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Big hopes for education, and yet more big targets at the World Humanitarian Summit

Posted on 11 February 2016 by GEM Report

The UN Secretary-General’s Report, One Humanity: Shared Responsibility, was released yesterday for the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul this May. It contains calls for reform in humanitarian aid architecture that could change lives for millions if taken at their word. … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Human rights, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, Target 4.a | 1 Comment

Books for Every Child: The Global Book Fund

Posted on 8 February 2016 by GEM Report

Penelope Bender, Learning Team Lead, USAID’s Office of Education (@penelopebender, @USAIDEducation) Despite the education sector’s longstanding call of “Education For All,”children in many countries are not learning to read and cannot read to learn. The right to education is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Finance, Language, Learning, Literacy, teaching, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged textbooks | 4 Comments

How we could triple the availability of textbooks

Posted on 19 January 2016 by Aaron Benavot

Our first new policy paper as the GEM Report is out today and shows how altering the textbook market to a more centralised finance model could take up to $3 off the price of each book. Combining this approach with … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, curriculum, Developing countries, Donors, Equity, Innovative financing, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged target 4.1, textbooks | 9 Comments

Join in: What’s the #EducationWeWant?

Posted on 7 January 2016 by GEM Report

It’s a new year, and we have a new name – The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report). To celebrate the change, we’re launching a new campaign using our logo as an interactive visual. We want to know which of … Continue reading →

Posted in Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged post-2015, SDG, SDGs, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, UN, United Nations | 5 Comments

Introducing our Spanish-Language World Education Blog/Blog de la Educación Mundial

Posted on 6 January 2016 by GEM Report

Today, we’re launching the “Blog de la Educación Mundial“ for our Spanish speaking audience with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as well as the concerns of Latin American policy makers, researchers and analysts. The new blog will containing … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

The GMR is now the GEM report: Global Education Monitoring Report

Posted on 5 January 2016 by GEM Report

It’s a new year, and we’re introducing our new name! As from today, we are formally becoming the GEM Report: the Global Education Monitoring Report. It is now officially ‘post-2015’ and a new set of international goals and targets are in place. … Continue reading →

Posted in Governance, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged branding, development, education, monitoring, review, UN, United Nations | 4 Comments

Tanzania abolishes secondary school fees. But does anything come for free?

Posted on 15 December 2015 by GEM Report

It is extremely good news to hear that the United Republic of Tanzania has cancelled school fees at the secondary level. This new policy aims to free families from any fees and contributions to education for 11 years of schooling. … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, Uncategorized | Tagged tanzania, target 4.1 | 21 Comments

A Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAL)

Posted on 4 December 2015 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, @montoya_sil @UNESCOstat No single organization can produce all of the data needed to monitor Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 – which covers a wide range of issues from learning outcomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.1 | 3 Comments

Girls continue to draw the short straw.

Posted on 12 October 2015 by Aaron Benavot

Today we are celebrating International Day of the Girl Child and are launching the Gender Summary from the GMR 2015. It shows, yet again, the extent to which girls face the greatest challenges in accessing basic education. The theme of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, parity, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality | 2 Comments

Achieving the 2030 Education Goal by focusing on early learning

Posted on 21 September 2015 by GEM Report

by Michelle Neuman, Program Director, Results for Development Institute. This blog is part of a series of last minute reflections before the new education agenda is set in stone. A quarter of a century after global education leaders met in Jomtien, Thailand, and … Continue reading →