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Punishing teachers is often counter-productive
One of the key messages of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2017/8, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments is that punishing teachers can often be counter-productive. Teachers have the primary responsibility for educating students. But in many countries, they … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teachers, teaching
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The Partnership Schools for Liberia: A critical analysis
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland To experiment with the possible privatization of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. This … Continue reading
Posted in private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized
Tagged liberia, private schools, privatisation
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Accountability to fulfilling the right to education
By Allyson Krupar, Senior Associate, Right to Education Index, RESULTS Educational Fund The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring Report highlights the role of civil society organizations such as RESULTS Education Fund (REF) as crucial to advance the right to education and … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Report, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, civil society, right to education
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Does school choice really exist?
An idea that has gained popularity in some circles in recent years is that giving a choice to parents over where their children are educated and introducing competition in an education ‘market’ will raise standards across the system through healthy … Continue reading
Key takeaways from the 2017/8 GEM Report
The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring Report, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments, fulfils its mandate to follow countries’ progress towards achieving the global education goal but also focuses on the theme of accountability in education. Why did we choose to … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, Report, SDG, SDG4
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Learning from Promising Practices in Refugee Education
By Emma Wagner, Education in Emergencies Policy & Advocacy Adviser, Save the Children Earlier this year Save the Children, Pearson and UNHCR formed a new groundbreaking partnership to tackle the refugee education crisis. The Promising Practices in Refugee Education initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, innovation, migration, refugee education, refugees
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One week on from the 2017/8 GEM Report launch: a round-up
Not even a short power cut, which plunged the ballroom of Maputo’s Gloria Hotel into temporary darkness, could stifle the anticipation of those gathered to mark the global launch of the 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report- Accountability in education: … Continue reading
Governments need to ensure rules are followed in education
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO No matter your job, you need standards to ensure that you are working to meet your objectives. Unfortunately, where education and schools are concerned, these standards sometimes do not … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, private schools, SDG4, SDGs
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New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’
The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report was released today at global events in Maputo, Mozambique, Brasilia, Brazil and in London, UK. It stresses that accountability is indispensable in achieving SDG 4. The Report highlights the responsibility of governments to … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Inclusion, monitoring, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Testing, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, education, governance, private schools, regulations, school choice, target 4.c, teachers, Testing
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Let teachers teach: The dangers of expanding teacher workloads
Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we look at one of the findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on accountability in education due out later this month. The Report celebrates the undeniably critical role that teachers play in any education system: … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Teachers, teaching, tertiary education, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teacher, teachers, teaching
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