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Gender gap in primary school enrolment has halved over past 25 years

Posted on 6 March 2020 by GEM Report

Sunday is International Women’s Day. The year 2020 is also the 25-year anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing in 1995), which culminated with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key global policy document on gender … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls' education, target 4.5 | Leave a comment

Are private actors the solution to achieve SDG 4?

Posted on 26 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Dr. Maria Ron Balsera, ActionAid SDG 4 aims to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’, with the leading principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to ‘leave no one behind’. Yet, … Continue reading →

Posted in private schools, private sector, privatisation, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 GEM Report, private schools, private sector, privatisation, right to education, SDG4 | 1 Comment

Private sector participation in education: where it occurs, and why

Posted on 24 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Antoni Verger, Adrián Zancajo, Clara Fontdevila The privatization of basic education is a global phenomenon, growing in all corners of the world. As a pre-cursor to a larger discussion on this issue to be featured in the 2021 GEM … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 GEM Report, Finance, financing, private schools, private sector, privatisation | Leave a comment

How can we stop language barriers holding back learning for people on the move?

Posted on 21 February 2020 by GEM Report

One in five students have a migrant background in OECD countries, resulting in multi-lingual / multi-cultural classrooms. Yet only half of immigrants receive language support in OECD countries on average. Arriving in a new country and suddenly sitting in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, Literacy, refugees, Uncategorized | Tagged Inclusion, language, literacy, mother-tongue, refugees, target 4.6 | 2 Comments

Want your Digital Health Education Program to Work? Hire a Youth Designer

Posted on 20 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Mireille Sekamana, a junior designer from Kigali, Rwanda. She works with YLabs to design digital platforms that provide health education to empower young people in Rwanda. Mireille is taking part in the Switched On Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Reproductive health, sexuality education, Uncategorized | Tagged comprehensive sexuality education, Gender, gender. equality, rwanda, sexuality education, target 4.7 | Leave a comment

If we do not provide young people with quality sexuality education, the digital world will

Posted on 19 February 2020 by GEM Report

By: Joanna Herat, senior programme specialist for health and education at UNESCO, with expertise in comprehensive sexuality education, HIV, and school-related gender-based violence. Joanna is leading the team organizing the Switched On Symposium in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 February 2020, around … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, sexuality education, Uncategorized | Tagged comprehensive sexuality education, Gender, gender. equality, sexuality education, target 4.7 | 3 Comments

Private supplementary tutoring: a global phenomenon with far-reaching implications

Posted on 13 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Mark Bray, Centre for International Research in Supplementary Tutoring (CIRIST), Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education, The University of Hong Kong. The GEM Report team is much to be applauded for focusing … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Non-state actors, private sector, privatisation, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Finance, private education, private sector, private tutoring | 1 Comment

How are donors helping to end the gender imbalance in science?

Posted on 11 February 2020 by GEM Report

Many countries, usually poorer ones, are still far even from the target of parity in primary and secondary education enrolment, let alone the more aspirational target of non-discrimination in all aspects of the education system. Girls’ education therefore remains a … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, STEM, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality, ICT, STEM, Target 4.4, technology | 3 Comments

The consequences – and causes – of private school growth: a look at Nepal

Posted on 4 February 2020 by GEM Report

This blog by Priyadarshani Joshi, Senior Analyst, Global Education Monitoring Report, is the first of a series of blogs in the run up to the 2021 GEM Report on non-state actors in education Few issues have garnered as much policy … Continue reading →

Posted in private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized | Tagged 2021 GEM Report, nepal, private education, private schools, private sector, privatisation | 1 Comment

Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4

Posted on 24 January 2020 by GEM Report

To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading →