Tag Archives: equality

Drawing links between economic status and education outcomes from ASER 2019

Posted on 27 March 2020 by GEM Report

By M. Afzan Munir Economic well-being affects a child’s education achievement in multiple ways. Studies have shown that a family’s socioeconomic status positively contributes not only towards a child’s educational attainment, but towards their academic performance as well. ASER Pakistan … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Finance, Inclusion, Non-state actors, Uncategorized | Tagged equal education, equality, equity, Finance, Inclusion, Non-state actors, Pakistan | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, data, equality, Inclusion, monitoring, SDG 4 | 2 Comments

Learning InEquality: An equality law approach to Education for All

Posted on 26 March 2018 by GEM Report

Camilla Alonzo, Legal and Programmes Officer, Equal Rights Trust, an independent international organisation whose objective is to combat discrimination and advance equality as a fundamental human rights and a basic principle of social justice The statistics regarding the number of … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Inclusion, right to education, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged access, equality, Inclusion, inequality | 2 Comments

Highlights from the 2018 Gender Review launch in New York

Posted on 9 March 2018 by GEM Report

“Young women aren’t the changemakers of the future, they are the here and now” said GenUN Fellow, Rabita Tareque to a room of civil society representatives, teachers, policy makers, academics and donors at Thursday’s global launch of the Global Education … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, equality, equity, Gender, parity, target 4.7 | 1 Comment

Having a disability shouldn’t affect your access to education

Posted on 1 December 2017 by GEM Report

Everyone has the right to education but for some people accessing this education is far harder than it should be. Marking December 3, which is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are focusing on some of the barriers … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Human rights, Inclusion, legal rights, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, disability, equality, equity, Inclusion, inclusive education, inequality | Leave a comment

Who is responsible for ensuring gender equality in education?

Posted on 14 September 2017 by GEM Report

Problems require solutions, which requires knowing who is responsible for fixing them, and having clear steps to address the issue. This is the meaning of accountability. A longstanding issue like gender inequality, therefore, is one for which accountability is clearly … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, equality, equity, Gender, gender. equality | Leave a comment

Peru has a new ‘rose-tinted’ curriculum

Posted on 8 March 2017 by GEM Report

The UN congratulated Peru last week for its new education curriculum, in effect since the 1st January this year, which aims to improve gender equality. The change has been long needed, as is the case for many other countries in … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Gender, Latin America, parity, pedagogy, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, curriculum, equality, equity, Gender, target 4.7, textbooks | 1 Comment

The poorest young women have spent less than a year in school in the bottom ten countries

Posted on 6 March 2017 by GEM Report

It’s International Women’s Day this week. As people in different cities rally for gender equality, not enough changes are being made to help the poorest girls pick themselves up from the bottom of the education ladder in many parts of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, parity, Uncategorized | Tagged equality, female education, Gender, Pakistan, SDGs, somalia, Sudan, United Nations | 1 Comment

We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools

Posted on 16 January 2017 by GEM Report

Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged books, equality, Gender, teaching, textbooks | 1 Comment

Target 4.5 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on equity in education?

Posted on 18 October 2016 by GEM Report

4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations While there is progress toward monitoring … Continue reading →