Tag Archives: data

Learning crisis and girls’ education in Afghanistan

Posted on 9 April 2020 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Coronavirus also has implications for data collection on education

Posted on 26 March 2020 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Benchmarks: the forgotten commitment for accelerating progress towards SDG 4

Posted on 19 December 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Linking data to get results: India shows how countries can use their national assessments for global reporting

Posted on 18 November 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

The kids are not completing

Posted on 22 October 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Making evaluations work for education equality and inclusion

Posted on 19 September 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Tell us what you think about inclusion in education

Posted on 4 September 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Turning the spotlight on those left behind to mark the first International Day of Education

Posted on 24 January 2019 by GEM Report

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 | 4 Comments

It is time to upgrade the SDG 4 learning indicator for young children

Posted on 16 October 2018 by GEM Report

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 | 7 Comments

Refugee education deserves higher priority in aid – but so do the data on it

Posted on 26 September 2018 by GEM Report

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 →