Tag Archives: Millennium Development Goals
Are We Ready for the new Sustainable Development Goals?
By Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Partnership for Education. This blog is part of a series of last minute reflections before a new education goal is set in stone. For several years now, we in the development … Continue reading
The Education Story for the Small Island Development States 2000-2015
This blog sums up a new Regional Overview of the EFA GMR 2015 for the Small Island Developing States. The overview was prepared to feed into the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers taking place this week in the Bahamas. … Continue reading
New proposed indicators to monitor the post-2015 education framework
By Albert Motivans, Head of Education Statistics, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Manos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The post-2015 sustainable development agenda, including the education goal, has received praise for its ambitious and universal … Continue reading
Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015
Which Education for All goal needs a rethink? Which calls for us to try harder? Read and share the Report cards for each of the global education goals set in Dakar taken from the GMR 2015: Education for all 2000-2015: Achievements … Continue reading
Was education progress faster after Dakar?
The freshly released GMR, “Education for All 2000-2015: achievements and challenges” shows that only a third of countries reached all of the measurable Education for All goals. Only half reached the most watched goal of universal primary education. While the … Continue reading
10 steps for solving the global learning crisis
Yesterday, at the Learning for All Symposium organised by the World Bank, global players came together to find some answers to two major questions: How can we solve the global learning crisis and how do we prepare young people for … Continue reading
Join the consultation on Teaching and Learning for Development
A learning crisis is leaving one in three primary school-aged children not achieving basic skills, whether they are in school or not. This revelation makes the theme of the 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Teaching and … Continue reading