Tag Archives: data

Visualizing education systems around the world

Posted on 14 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report and Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) was established in the 1970s and updated in 1997 and 2011 to categorize information on education systems … Continue reading →

Posted in data, monitoring, sdgs | Tagged data, monitoring | 1 Comment

Efforts to make disaggregated data available must continue in the Caribbean

Posted on 4 February 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish Nationally representative surveys that ask education-related and individual background questions in comparable ways over time are crucial for monitoring equity in education globally. Yet, 41% of countries, representing 13% of the population, have either not carried out … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Inclusion | Tagged Caribbean, data, Inclusion, inclusive education | 2 Comments

Innovations in the assessment of learning proficiency in Africa

Posted on 28 January 2021 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS); Hilaire Hounkpodoté, PASEC Coordinator; and Martin Gustafsson, Researcher, Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP), University of Stellenbosch The Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) indicators dealing with learning proficiency have … Continue reading →

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Learning crisis and girls’ education in Afghanistan

Posted on 9 April 2020 by GEM Report

By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia A recent GEM Report blog based on WIDE data highlighted Afghanistan as one of “the bottom ten countries for girls’ education” in three dimensions: (i) mean … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Conflict, data, emergencies, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged afghanistan, Arab States, data, equity, Gender, girls, girls' education | 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

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 →

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

Tell us what you think about inclusion in education

Posted on 4 September 2019 by GEM Report

September is an important month for inclusion and education – the theme of the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report due for release next April. Later this month, the International Forum on Inclusion and Equity in Education is being held in … Continue reading →