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Tag Archives: learning
How to help people love learning
By Muhammad Usman, Pakistan, a 2016 PAL Network Fellow, and ASER Pakistan’s Data Analyst We listen to the same music. We watch the same movies. We eat the same food. We farm the same land. We speak the same language. … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Literacy, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, literacy, reading
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Is overeducation a threat in Latin America?
Dr. Raul Ramos is Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Researcher at the Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional, University of Barcelona, Spain. Fortunately, differences between countries with regard to the education levels of their population continues to decline very markedly. According … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Learning, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, teaching, universities
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The Arguments and Evidence behind Public-Private Partnerships in Education
By Donald Baum, Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Brigham Young University Over the last few months, Liberia has become the site of and source for significant debate over its decision to initiate a large scale public-private partnership (PPP) … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Finance, private schools, private sector, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, private education, private schools, private sector
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Pakistan: Children in primary schools should be taught in their mother tongue
By Bushra Rahim, PhD student. “If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would not be we, we would be clones of an alien people; we would be aliens to ourselves” (UNESCO, The Use of Vernacular Languages … Continue reading
Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school by 2030
By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Literacy, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Rural areas, Teachers
Tagged Africa, development, education, learning, post-2015, quality, skills, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching
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Youth is more than the theme of the day; it’s the theme of the decade
On International Youth Day, this blog looks at the continued importance of keeping the spotlight on better skills development for young people. In 2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report analysed the youth skills gap and reported that it … Continue reading
10 steps for solving the global learning crisis
Yesterday, at the Learning for All Symposium organised by the World Bank, global players came together to find some answers to two major questions: How can we solve the global learning crisis and how do we prepare young people for … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Learning, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education
Tagged basic education, developing countries, education, learning, literacy, Millennium Development Goals, out of school children, post-2015, quality, quality for all
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Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools
Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Arab States, Basic education, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers
Tagged #Target 4.5, #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, conflict, development, education, Education for All, finance, governance, humanitarian aid, learning, poverty, primary education, refugees
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Share your views on the forthcoming 2015 EFA Global Monitoring Report
The 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) will review how much the EFA movement has contributed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults have benefited from the right to an education that meets their basic … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Innovative financing, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Skills, Teachers, technology, Youth
Tagged basic education, boys, developing countries, development, education, Education for All, Gender, girls, inequality, inequity, learning, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty, teaching
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