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E-Newsletter Education for All
in Latin America and the Caribbean

N° 16, May 2014

Top story:
Global learning crisis is costing $129 billion a year

The 11th Education for All Global Monitoring Report revealed at the end of January 2014 that a global learning crisis is costing governments $129 billion a year. More

: Photo: UNESCO/Carolina Jerez

1, 2, 3, 4 questions for Beatrice Avalos

: Photo: UNESCO/Andres Pascoe

Beatrice Avalos (Chile) is a professor of education, one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Education Research Programme (PIIE). Coming from an extensive background in university teaching and research in Chile, Europe and Oceania, her lifelong work related particularly to teacher professionalization policies won her the Chilean National Education Prize in 2013.

She is currently working as a researcher and director at the Millennium Cluster on the Teaching Profession in Chile, based at the Universidad de Chile’s Centre for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE), and is part of the Regional Strategic Project on Teachers, spearheaded by the Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean. More

Did you know?

Gender Summary turns spotlight on girls’ education

Over 100 million young women in low and lower middle income countries are unable to read a single sentence. And 31 million girls are out of school, with half of them unlikely ever to set foot inside a classroom.

Educational assessment in four new publications of UNESCO Santiago

Curriculum analysis, factors associated with learning achievement, analysis of school climate and the most recent information on education policies in some countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are the focus of four publications edited by the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago).

Increasing tax revenues by tackling tax avoidance could help fill the education finance gap, says UNESCO

Better management of tax and prioritization of education could raise $153 billion for education in 2015

Highlights

Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru come together in education sector risk management

Amidst news of the earthquake that struck the coast of northern Chile and southern Peru on 1 April, 2014, government education sector disaster risk management personnel and specialists from Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru met in the Peruvian capital on 2 and 3 April to share experiences.

Earthquake and tsunami in Chile: Effective regional cooperation and preparedness save lives
Disaster preparedness and mitigation strategies are bearing their fruits. Local populations are well prepared; regional cooperation is effective; warning and response mechanisms are efficient. The situation has improved greatly since the 27 February 2010 tsunami that impacted Chile.

Newsletter "More education, less risk"
-N°1, February 2014
Newsletter of the Project Disaster Risk Reduction through education and science in Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru (2013-2014), within the framework of Disaster Preparedness Programme, 2013-2014 Action Plan for South America, European Commission.