Category Archives: monitoring

Prepared for the Future: A new indicator that combines completion with learning

Posted on 29 October 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español New global indicator will provide a simple, comprehensive measure of progress towards the education goal, SDG4. By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report The Sustainable Development Goal … Continue reading →

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South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment

Posted on 9 September 2020 by GEM Report

By Steffi Elizabeth Thomas, Senior Research Associate, Pratham Education Foundation-ASER Centre, India and Waqas Imran, Data Analyst, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan There has been a global shift in focus towards the quality of education under … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6 | Leave a comment

Introducing a new online tool: Profiles Enhancing Reviews in Education (PEER)

Posted on 24 June 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español Yesterday, along with the launch of the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education, we also launched a new website, PEER, to support the monitoring of national education laws and policies. It provides systematic, comprehensive information on … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, PEER | 2 Comments

Looking at school sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa on Hand Hygiene Day

Posted on 5 May 2020 by GEM Report

Hand hygiene is the one certain weapon we have against coronavirus. In high-income countries, as we wrote about this morning, multiple reports are emerging of teachers concerned that schools are going to re-open without sufficient hygiene management in place. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Health, Hygiene, sdg4.a | 1 Comment

Coronavirus also has implications for data collection on education

Posted on 26 March 2020 by GEM Report

Questions around Covid-19 and education arise in the short, medium and long term. Right now, it is important to understand how to support teachers, parents, and students to mitigate the impact of school closures, especially for the most vulnerable Later … Continue reading →

Posted in data, monitoring, Out-of-school children, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, data, monitoring, SDG 4, SDGs | 2 Comments

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

Benchmarks: the forgotten commitment for accelerating progress towards SDG 4

Posted on 19 December 2019 by GEM Report

Time for a new year resolution By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report The Education 2030 Framework for Action called on countries to establish “appropriate intermediate benchmarks (e.g. for 2020 … Continue reading →

Posted in data, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged data, education, education-2030, monitoring, SDG, SDG4 | 1 Comment

Linking data to get results: India shows how countries can use their national assessments for global reporting

Posted on 18 November 2019 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Professor Hrushikesh Senapaty, Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training of India (NCERT) The international reporting of learning outcomes is a critical but complex undertaking at the … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged data, learning, learning outcomes, monitoring, SDG 4, target 4.1, Testing | 2 Comments

The kids are not completing

Posted on 22 October 2019 by GEM Report

Why completion rates should be part of the SDG global indicator framework By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report The clock is ticking, with just over a … Continue reading →

Posted in Competition, data, Learning, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged completion, data, learning, literacy, SDG 4, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

Making evaluations work for education equality and inclusion

Posted on 19 September 2019 by GEM Report

By Karen Mundy, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education International organizations typically have well-developed evaluation units, generating large volumes of evidence about their policies, programs and practices. Yet, while synthesis of evidence on international education development has evolved considerably in … Continue reading →