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International Day of Women and Girls in Science: We need frameworks, not patchworks, to plug the leaky pipeline

On 11 February, the world will be celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. There will be lots of articles and speeches about the famous “leaky pipeline”, a metaphor used to...
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08/02/2017
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The Role of the UIS in the New Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data

I welcome the launch of the Cape Town Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data, which was released today at the UN World Data Forum. The plan directly reflects the mandate, priorities and...
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18/01/2017
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Monitoring Reading and Writing to Help Children Climb the Ladder of Education

In his short story “Instructions to climb a ladder,” Julio Cortazar uses more than 380 words to explain an action that, you would think, requires no explanation at all. He writes, for example: “The...
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10/01/2017
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Are children learning? Two initiatives to monitor and help achieve SDG 4

Are children learning? Two initiatives to monitor and help achieve SDG 4

The successful achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals will depend in large part on our degree of success in delivering on Goal 4 on education. Education is "a fundamental right and the...
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22/12/2016
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UIS 15 years in Canada : The go-to source for internationally comparable data

The World Needs Better Data on Education – and Canada Can Help

This piece was first published by the Ottawa Citizen By Munir A. Sheikh, former Chief Statistician of Canada December brings the 15th anniversary of one of Canada’s best-kept secrets: the UNESCO...
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14/12/2016
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Education SDG Indicator on Learning Outcomes Gets a Major Upgrade

There has been an important shift in the global measurement of learning. The Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) has decided to ‘upgrade’ SDG Indicator 4....
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08/12/2016
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Good news for the Global Education 2030 Steering Committee

The members of the Global Education 2030 Steering Committee, gathering in Paris this week, have much to discuss, and also much to celebrate – particularly on the all-important data that will track...
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06/12/2016
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Helping Countries Measure Learning: Deeds, Not Words

Right now, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Indicators is meeting in Geneva to iron-out ways to resolve some of the technical glitches surrounding the indicators. The good...
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17/11/2016
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