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Join our youth photo competition

Posted on 7 March 2017 by GEM Report

In September 2015, the member states of the United Nations agreed on a new sustainable development agenda with 17 goals to be achieved by 2030. These Sustainable Development Goals are the collective vision of the international community. They merge the … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged gender. equality, global citizenship, peace, sustainable development, Target 4.4, target 4.7 | 1 Comment

The poorest young women have spent less than a year in school in the bottom ten countries

Posted on 6 March 2017 by GEM Report

It’s International Women’s Day this week. As people in different cities rally for gender equality, not enough changes are being made to help the poorest girls pick themselves up from the bottom of the education ladder in many parts of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, parity, Uncategorized | Tagged equality, female education, Gender, Pakistan, SDGs, somalia, Sudan, United Nations | 1 Comment

The GEM Report at the 2017 CIES Annual Conference

Posted on 2 March 2017 by GEM Report

The GEM Report is pleased to be participating at the 2017 Comparative and International Education Conference Society’s 61st Annual Conference next week. Please join us at the below events, and/or take part in our online discussions using @GEMReport and #CIES2017. … Continue reading →

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Learning to protest with words

Posted on 1 March 2017 by GEM Report

Thus far 2017 has been a year of protests, sprouting up in response to shifts in political tides. But, given the rifts in ideological and political viewpoints currently creating divisions within countries, it is notable that these shifts have not … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged citizenship, global citizenship, protests, violence | Leave a comment

The challenge of Target 4.7 in fragile and low-resource contexts

Posted on 28 February 2017 by GEM Report

By Margaret Sinclair (Technical Adviser, Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict Programme, Education Above All Foundation) and Jean Bernard (Senior Partner, Spectacle Learning Media) Given current challenges of conflict, insecurity and environmental collapse, we must put maximum effort into Sustainable … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, pedagogy, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged books, school, sdg 4.7, target 4.7, teaching, textbooks | 3 Comments

Closing the circle: Teaching gender issues to teachers

Posted on 27 February 2017 by GEM Report

Last week the French supreme council for gender equality published a report on the imperative to keep mainstreaming gender equality issues in teacher preparation programs and to make knowledge and skills in these areas required for teacher graduation. “Making teachers … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, pedagogy, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, target 4.c, teacher, teaching | 2 Comments

Boko Haram won’t win

Posted on 24 February 2017 by GEM Report

By Zannah Mustapha, founder of Future Prowess Today, a conference is being held to look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding in north-eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. I live this crisis every day. I have seen a thousand orphans … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, fragile states, school violence, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged boko haram, conflict, nigeria, violence | 1 Comment

Still learning about early learning in Ethiopia

Posted on 23 February 2017 by GEM Report

By Jack Rossiter, Young Lives, Ethiopia The potential of O-Class in Ethiopia In 2017, the research study I work for, Young Lives, released its first early learning publication: Scaling up Early Learning in Ethiopia: Exploring the Potential of O-Class [O-Class … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Pre-primary education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged early childhood care and education, ethiopia, learning, target 4.2 | 2 Comments

Evaluating Liberia’s private school partners: why policy decisions must be based on more than numbers

Posted on 16 February 2017 by GEM Report

By Stuart Cameron, Senior Education Consultant at Oxford Policy Management. ‘Partnership Schools for Liberia’ (PSL) is a hot topic in education policy circles. A pilot programme outsourcing control of government primary schools to eight private providers, it has attracted considerable … Continue reading →

Posted in private schools, private sector, Uncategorized | Tagged education international, liberia, partnerships, private sector | 4 Comments

Citizenship Education in Morocco: How civil society organizations can help

Posted on 15 February 2017 by GEM Report

Elarbi Imad, President, Moroccan Center for Civic Education Recently, there has been growing interest in citizenship education across the world. With the rise of the Arab Spring there has been recognition within Morocco that citizenship education can help equip youth … Continue reading →