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Tag Archives: Education for All
Missing from school: the education challenge in sub-Saharan Africa
Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Aaron Benavot, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report With the Eurozone in turmoil and sluggish economic growth in the US and elsewhere, investors may well see sub-Saharan Africa – … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Gender, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills, Testing, Uncategorized
Tagged basic education, education, Education for All, equality, Gender, learning, primary education, SDGs, sustainable development
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Reflections: The First Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board Meeting
By Baela Raza Jamil- Vice Chair GEM Report For two full days I was honoured to Chair the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report’s First Advisory Board meeting (June 2-3 2016). Jeff Sachs our luminary Chairperson was unable to attend due … Continue reading
Posted in Donors, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Education for All, GMR, post-2015, SDG, SDGs, UNESCO
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SDG4: More than the sum of its parts?
There are ten targets within the new global education goal that were negotiated at length to be part of a comprehensive, integrated and ambitious SDG agenda relevant to all countries. Yet, as many have mentioned, the 17 goals in the … Continue reading
Posted in mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Education for All, post-2015, SDGs
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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
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Democracy, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Sustainable development
Tagged adult illiteracy, Africa, aid, basic education, developing countries, education, Education for All, equality, equity, finance, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, quality, secondary education, skills, teachers, UNESCO, United Nations
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Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools
Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Arab States, Basic education, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers
Tagged #Target 4.5, #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, conflict, development, education, Education for All, finance, governance, humanitarian aid, learning, poverty, primary education, refugees
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Malawi: A shortage of teachers is putting children’s learning at risk
Esnart, from Malawi is the first participating teacher in our ten-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. She describes what it’s like teaching over 200 children under a tree, and explains how the huge shortage of trained teachers in the country is having detrimental … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Teachers, Training
Tagged #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, adult illiteracy, basic education, education, Education for All, illiteracy, literacy, post-2015, quality, target 4.1, target 4.c, teachers, teaching, training
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Share your views on the forthcoming 2015 EFA Global Monitoring Report
The 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) will review how much the EFA movement has contributed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults have benefited from the right to an education that meets their basic … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Innovative financing, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Skills, Teachers, technology, Youth
Tagged basic education, boys, developing countries, development, education, Education for All, Gender, girls, inequality, inequity, learning, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty, teaching
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Join our #TeacherTuesday campaign
Around the world, teachers work in conflict zones and urban slums, and in multigrade and multilingual classrooms that are often overcrowded. They experience the joy of seeing children learn and the frustration of trying to cope without the materials they … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Language, Latin America, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers
Tagged #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, education, Education for All, equality, equity, learning, post-2015, quality, target 4.c, teachers, teaching
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Let’s clarify the definition of aid to education so that it benefits the poorest
What is aid? Most people would agree with the dictionary that says aid is “material help given by one country to another” – and would expect aid to go to those most in need. But almost a fifth of what … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Equality, Equity, Finance, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework
Tagged aid, basic education, developing countries, donor, donors, education, Education for All, finance, financing, Global Monitoring Report, governance, post-2015, primary education
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Why girls’ education matters
With 31 million girls of primary school age out of school, and 17 million expected never to enter school at all, the situation for girls’ education desperately needs addressing. But why does it matter? This Friday is International Day of the Girl Child, where … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Employment, Environment, Equality, Equity, Gender, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Education for All, equality, equity, Gender, girls, post-2015, post2015
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