Category Archives: Uncategorized

Is overeducation a threat in Latin America?

Posted on 7 July 2016 by GEM Report

Dr. Raul Ramos is Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Researcher at the Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional, University of Barcelona, Spain. Fortunately, differences between countries with regard to the education levels of their population continues to decline very markedly. According … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Learning, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged education, learning, teaching, universities | 4 Comments

The Arguments and Evidence behind Public-Private Partnerships in Education

Posted on 5 July 2016 by GEM Report

By Donald Baum, Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Brigham Young University Over the last few months, Liberia has become the site of and source for significant debate over its decision to initiate a large scale public-private partnership (PPP) … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Finance, private schools, private sector, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged education, learning, private education, private schools, private sector | 1 Comment

What it’s like teaching refugees in Malawi

Posted on 24 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Dede Buloba Everyone agrees that education is important in a refugee camp to help those who have had to drop out of school to move across borders. I can speak about this from my experience as refugee, now teaching … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Conflict, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged malawi, refugees, target 4.1, Target 4.a, target 4.c | 5 Comments

When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?

Posted on 23 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Finance, Human rights, private schools, private sector, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged finance, private schools, target 4.1 | 1 Comment

Building resilience and shaping futures: the UNRWA response to the education needs of Palestine refugees from Syria

Posted on 21 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Caroline Pontefract, Director of Education, UNRWA/UNESCO Education Programme Over the past 65 years, the UNRWA/UNESCO education programme has been providing quality and equitable learning opportunities for refugees, and is currently supporting 500,000 refugees in the Middle East despite the … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees | 6 Comments

Refugees are more than just numbers

Posted on 20 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Salam Al-Nukta, youth Advisor to the GEM Report. In a world where war is constantly taking place, violence and human rights violation force hundreds of families to flee their countries everyday leaving behind wounded memories, beloved ones and broken … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees | 2 Comments

No child should have to pay the cost of war

Posted on 20 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Malala Yousafzai, Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund No child should have to pay the cost of war, to be kept away from the classroom because of conflict. Yet whole generations of refugee children … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, refugees | 4 Comments

How to include all in monitoring the global goal in education SDG4?

Posted on 16 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Aaron Benavot, Director of the GEM Report It’s tough to cover this issue in a blog. It’s something we cover extensively in the next GEM Report due out on September 6th. But it’s also something I presented on today … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Finance, Marginalization, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5 | 1 Comment

Reflections: The First Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board Meeting

Posted on 10 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Baela Raza Jamil- Vice Chair GEM Report For two full days I was honoured to Chair the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report’s First Advisory Board meeting (June 2-3 2016). Jeff Sachs our luminary Chairperson was unable to attend due … Continue reading →

Posted in Donors, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged education, Education for All, GMR, post-2015, SDG, SDGs, UNESCO | 5 Comments

Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education

Posted on 30 May 2016 by GEM Report

The recent policy paper by the GEM Report containing the data on 2014 aid spending shows that, for several years, aid to education has been stuck not only at a level far below what is needed but even below levels … Continue reading →