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Category Archives: Innovative financing
What role do foundations play in education?
How much are foundations investing in education and where? Who are the main beneficiaries and what difference are they making in education? These are just three of the questions that the GEM Report and the OECD Global Network of Foundations … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Finance, Innovative financing, Uncategorized
Tagged 2021 GEM Report, aid, aid to education, Finance, funding, philanthropy
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What is education worth? Should France be hiking its university fees for foreign students?
Recently, in France, not just the gilets jaunes have been protesting, but also students. Why? Foreign students have just been informed their fees are going to be lifted by around 11 times. The change will see international students who are … Continue reading
Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education
Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Aid, Donors, Finance, Innovative financing, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations
Tagged aid, donors, edcucation, finance, financing, funding, global fund, SDG, SDG4
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What matters for education reform? Lessons from the Partnership Schools for Liberia experiment and beyond
Engaging the private sector to overcome the learning crisis is all the rage in global education. This is giving rise to heated debates, as evident from responses to a paper just published on Liberia’s high-profile ‘Partnership Schools for Liberia’ (PSL) … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Innovative financing, private schools, private sector, Uncategorized
Tagged private schools, private sector, privatisation
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Do private schools need to be better regulated?
There are long-standing debates over whether offering the choice between private and public schools affects the equity and quality of education systems. With little regulation, private school expansion risks happening in an unplanned manner, with little government oversight and potentially … Continue reading
How we could triple the availability of textbooks
Our first new policy paper as the GEM Report is out today and shows how altering the textbook market to a more centralised finance model could take up to $3 off the price of each book. Combining this approach with … Continue reading
Are We Ready for the new Sustainable Development Goals?
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 aid, alice albright, development, financing, global development, global partnership for education, MDGs, Millennium Development Goals, SDGs, sustainable development
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Partnerships in education
Development partnerships in education have taken many forms, including our very own EFA Global Monitoring Report. Partnerships will be even more necessary if the sustainable development agenda is to be successfully implemented. It is for this reason that the OECD … Continue reading
Posted in Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Governance, Innovative financing, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development
Tagged development, education, financing, GPE, MDGs, partnerships, private sector, SDGs
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The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial efforts are stepped up
New estimates by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reveal that an annual US$22 billion external funding gap must be bridged if low and lower middle income countries are to achieve quality, universal pre-primary, primary and lower secondary … Continue reading
Share your views on the forthcoming 2015 EFA Global Monitoring Report
The 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) will review how much the EFA movement has contributed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults have benefited from the right to an education that meets their basic … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Innovative financing, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Skills, Teachers, technology, Youth
Tagged basic education, boys, developing countries, development, education, Education for All, Gender, girls, inequality, inequity, learning, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty, teaching
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