Category Archives: Quality of education

The world post-Covid-19 might be the world pre-Incheon – or even pre-Dakar

Posted on 20 May 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español By Sheldon Shaeffer, Chair, Board of Directors, Asia=Pacific Regional Network on Early Childhood (ARNEC) Post-Covid-19, the world will not be the same for a very long time. Life may be so different that there might not even … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Health, Inclusion, Quality of education, sdgs | Tagged coronavirus, covid19 | 5 Comments

Private supplementary tutoring: a global phenomenon with far-reaching implications

Posted on 13 February 2020 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in accountability, Non-state actors, private sector, privatisation, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Finance, private education, private sector, private tutoring | 1 Comment

Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4

Posted on 24 January 2020 by GEM Report

To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading →

Posted in access, data, Equality, Equity, Finance, Learning, monitoring, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged access, equity, Finance, learning, monitoring, quality, SDG 4 | 3 Comments

‘A good education can change anyone. A good teacher can change anything’

Posted on 5 October 2018 by GEM Report

This cliché emblazoned on chipped mugs in school staff rooms all over the world is impossible to refute. We all know teachers have the power to transform both individual lives, and the fortunes of nations. And, as the theme of … Continue reading →

Posted in pedagogy, Quality of education, refugees, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c, teachers, teaching | 11 Comments

Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR

Posted on 28 September 2017 by GEM Report

For the first time in forty years, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), released on Tuesday, focuses exclusively on education. We are pleased to see its core messages resonating so well with our past reports, especially the 2013/4 EFA … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged education, learning, Quality of education, world bank | 2 Comments

Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution

Posted on 17 July 2017 by GEM Report

By Alina Lipcan and Ian MacAuslan Low levels of learning globally make for one of the most sobering statistics in education. In 12 out of 13 countries in South-Eastern Africa, fewer than 40% of students had mastered basic numeracy and basic … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, private schools, private sector, privatisation, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged Bridge Academy, DFID, education, learning, private school, private schools, privatisation, quality education, SDG4 | 2 Comments

It’s a little bit early to celebrate International Literacy Day

Posted on 8 September 2016 by GEM Report

We have now officially moved from talking about whether someone is ‘literate’ or not, to discussing how proficient their literacy skills are. This is a significant step forward, which we should celebrate today – International Literacy Day. But we don’t yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Equity, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Quality of education, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged adult education, education, learning, lifelong learning, literacy, SDGs, sustainable development, target 4.6 | 4 Comments

Is overeducation a threat in Latin America?

Posted on 7 July 2016 by GEM Report

Dr. Raul Ramos is Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Researcher at the Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional, University of Barcelona, Spain. Fortunately, differences between countries with regard to the education levels of their population continues to decline very markedly. According … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment, Learning, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged education, learning, teaching, universities | 4 Comments

When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?

Posted on 23 June 2016 by GEM Report

By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Finance, Human rights, private schools, private sector, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged finance, private schools, target 4.1 | 1 Comment

Should school principals be held accountable for the quality of education? An Ethiopian perspective.

Posted on 1 June 2016 by GEM Report

The 2017 GEM Report will explore the successes and challenges to effective accountability in Education. While the online consultation is now officially closed, we welcome comments until the yearlong research period of the Report is over. This includes the following … Continue reading →