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Aid to education has gone down
Timed to coincide with GCE’s Global Action Week, Fund the Future, we have estimated the latest aid figures for education showing that levels went down 4% between 2013 and 2014. The share of total aid being allocated to education also fell … Continue reading
Do international rankings of universities help make them more accountable?
The GEM Report 2017 will be looking at how we can improve accountability in education. Hoping to engage people in the types of issues our Report will address, we are running a series of twitter polls to accompany our online … Continue reading
Last chance to join the call for the new Education Crisis Platform to be adequately and sustainably financed
By Kolleen Bouchane, Their World Around the world, emergencies and protracted crises disrupted the education of 80 million children and adolescents in 2015. Despite this, education in emergency contexts received less than 2 percent of all humanitarian funding last year. … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Donors, Finance, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged conflict, finance
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Learning from former extremists
By Lynn Davies I met these other people, Muslims, and for some reason they saw something in me that I couldn’t see. They basically believed in me and they said that, ‘You can do more with yourself’. Interviewing former extremists … Continue reading
Do private schools need to be better regulated?
There are long-standing debates over whether offering the choice between private and public schools affects the equity and quality of education systems. With little regulation, private school expansion risks happening in an unplanned manner, with little government oversight and potentially … Continue reading
Is tying student results to teacher performance pay the best way to hold teachers to account?
Teachers around the world have a commitment to meet a range of learners’ needs, from engaging them in meaningful and relevant learning experiences and supporting their cognitive and social development to being responsible for their care and physical safety. They … Continue reading
Consultation now open for the 2017 GEM Report: Accountability in Education
The second in the GEM Report series will investigate, analyse and propose concrete recommendations related to accountability in education. A full concept note describing how the GEM will go about addressing the issue is now available. We invite all to share … Continue reading
Posted in Legislation, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability
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Gender bias is rife in textbooks
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the GEM Report and Catherine Jere, University of East Anglia Today, on International Women’s day, we are investigating the persistence of gender bias in textbooks, and reminding policy makers that until it is addressed girls’ … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Human rights, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, target 4.7
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Can mobile learning bridge the digital divide and learning gap?
ICT for learning may be a trendy and popular topic as a blog on this site last week discussed, but the fact remains that children from poorer households are less likely to have access to ICT both in and out-of-school. … Continue reading
Kenya’s primary schools (or those with electricity) to get laptops any time now
The government in Kenya is about to live up to its 2013 election pledge and deliver laptops to primary schools any day now, or, at least, to all primary schools with electricity… Kenya’s education system is in need of an … Continue reading
