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Three Steps to Help Policymakers Measure Equity in National Education Planning

As governments pursue Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education, with its strong focus on equity, are they embedding equity at the very heart of their national education plans? Recent...
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26/06/2018
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Five Principles to Guide Measuring of Equity in Learning

Only a few of us may not have heard the clarion cries for equity or equality in education, with politicians and others calling for ‘equitable education’ or ‘equality of opportunity’ or ‘equal...
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14/06/2018
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From Concept to Practice: Five Steps to Measure Education Equity

We know it is critical to measure equity in education: the fairness of education provision and quality of learning outcomes, as well as access to schooling, if we are to meet the global goals and...
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21/05/2018
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Strengthening Citizen-Led Assessment Data

As delegates gather for the World Bank South Asia Regional Workshop on Learning Assessment in New Delhi to share knowledge and learning on assessment practices in basic education in the South Asia...
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26/04/2018
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A Sound Investment: The Benefits of Large-Scale Learning Assessments

As delegates gather in New Delhi for the South Asia Regional Conference on Using Large-Scale Assessments to Improve Teaching and Learning, a new synthesis paper from the UIS makes the case for...
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25/04/2018
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The View from Madagascar: Data to Build Evidence-Based Policy

Reinforcing and deepening regional synergies in education will be at the forefront of the Pan-African High-Level Conference on Education (PACE 2018) in Nairobi from 25-27 April. The UNESCO Institute...
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23/04/2018
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Follow the Money: Tracking Education Spending to Reinforce Accountability

It’s Global Action Week for Education, with the focus firmly on accountability. As we all know, if we want to hold our decisionmakers to account, we must have good data. Without it, we have little...
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20/04/2018
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Why We Need Effective Education Management Information Systems

It may sound dry and dusty, but an education management information system (EMIS) lies at the very heart of efforts to monitor progress towards the world’s education goals, particularly Sustainable...
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10/04/2018
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