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What next for the Global Partnership for Education after a transformative replenishment?

Posted on 9 February 2018 by

By David Archer The Global Partnership for Education replenishment event, co-hosted by President Macron and President Macky Sall on 2nd February in Senegal, was a landmark moment for education financing. Over $2 billion were pledged by donors for the GPE’s … Continue reading →

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Raising billions of dollars for education in Dakar

Posted on 5 February 2018 by

With the curtains of the third Financing Conference of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in Dakar, Senegal now closed, it is important to remember the context in which it was organized. During the first half of this decade, aid … Continue reading →

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#FeesMustFall: Developments in South African Fees Struggles

Posted on 19 December 2017 by

by Dylan Barry, a post-graduate physics student at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He headed up the #FeesMustFall News Media task team in 2015, and the #FeesMustFall Economic Research task team in 2016 at the University of … Continue reading →

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Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education

Posted on 20 September 2017 by

Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading →

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Making space for more and better aid to education

Posted on 9 June 2017 by

By Keith M Lewin The latest policy paper from the GEM Report provides a stark reminder that trends in aid to education mean there is still a long journey to travel to deliver access to quality education for all. Aid … Continue reading →

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The share of aid allocated to education has fallen for the sixth year in a row

Posted on 6 June 2017 by

A new GEM Report policy paper, Aid to education is stagnating and not going to countries most in need, shows that the amount of aid allocated to education has been falling for six years in a row. Donors are turning … Continue reading →

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When will they ever learn?

Posted on 12 May 2017 by

By Ben Hewitt, Director of Campaigns and Communications at Theirworld Denying a child an education does not happen by accident. It is the end result of policy and funding choices made by individuals in positions of power. It is up … Continue reading →

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When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?

Posted on 23 June 2016 by

By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading →

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Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education

Posted on 30 May 2016 by

The recent policy paper by the GEM Report containing the data on 2014 aid spending shows that, for several years, aid to education has been stuck not only at a level far below what is needed but even below levels … Continue reading →

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Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage

Posted on 23 May 2016 by

The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading →

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