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Reaching All Children with Education: Lebanon’s national education response strategy to the Syria crisis
By Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education In Lebanon, the five years since the beginning of the Syria Crisis have had a significant impact on its people and its institutions. With an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees now hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Basic education, emergencies, Equality, Equity, fragile states, Legislation, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Report, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, syria, Uncategorized
Tagged lebanon, refugees, syria, target 4.1
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Virtually Educated: The Case for and Conundrum of Online Higher Education for Refugees
by Martha K. Ferede, Consultant GEM Report, Lecturer in International and Comparative Higher Education, Sciences-Po In addition to increased provision of primary and secondary schooling, refugees also need pathways into accredited tertiary education programs. As was highlighted in the … Continue reading
Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage
The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Finance, fragile states, Primary school, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, Target 4.a
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No more excuses. Provide education to all forcibly displaced people
By the GEM Report and the UNHCR Education Section Days before the World Humanitarian Summit, we have jointly released a new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, with new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Child soldiers, Conflict, data, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, fragile states, Human rights, immigration, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees
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Working across silos to deliver for women
by the GEM Report, UNESCO “There is no doubt that education is the single most transformative power in an individual’s life.” Toyin Saraki, Founder and President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa Over the first two days of the 4th Women Deliver … Continue reading
Homophobic and Transphobic Violence in Education: A Global Problem
By: UNESCO Senior Project Officer Christophe Cornu Schools and other educational settings are supposed to be safe places where children and young people can learn free from threats and violence. Yet data from 106 countries collected through the Global School-based … Continue reading
Getting down to business: The Global Alliance to Monitor Learning
By Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education at the World Bank, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics We have just launched the ‘go to’ initiative on the monitoring of learning worldwide: The Global Alliance to Monitor … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, data, Developed countries, Developing countries, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged target 4.1
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Which way to the platform, please?
The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) bi-annual meetings recently took place in Amman, Jordan. Two points stood out from the event: there is considerable excitement about the potential offered by the impending Crisis Platform for Education in Emergencies, … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Economic growth, emergencies, Finance, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, finance, humanitarian aid, target 4.1, Target 4.a
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We’ve been told: your advice for the GEM 2017 on accountability in education
The consultation for the 2017 GEM Report on Accountability in Education is soon to close. This blog contains some of the suggestions made by commentators for the GEM Report to consider as it embarks upon the research. Full comments can … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability
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Funding education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the momentum be maintained during the current economic slowdown?
This blog, by Birger Fredriksen, a leading expert on the development of education in developing countries at the Results for Development Institute, shows that concerted efforts are needed to stop the economic slowdown in sub-Saharan Africa from impacting on its … Continue reading
