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Tag Archives: target 4.1
Linking data to get results: India shows how countries can use their national assessments for global reporting
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Professor Hrushikesh Senapaty, Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training of India (NCERT) The international reporting of learning outcomes is a critical but complex undertaking at the … Continue reading
Posted in data, Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, learning, learning outcomes, monitoring, SDG 4, target 4.1, Testing
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The kids are not completing
Why completion rates should be part of the SDG global indicator framework By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report The clock is ticking, with just over a … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, data, Learning, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged completion, data, learning, literacy, SDG 4, target 4.1
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Additional pay-outs to the poorest students announced in Thailand
In late 2018, it was announced that about 600,000 students considered to be ‘very poor’ will receive an extra $24 per semester by the Equitable Education Fund (EEF), created by the government . Inequalities are a concern and a recent … Continue reading
We are now ready to start monitoring early-grade learning
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Young learners have moved up the data agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4! The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and its partners have been pushing to upgrade SDG 4 … Continue reading
Posted in monitoring, Primary school, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged early-grade learning, monitoring, target 4.1
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It is time to upgrade the SDG 4 learning indicator for young children
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) We are on the cusp of a new phase in the global measurement of learning. For the first time, representatives of cross-national learning assessments have agreed on a set … Continue reading
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Tagged data, literacy, monitoring, target 4.1
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“Fulfilling one’s responsibilities”: Accountability and service to the people in Rwanda’s education system
This blog is written by Catherine A Honeyman, Senior Youth Workforce Specialist at World Learning and visiting Lecturer, Duke Center for International Development at Duke University. Catherine is also the author of a case study on accountability and education in Rwanda commissioned … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, country case study, rwanda, target 4.1, target 4.6
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Drafting guiding principles on state obligations concerning private schools: Lessons and strategic considerations from a rights perspective
By Tom Lowenthal, OxHRH Managing Editor and DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford As the Oxford Human Rights Hub’s course, Learning Lessons from Litigators, helps us to understand, children will not be educated by lawsuits alone: Just as there are tactics … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged human rights, private schools, RTE campaign, SDGs, target 4.1
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The Tanzanian President has just banned schools from taking any money from pupils
Free education? What does that really mean? Tanzania made secondary education free in 2015. But, as we know from several editions of the GEM Report, plenty of countries provide ‘free education’ and yet the cost of going to school is … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, Uncategorized
Tagged financing, secondary education, tanzania, target 4.1
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The importance of community volunteers to increase students’ learning outcomes: the case of Educate Girls in India
By Radhika Iyengar, Gita Johar, Lucia del Pilar Haro and Sarah Montgomery The idea of community members providing basic health services to local households has been in existence for 50 years. The health community has been effectively using Community Health … Continue reading
Inviting parents to hold teachers to account in Honduras
This blog is written by the GEM Report and Megan R Gavin, Ph.D, also author of a case study on accountability and education in Honduras commissioned for the 2017/8 GEM Report. The blog is part of a series showing that accountability in education is shaped by … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, country case study, parents, target 4.1
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