Tag Archives: skills

From talking to creating jobs for Africa’s youth

Posted on 10 November 2017 by GEM Report

By John Mugo, Director of Youth and Talent, ZiziAfrique The inaugural Africa Talks Jobs (ATJ) conference has just ended at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. This was an African Union-European Union (AU-EU) bilateral conversation to highlight that 2017 … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged Africa, jobs, skills, skills training, Target 4.4, youth skills | 3 Comments

How can education help us rethink what we mean by prosperity?

Posted on 17 January 2017 by GEM Report

We need to reconceive what it means to prosper. The current prosperity enjoyed by pockets of people across the world has had a devastating impact on our natural environment and left too many people behind. Education is often held up … Continue reading →

Posted in Skills, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged davos, prosperity, skills, skills training, WEF | 2 Comments

National learning assessments: there’s more to gain than valuable data

Posted on 28 November 2016 by GEM Report

By Carmela Maria Salzano, International Development Consultant While the drive to benchmark global progress in improving education outcomes, and to increase the evidence-base for education policy making, has imbued the dialogue around monitoring SDG 4.1 with a strongly technical hue, … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Testing, Uncategorized | Tagged assessments, learning, SDG4, skills | 2 Comments

Target 4.4 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on skills for work?

Posted on 20 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship Global monitoring of skills for decent work is likely to prove elusive because of … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Gender, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged monitoring, monitoring sdg 4 blog series, SDG, SDG4, skills, skills training, Target 4.4 | 2 Comments

“Youth need to be the beneficiaries and the guardians of the future”

Posted on 7 September 2016 by GEM Report

The GEM Report will be holding the first ever digital youth launch of the 2016 GEM Report today at 2pm UCT. All are welcome. Please tune in to watch and ask questions during the digital launch from anywhere in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, united nations, Youth | Tagged development, education, skills, sustainable development, Target 4.4, young people, youth | 1 Comment

Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015

Posted on 15 April 2015 by GEM Report

Which Education for All goal needs a rethink? Which calls for us to try harder? Read and share the Report cards for each of the global education goals set in Dakar taken from the GMR 2015: Education for all 2000-2015: Achievements … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Democracy, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Sustainable development | Tagged adult illiteracy, Africa, aid, basic education, developing countries, education, Education for All, equality, equity, finance, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, quality, secondary education, skills, teachers, UNESCO, United Nations | 3 Comments

Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school by 2030

Posted on 6 October 2014 by Aaron Benavot

By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Literacy, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Rural areas, Teachers | Tagged Africa, development, education, learning, post-2015, quality, skills, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching | 3 Comments

New: Advocacy Toolkit for Teachers

Posted on 5 October 2014 by Kate Redman

Today is World Teachers Day. It is a day for teachers to speak their minds and describe the challenges and joys of their daily experiences in the classroom. It is also a day for policy makers to listen carefully to … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Literacy, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged advocacy, education, learning, lobbying, politics, quality, skills, target 4.c, teacher, teacher unions, teachers, union | 3 Comments

Youth is more than the theme of the day; it’s the theme of the decade

Posted on 12 August 2014 by GEM Report

On International Youth Day, this blog looks at the continued importance of keeping the spotlight on better skills development for young people. In 2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report analysed the youth skills gap and reported that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Equity, Literacy, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, Secondary school, Skills, Youth | Tagged education, employment, learning, skills, Target 4.4, unemployment, UNESCO, youth | 3 Comments

Life skills taught in school vital to reduce risk of HIV and AIDS

Posted on 29 November 2012 by Pauline Rose

Only 7% of school children in E & S Africa have desired level of knowledge on HIV and AIDS On World AIDS Day, new research conducted for the Global Monitoring Report ‘Youth and Skills: Putting education to work’ shows the importance … Continue reading →