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Category Archives: accountability
Could coronavirus shape the way assessments work forever?
Exams cancelled? This is the next wave of impact on education systems caused by the Coronavirus. The UK has cancelled its GCSE and A-Level exams. The CBSE board in India has cancelled exams for classes 10 and 12, national open … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, emergencies, Testing, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, emergencies, exams, out of school, Testing
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Private supplementary tutoring: a global phenomenon with far-reaching implications
By Mark Bray, Centre for International Research in Supplementary Tutoring (CIRIST), Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education, The University of Hong Kong. The GEM Report team is much to be applauded for focusing … Continue reading
Accountability in action in education in Jamaica
Last week, a meeting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of the Parliament in Jamaica called for officials at the Ministry of Education to appear before it to give an account of the Ministry’s operations. The reason for … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Governance, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, corruption, governance, government, Jamaica
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Education is not a privilege, it’s a legal right
By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education, UNESCO Education is like a seed. And for this empowering right to flourish and grow, it must have the best conditions. Education must not only be accessible to all, it must be … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, monitoring, right to education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged monitoring, right to education
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More testing?
By Manos Antoninis and William C. Smith This blog looks at the contrasting findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on Accountability and a recent study by Berbauer, Hanushek, and Woessmann over whether more testing is good for education or not. … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, teaching, Testing, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teaching, Testing
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Learning lessons from Uganda on transparent education reporting for the public
The 2017/8 GEM Report showed that national education monitoring reports are a vital tool for transparency and accountability in education yet only 21 out of 48 countries in the sub-Saharan region published an education monitoring report at least once since … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, monitoring, Uganda
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A national perspective on the Swiss education system
On June 19, Switzerland published the Swiss Education Report 2018. Fully in line with the GEM Report’s #MakeitPublic, campaign to ensure that all countries report back to their citizens on their progress in education, the new Report provides new analysis … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, monitoring, Switzerland
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Let’s not forget the role of parents in education!
Today is Global Day of Parents, named as such by the United Nations as a mark of appreciation for the commitment of parents towards their children. Let’s not forget, of course, that parents, extended families and communities are the first … Continue reading
Ending the practice of banning pregnant girls from schools
Though most countries have signed and ratified international treaties that uphold gender equality, this commitment is not always sufficiently clear where education is concerned. In many places, discriminatory practices that keep pregnant girls out of classrooms continue to exist. It … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, 2018 gender review blog series, accountability, gender. equality, pregnancy
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Using international accountability mechanisms: A test case for private education in Kenya
By Linda Oduor-Noah, a project manager at The East African Centre for Human Rights (EACHRights) on behalf of nine complainants who submitted a complaint through the complaint mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in April 2018. EACHRights is a … Continue reading
