Category Archives: Millennium Development Goals

Save The Date: The 2017/8 GEM Report is due out 24 October, 2017

Posted on 9 August 2017 by

The GEM Report team is pleased to announce that the 2017/8 Report, ‘Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments’ will be released on October 24, 2017. We can also reveal the Report’s front cover, which shows a girl protesting outside her school. … Continue reading →

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Why have countries committed to development targets they might never reach?

Posted on 13 September 2016 by

It seems a strange decision for any country, let alone all, to sign up to a global commitment they know they will never reach. End Hunger? Eradicate poverty? Are these lofty goals really possible? In the next 15 years? Exactly … Continue reading →

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Missing from school: the education challenge in sub-Saharan Africa

Posted on 20 July 2016 by

Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Aaron Benavot, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report With the Eurozone in turmoil and sluggish economic growth in the US and elsewhere, investors may well see sub-Saharan Africa – … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Gender, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills, Testing, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Is tying student results to teacher performance pay the best way to hold teachers to account?

Posted on 24 March 2016 by

Teachers around the world have a commitment to meet a range of learners’ needs, from engaging them in meaningful and relevant learning experiences and supporting their cognitive and social development to being responsible for their care and physical safety. They … Continue reading →

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SDG4: More than the sum of its parts?

Posted on 29 February 2016 by

There are ten targets within the new global education goal that were negotiated at length to be part of a comprehensive, integrated and ambitious SDG agenda relevant to all countries. Yet, as many have mentioned, the 17 goals in the … Continue reading →

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Understanding context in Paraguay to promote gender equality

Posted on 5 November 2015 by

Yesterday we held a Paris launch for our new report: Gender and EFA 2000-2015: Achievements and challenges. It was well attended by Ministers of Education from Niger, Paraguay, Morocco and Sweden, by the US Ambassador to UNESCO and the Director … Continue reading →

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Education 2030 Framework for Action: let’s get started

Posted on 4 November 2015 by

by Aaron Benavot and Manos Antoninis The Education 2030 Framework for Action was adopted today in a high level meeting alongside the 38th UNESCO General Conference. What is this document and what does it mean for our work over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Finance, integrated development, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Report, sdg, sdgs | Tagged , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

A Data Revolution for Education 2030

Posted on 2 November 2015 by

By Jordan Naidoo, Director of Education at UNESCO, and Sylvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) is a global dream about quality education for all children, youth and adults. But this ambitious … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Learning, Literacy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, parity, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs | 7 Comments

Are We Ready for the new Sustainable Development Goals?

Posted on 22 September 2015 by

By Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Partnership for Education. This blog is part of a series of last minute reflections before a new education goal is set in stone.    For several years now, we in the development … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, Innovative financing, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Achieving the 2030 Education Goal by focusing on early learning

Posted on 21 September 2015 by

by Michelle Neuman, Program Director, Results for Development Institute. This blog is part of a series of last minute reflections before the new education agenda is set in stone.  A quarter of a century after global education leaders met in Jomtien, Thailand, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Literacy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged | 3 Comments