Tag Archives: Target 4.4

How are donors helping to end the gender imbalance in science?

Posted on 11 February 2020 by GEM Report

Many countries, usually poorer ones, are still far even from the target of parity in primary and secondary education enrolment, let alone the more aspirational target of non-discrimination in all aspects of the education system. Girls’ education therefore remains a … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, STEM, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality, ICT, STEM, Target 4.4, technology | 3 Comments

What we do in Heraklion to accomplish integration through education

Posted on 6 December 2019 by GEM Report

By Nikolaos Angelakis, Deputy Mayor for Education, Longlife Learning and Youth Issues Heraklion, our city, aims to become a learning, smart, cohesive city – a meeting place of “5+1 cultures”. That’s why we have created “The Local Strategic Plan for … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged cities, Heraklion, Learning Cities, lifelong learning, migration, Target 4.4 | 1 Comment

How to respond to Apple’s renewed interest in education?

Posted on 30 April 2018 by GEM Report

As you may have heard, Apple has extended its reach into education, holding its first education product launch since 2012, and announcing a lower cost iPad aimed at students and teachers. The new iPad has a stylus pen, several new … Continue reading →

Posted in ICT, private sector, sdg, sdgs, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged ICT, ICT skills, private sector, Target 4.4, technology | 3 Comments

A global framework to measure digital literacy

Posted on 19 March 2018 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics From the cocoa farmer in Ghana using a mobile phone to market crops to the nurse in Sweden using telehealth … Continue reading →

Posted in digital literacy, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, STEM, Uncategorized | Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, edtech, monitoring, Target 4.4, technology | 6 Comments

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

DigComp: A framework helping young people to use their digital skills to find work

Posted on 19 July 2017 by GEM Report

Today, in an everyday digital world surrounded by videogames, smartphones, digital social networks and online chats, still 45% of the European Union population and 37% of its labour force have insufficient digital skills. Having digital skills is nowadays also relevant … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Developed countries, digital literacy, Employment, europe, ICT, Skills, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, education, europe, european commission, ICT, ICT skills, Target 4.4, youth employment, youth skills | Leave a comment

And the winners of our youth photo competition are…

Posted on 10 May 2017 by GEM Report

We’re delighted to announce the three winners of the youth photo competition we launched just over a month ago around the themes of Target 4.7 in the new global education goal. Selected from a huge amount of talented submissions, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, Climate change, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged global citizenship, SDG, sdg 4.7, sustainable development, Target 4.4 | 5 Comments

For Africa to achieve inclusive growth, it will need to learn how to get there

Posted on 4 May 2017 by GEM Report

The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa is taking place in Durban, South Africa this week under the theme ‘Achieving inclusive growth: responsive and responsible leadership’. The current prosperity enjoyed by pockets of people around the world – Africa included … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Economic growth, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Africa, economic growth, prosperity, south africa, Target 4.4, WEF | 1 Comment

Join our youth photo competition

Posted on 7 March 2017 by GEM Report

In September 2015, the member states of the United Nations agreed on a new sustainable development agenda with 17 goals to be achieved by 2030. These Sustainable Development Goals are the collective vision of the international community. They merge the … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged gender. equality, global citizenship, peace, sustainable development, Target 4.4, target 4.7 | 1 Comment

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 →