Tag Archives: target 4.1

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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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

Additional pay-outs to the poorest students announced in Thailand

Posted on 15 February 2019 by GEM Report

In late 2018, it was announced that about 600,000 students considered to be ‘very poor’ will receive an extra $24 per semester by the Equitable Education Fund (EEF), created by the government . Inequalities are a concern and a recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged Finance, poverty, target 4.1 | 3 Comments

We are now ready to start monitoring early-grade learning

Posted on 7 November 2018 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Young learners have moved up the data agenda for Sustainable Development Goal 4! The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and its partners have been pushing to upgrade SDG 4 … Continue reading →

Posted in monitoring, Primary school, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged early-grade learning, monitoring, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

It is time to upgrade the SDG 4 learning indicator for young children

Posted on 16 October 2018 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) We are on the cusp of a new phase in the global measurement of learning. For the first time, representatives of cross-national learning assessments have agreed on a set … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged data, literacy, monitoring, target 4.1 | 7 Comments

“Fulfilling one’s responsibilities”: Accountability and service to the people in Rwanda’s education system

Posted on 8 February 2018 by GEM Report

This blog is written by Catherine A Honeyman, Senior Youth Workforce Specialist at World Learning and visiting Lecturer, Duke Center for International Development at Duke University. Catherine is also the author of a case study on accountability and education in Rwanda commissioned … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, country case study, rwanda, target 4.1, target 4.6 | 2 Comments

Drafting guiding principles on state obligations concerning private schools: Lessons and strategic considerations from a rights perspective

Posted on 22 January 2018 by GEM Report

By Tom Lowenthal, OxHRH Managing Editor and DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford As the Oxford Human Rights Hub’s course, Learning Lessons from Litigators, helps us to understand, children will not be educated by lawsuits alone: Just as there are tactics … Continue reading →

Posted in Human rights, private schools, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged human rights, private schools, RTE campaign, SDGs, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

The Tanzanian President has just banned schools from taking any money from pupils

Posted on 19 January 2018 by GEM Report

Free education? What does that really mean? Tanzania made secondary education free in 2015. But, as we know from several editions of the GEM Report, plenty of countries provide ‘free education’ and yet the cost of going to school is … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, Uncategorized | Tagged financing, secondary education, tanzania, target 4.1 | 1 Comment

The importance of community volunteers to increase students’ learning outcomes: the case of Educate Girls in India

Posted on 16 January 2018 by GEM Report

By Radhika Iyengar, Gita Johar, Lucia del Pilar Haro and Sarah Montgomery The idea of community members providing basic health services to local households has been in existence for 50 years. The health community has been effectively using Community Health … Continue reading →