Category Archives: Youth

Literacy: Let’s listen to what adults want to learn

Posted on 5 September 2012 by EFA Editor

By Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia The fourth Education for All goal is to halve adult illiteracy between 2000 and 2015. How is the world faring? To mark International Literacy Day on September 8, we asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Literacy, Marginalization, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers, technology, Training, Youth | Tagged target 4.6 | 6 Comments

Education and jobs: hot topics for International Youth Day

Posted on 9 August 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

With one in eight young people out of work, education and employment are urgent topics of discussion for this year’s International Youth Day on August 12.. Education’s crucial role in providing young people with the skills they need for solid … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Youth | 2 Comments

Create jobs, yes – but give us the skills to do them

Posted on 18 June 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

It’s good that job creation is at the top of the agenda at the G20 summit in Mexico today. But young people need the right skills to do those jobs – and now they’re demanding that world leaders finally give … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Employment, Group of 20, Group of 8, Skills, Training, Youth | 12 Comments

Measuring and improving skills – the new ‘global currency’

Posted on 25 May 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

The OECD Skills Strategy, launched this week at the OECD Forum, underlines the importance of our focus on the marginalized in the forthcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, on youth, skills and work. While those who are in … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Youth | 5 Comments

Africa Progress Report calls for big push on education

Posted on 14 May 2012 by EFA Editor

Urgent action is needed to tackle a “twin crisis” in access to education and the quality of teaching, according to the 2012 Africa Progress Report, Jobs, Justice and Equity: Seizing Opportunities in Times of Global Change, which was launched on … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Skills, Training, Youth | 3 Comments

BRIEFLY: Skills for work on the agenda in Shanghai

Posted on 11 May 2012 by EFA Editor

With high youth unemployment making headlines around the world, it is more crucial than ever to give young people a chance to learn the skills that employers need. Policy makers and education specialists from around the world will tackle these issues … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Equity, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Youth | 3 Comments

Art contest winner announced

Posted on 10 May 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

We are proud to announce that the winner of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report art contest is Khalid Mohamed Hammad Elkhateem, 23, from Sudan, whose entry “In the middle of nowhere” is shown here. We asked young … Continue reading →

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More children are in school – but are they learning?

Posted on 30 April 2012 by EFA Editor

By Susan Davis, president and chief executive, BRAC USA With the Education for All goals and the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015 on our minds, perhaps it’s time to start thinking about measurements of educational quality, rather than … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Employment, Equality, Equity, Gender, Innovative financing, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Youth | 5 Comments

Without skills, no lasting spring for Arab youth

Posted on 21 March 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

Arab countries must provide the right skills for their large youth population if the Arab Spring is to have lasting effects, according to the 2010/2011 Arab Knowledge Report, a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme and the Mohammed bin … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Governance, Literacy, Secondary school, Skills, Training, Youth | Tagged Target 4.4 | 1 Comment

BRIEFLY: In Nairobi, a focus on decent jobs and better lives

Posted on 16 March 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

Since Thursday, young people from across the globe have been meeting with senior leaders from the UN, governments and civil society in Nairobi at the Youth 21 Building for Change conference. The gathering aims to find better ways of engaging … Continue reading →