Category Archives: Youth
“Education is far too important to be left solely to the government or educational institutions”
“I believe that it is no longer enough for us to pay lip service to education; now is the time to insist on transparency and accountability in education,” said Victoria Ibiwoye, youth representative of the SDG Education 2030 Steering Committee … Continue reading
Learn more from our international youth ambassadors – Join our digital launch event
This afternoon at 4 PM (GMT), the GEM Report will host a digital launch event for the 2017/8 Youth Report. The digital launch will bring together some of the key youth ambassadors for the GEM Report #WhosAccountable campaign on the … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged accountability, right to education, youth
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GEM launches new campaign to help citizens claim their legal Right to Education
Although the majority of countries recognize the right to education through international and national law, the fulfilment of the right to education is far from being a reality. This is why we have launched a campaign to make sure the … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, human rights, right to education, youth
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Students play a vital role in holding governments to account for education
The youth version of the 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on accountability was released today. It contains a call to action in the form of a global campaign, #WhosAccountable, to support the enforcement of people’s right to education ahead … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, right to education, Target 4.3, youth
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DigComp: A framework helping young people to use their digital skills to find work
Today, in an everyday digital world surrounded by videogames, smartphones, digital social networks and online chats, still 45% of the European Union population and 37% of its labour force have insufficient digital skills. Having digital skills is nowadays also relevant … Continue reading
And the winners of our youth photo competition are…
We’re delighted to announce the three winners of the youth photo competition we launched just over a month ago around the themes of Target 4.7 in the new global education goal. Selected from a huge amount of talented submissions, the … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Climate change, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged global citizenship, SDG, sdg 4.7, sustainable development, Target 4.4
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Citizenship Education in Morocco: How civil society organizations can help
Elarbi Imad, President, Moroccan Center for Civic Education Recently, there has been growing interest in citizenship education across the world. With the rise of the Arab Spring there has been recognition within Morocco that citizenship education can help equip youth … Continue reading
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Tagged global citizenship, morocco, sdg 4.7, target 4.7, textbooks
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