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Benchmarks: the forgotten commitment for accelerating progress towards SDG 4
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
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Bringing the international education community together
By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO As 2019 draws to a close and prompted by my colleague Julia Gillard’s recent blog, I would like to share my reflections on how to strengthen our collective action for accelerating progress … Continue reading
Parents and communities need to be engaged in migrant children’s education
by Anna d’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst at the GEM Report “We were blind, now our eyes have been opened … the educated children help us see. (Zahra, mother)” (Changezi and Biseth, 2011) Family and community involvement is key to overcome … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, Equity, Ethnicity, fragile states, immigrant, immigration, Inclusion, Inclussion, Marginalization, migrant, migration, peace, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged #SDG 4.5, #Target 4.5, conflict, education, intercultural education, migrant, migration
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Forgotten or ignored? Education gets no mention in the draft political statement for the UN High Level Political Forum
The zero draft of the political declaration of the High Level Political Forum (HLPF), taking place this year under the auspices of the General Assembly, has been released ahead of a consultation among UN Member States in New York today. … Continue reading
The GEM Report at CIES 2019
More than 2,500 education professionals will be in San Francisco next week for the 63rd Comparative and International Education Society’s conference under the theme ‘Education for Sustainability’. The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report is joining the crowd, taking part in … Continue reading
Posted in Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged cies, education, sustainable development
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Help us decide the future themes of the GEM Report
The spotlight on the GEM Report and the outreach activities rolled out globally after its release give a chance for its theme to shift the education agenda. The 2010 Report on marginalization brought equity into the limelight, for example. But … Continue reading
Helen Clark speaks of education’s ‘intrinsic and enabling value’
The third GEM Report Advisory Board meeting took place last week. The GEM Report was honoured to welcome Helen Clark as new Chair of the Advisory Board. Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Ms Clark was Administrator of the United Nations … Continue reading
Posted in sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Helen Clark, sustainable development, sustainable development goals
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A unique opportunity to design and deliver education for refugees
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly on behalf of a coalition of organisations working to support education for refugees including the Initiative on Child Rights in the Global Compacts, a coalition of 30 UN, civil society and philanthropic organisations that are working to … Continue reading
A postcard from this year’s Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference
By Will Smith, Senior policy analyst at the GEM Report The most unique aspect of the Comparative and International Education Society Annual (CIES) conference is the convergence of the global education community into a single location. It is a tremendous … Continue reading
Success in Dubai: Pushing ahead on SDG 4 data
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Jordan Naidoo, Director, Education 2030 Support and Coordination at UNESCO As we unpack our bags following last week’s meeting of the Technical Cooperation Group (TCG) in Dubai, it … Continue reading
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Tagged #Target 4.5, education, SDG4, sdg4 steering committee, SDGs, Target 4.3, target 4.7
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