Category Archives: technology

‘Cracking the code’ to end gender disparities in STEM

Posted on 1 September 2017 by

By Justine Sass, UNESCO Girls and women are significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions worldwide, a divide rooted in girls’ earliest days of socialization and schooling and one that a groundbreaking UNESCO report aims to address. … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, ICT, STEM, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Can mobile learning bridge the digital divide and learning gap?

Posted on 7 March 2016 by

ICT for learning may be a trendy and popular topic as a blog on this site last week discussed, but the fact remains that children from poorer households are less likely to have access to ICT both in and out-of-school. … Continue reading →

Posted in ICT, Learning, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged , | 8 Comments

When the challenge is teaching teachers English

Posted on 26 February 2016 by

Sarah Wiles is a communications specialist for Voluntary Services Overseas in Papua New Guinea, where she has been living for the past three years. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with over 850 … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Learning, Literacy, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, teaching, technology, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Books for Every Child: The Global Book Fund

Posted on 8 February 2016 by

Penelope Bender, Learning Team Lead, USAID’s Office of Education (@penelopebender, @USAIDEducation) Despite the education sector’s longstanding call of “Education For All,”children in many countries are not learning to read and cannot read to learn. The right to education is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Finance, Language, Learning, Literacy, teaching, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged | 4 Comments

Relevant data for education post-2015 need not be ‘big data’

Posted on 29 October 2014 by

With the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaching, planning for a new development agenda, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is taking shape. Concurrently, as the world embraces the notion of sustainability and sustainable development, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Developing countries, Governance, Post-2015 development framework, technology, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

BRICS: A new force on the international education stage

Posted on 22 September 2014 by

This blog by Elizabeth Fordham, Education Specialist, UNESCO, lays out the key findings of a new report looking at the changing balance of education power in the world as a result of the growing influence of the five major emerging … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Economic growth, Employment, Finance, Latin America, Quality of education, Skills, technology | 4 Comments

Bangladesh: Innovative solutions to improve education for the disadvantaged

Posted on 8 April 2014 by

Mosammat is the seventh participating teacher in our Teacher Tuesday campaign. Bangladesh is hit by flooding every monsoon season making access to school hard for those living in the affected areas. Mosammat describes what it is like teaching on a … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Disaster preparedness, Poverty, Teachers, technology, Training | 13 Comments