 by GEM Report

On June 19, Switzerland published the Swiss Education Report 2018. Fully in line with the GEM Report’s #MakeitPublic, campaign to ensure that all countries report back to their citizens on their progress in education, the new Report provides new analysis … Continue reading →

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If education cannot wait, then humanitarian aid needs to increase

Posted on 29 June 2018 by GEM Report

The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018 (GHA 2018) was released last week along with UNHCR’s Global Trends Report. Just as there are more people displaced than ever before, levels of humanitarian assistance are also at an all-time high. The GHA … Continue reading →

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