Tag Archives: SDG 4

Coronavirus also has implications for data collection on education

Posted on 26 March 2020 by GEM Report

Questions around Covid-19 and education arise in the short, medium and long term. Right now, it is important to understand how to support teachers, parents, and students to mitigate the impact of school closures, especially for the most vulnerable Later … Continue reading →

Posted in data, monitoring, Out-of-school children, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, data, monitoring, SDG 4, SDGs | 2 Comments

Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4

Posted on 24 January 2020 by GEM Report

To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading →

Posted in access, data, Equality, Equity, Finance, Learning, monitoring, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged access, equity, Finance, learning, monitoring, quality, SDG 4 | 3 Comments

Bringing the international education community together

Posted on 9 December 2019 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO As 2019 draws to a close and prompted by my colleague Julia Gillard’s recent blog, I would like to share my reflections on how to strengthen our collective action for accelerating progress … Continue reading →

Posted in sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged education, SDG, SDG 4, SDG4 | 1 Comment

Linking data to get results: India shows how countries can use their national assessments for global reporting

Posted on 18 November 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable

Posted on 6 November 2019 by GEM Report

By Andy Smart, Margaret Sinclair, Aaron Benavot, Jean Bernard, Colette Chabbott, S. Garnett Russell and James Williams Earlier this year, the UN Secretary-General reported that “the shift in development pathways to generate the transformation required to meet the Sustainable Development … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, sdgs, Sustainable development, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged afghanistan, curriculum, lebanon, SDG 4, target 4.7, teachers, teaching, textbooks | 2 Comments

The kids are not completing

Posted on 22 October 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Making evaluations work for education equality and inclusion

Posted on 19 September 2019 by GEM Report

By Karen Mundy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education International organizations typically have well-developed evaluation units, generating large volumes of evidence about their policies, programs and practices. Yet, while synthesis of evidence on international education development has evolved considerably in … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, data, equality, Inclusion, monitoring, SDG 4 | 2 Comments

The Wrong Way to Educate Girls

Posted on 30 July 2019 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis Getting girls into classrooms remains hugely important in some of the world’s poorest countries, and it can be achieved with targeted measures, say, to make their daily commute safer. But balanced school enrollment numbers are only the … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged #SDG 4.5, equity, Gender, gender. equality, SDG 4 | 4 Comments

Ethiopia is making the fastest progress in primary completion in sub-Saharan Africa. How?

Posted on 12 July 2019 by GEM Report

This week, we released new projections to 2030 for the global education goal, SDG 4, along with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). While not all projections can be drilled down to the country level, the completion rate projections can … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, monitoring, Primary school, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged ethiopia, high level political forum, HLPF, primary, primary education, SDG 4, SDGs | 8 Comments

Education has many links with other sectors

Posted on 10 July 2019 by GEM Report

The High-level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York has begun – the core moment in the global follow up and review mechanism of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Five goals are on the agenda this year, including SDG 4 for … Continue reading →