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Act now to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG4
English / Español 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 … Continue reading
Introducing a new online tool: Profiles Enhancing Reviews in Education (PEER)
English / Español 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, PEER
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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
Posted in data, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
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
Ethiopia is making the fastest progress in primary completion in sub-Saharan Africa. How?
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
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Education has many links with other sectors
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
Posted in monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged SDG, SDG 4, SDGs, sustainable development, sustainable development goals
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The world is off track to deliver on its education commitments by 2030
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Without a shift from ‘business as usual’, the world will miss its goal of a quality education for all by … Continue reading
