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South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment
By Steffi Elizabeth Thomas, Senior Research Associate, Pratham Education Foundation-ASER Centre, India and Waqas Imran, Data Analyst, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan There has been a global shift in focus towards the quality of education under … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6
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Act now to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG4
Next week, finance ministers are being convened by the United Nations Secretary-General to look at financing in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. It is critical that they see education as key to the recovery from the effects of the … Continue reading
Introducing a new online tool: Profiles Enhancing Reviews in Education (PEER)
Yesterday, along with the launch of the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education, we also launched a new website, PEER, to support the monitoring of national education laws and policies. It provides systematic, comprehensive information on laws and policies … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, PEER
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The world post-Covid-19 might be the world pre-Incheon – or even pre-Dakar
By Sheldon Shaeffer, Chair, Board of Directors, Asia=Pacific Regional Network on Early Childhood (ARNEC) Post-Covid-19, the world will not be the same for a very long time. Life may be so different that there might not even be a post-Covid-19 … Continue reading
Posted in access, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Health, Inclusion, Quality of education, sdgs
Tagged coronavirus, covid19
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Looking at school sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa on Hand Hygiene Day
Hand hygiene is the one certain weapon we have against coronavirus. In high-income countries, as we wrote about this morning, multiple reports are emerging of teachers concerned that schools are going to re-open without sufficient hygiene management in place. In … Continue reading
Posted in Health, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Health, Hygiene, sdg4.a
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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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Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4
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
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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
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Tagged data, education, education-2030, monitoring, SDG, SDG4
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Consultation and call for contributions for the 2021 GEM Report on non-state actors in education
Few topics in education generate as much passion as the role of non-state actors. While everyone wants to achieve the goal of providing quality education for all, who delivers it, who is engaged, and how they are engaged is a … Continue reading
Bringing the international education community together
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