Tag Archives: #Target 4.5

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

Educating migrants will be the first SDG challenge for rich countries

Posted on 2 October 2015 by GEM Report

It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the arrival of so many hundreds of thousands of migrants* into Europe recently. According to Save the Children, this includes the highest number of child migrants seen since the end of … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, curriculum, immigration, Language, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, pedagogy, refugees, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, teaching | Tagged #Target 4.5, migrants, refugees | 4 Comments

Monitoring education inequality at the global level – how and what?

Posted on 23 September 2015 by Manos Antoninis

By Manos Antoninis and Marcos Delprato World leaders are preparing to put pen to paper this week to conclude years of negotiations. The most emblematic pledge is likely to be the statement in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development document … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, data, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged #Target 4.5, target 4.6, target 4.7 | 5 Comments

New statement on framing and measuring inequalities in education

Posted on 20 August 2015 by GEM Report

By Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. As reported in a previous series on this blog site, a two day workshop with 40 attendees was organized by … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity | Tagged #Target 4.5, disabilities | 10 Comments

Conflict exacerbates already existing inequalities

Posted on 25 June 2015 by GEM Report

The EFA GMR’s last report showed that only a third of countries had reached global education goals set in 2000, and identified conflict as one of the major barriers to achieving better results. A new paper out yesterday in time … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Equality, Gender, Human rights, Learning, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people | Tagged #Target 4.5, Target 4.a | Leave a comment

World Refugee Day and the lost generation

Posted on 20 June 2015 by GEM Report

One in 122 people worldwide is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, says UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released last Thursday. And given that 58% of all refugees are children, World Refugee Day is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Human rights, Poverty, Refugees and displaced people | Tagged #Target 4.5, finance, humanitarian aid, refugees | 13 Comments

World Education Forum declares: ‘no target met unless met for all’

Posted on 1 June 2015 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, previous director of the GMR, and now Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. First published on 26 May 2015 for The Conversation UK. Looking back at the World Education Forum, which drew more than 1,500 people … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Sustainable development | Tagged #Target 4.5 | 3 Comments

Does getting pregnant cause girls to drop out of school?

Posted on 7 May 2015 by GEM Report

By Stephanie Psaki, research associate focusing on girls education for the Population Council. Globally, “schoolgirl pregnancy” is cited as one of the primary barriers to girls’ education. In some cases – as in Sierra Leone currently – pregnant girls may be prohibited … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Youth | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

Measuring gender equality in education: A challenge for the Sustainable Development agenda

Posted on 27 March 2015 by GEM Report

By Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Joan Dejaeghere Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change, University of Minnesota. As we look to the post-2015 … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equity, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework | Tagged #Target 4.5, gender. equality | 6 Comments

Speaking a minority language should not mean being disadvantaged

Posted on 21 February 2015 by GEM Report

International Mother Language Day, observed since 1999 on 21 February, honours the world’s abundant cultural and linguistic diversity. The celebration draws attention to the significance of pluri-lingualism and the need for language preservation. For example, UNESCO’s Interactive Atlas of the World’s … Continue reading →