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Learning crisis and girls’ education in Afghanistan
By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia A recent GEM Report blog based on WIDE data highlighted Afghanistan as one of “the bottom ten countries for girls’ education” in three dimensions: (i) mean … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Conflict, data, emergencies, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged afghanistan, Arab States, data, equity, Gender, girls, girls' education
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Coronavirus also has implications for data collection on education
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
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Benchmarks: the forgotten commitment for accelerating progress towards SDG 4
Time for a new year resolution By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report The Education 2030 Framework for Action called on countries to establish “appropriate intermediate benchmarks (e.g. for 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in data, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, education, education-2030, monitoring, SDG, SDG4
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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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Making evaluations work for education equality and inclusion
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
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Tell us what you think about inclusion in education
September is an important month for inclusion and education – the theme of the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report due for release next April. Later this month, the International Forum on Inclusion and Equity in Education is being held in … Continue reading
Posted in disability, Gender, Inclusion, migrant, migration, Uncategorized
Tagged #SDG 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, data, disability, Inclusion, indigenous, leave no one behind, migrants
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Turning the spotlight on those left behind to mark the first International Day of Education
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics On the first International Day of Education, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) … Continue reading
Posted in data, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, monitoring, monitoring sdg4
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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
Posted in data, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, literacy, monitoring, target 4.1
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Refugee education deserves higher priority in aid – but so do the data on it
Today at the UNICEF headquarters, as part of events marking the United Nations General Assembly week, a high-level meeting on action for refugee education is being co-led by UNHCR and Save the Children. It is giving prominence to the findings … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, data, monitoring, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged 2019 gem report, aid to education, data, migration, monitoring, refugee education, refugees, world humanitarian summit
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