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Tag Archives: SDG4
Key takeaways from the 2017/8 GEM Report
The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring Report, Accountability in education: Meeting our commitments, fulfils its mandate to follow countries’ progress towards achieving the global education goal but also focuses on the theme of accountability in education. Why did we choose to … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, Report, SDG, SDG4
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Governments need to ensure rules are followed in education
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO No matter your job, you need standards to ensure that you are working to meet your objectives. Unfortunately, where education and schools are concerned, these standards sometimes do not … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, private schools, SDG4, SDGs
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Education at a Glance 2017: How is the OECD engaging with SDG 4?
The OECD flagship publication, Education at a Glance, has turned its attention to Sustainable Development Goal 4. This is important for confirming the universality of the agenda. But it also carries implications about how the OECD, as an organization representing … Continue reading
Two years down, 13 to go – Checking in on our progress towards the SDGs
Today, September 25th 2017, marks two years since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted. This momentous anniversary is an occasion for us all to make sure the SDGs remain high on the global agenda. It’s also a chance to … Continue reading
Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education
Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Aid, Donors, Finance, Innovative financing, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations
Tagged aid, donors, edcucation, finance, financing, funding, global fund, SDG, SDG4
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Poor quality learning assessments are crumbling under the weight of the decisions they inform
By Rachel Outhred, Education Consultant, Oxford Policy Management Much of the recent international discussion regarding the measurement of learning outcomes globally has been driven by the need to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 4 – ‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, assessment, funding, learning, SDG4
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Liberia’s children deserve the best education
By: Dr. Saaim W. Naame, Dean of Education at the University of Liberia. Over the last twenty years, the people of Africa’s first modern republic, Liberia, have been through two civil wars and a major virus epidemic. The wars caused … Continue reading
Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution
By Alina Lipcan and Ian MacAuslan Low levels of learning globally make for one of the most sobering statistics in education. In 12 out of 13 countries in South-Eastern Africa, fewer than 40% of students had mastered basic numeracy and basic … Continue reading
It’s important for regional organisations to support peer learning to help reach SDG4
There are multiple indicators that have been set to help monitor progress towards SDG 4. Most of these focus on results, such as completion rates, or learning outcomes. But such numbers do not tell the whole story, and to think … Continue reading
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Tagged monitoring, peer learning, SDG4, sdg4 steering committee
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The urgent need for investment in pre-primary education
By Pauline Rose and Ben Hewitt A child’s most important steps happen before they set foot in a primary school. Early childhood, from birth to age five, is the most critical developmental stage in a person’s life. By their fifth … Continue reading