Tag Archives: target 4.6

Have we underestimated the number of students affected by school closures?

Posted on 25 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics The COVID-19 pandemic has not only brought the loss of many lives and severe pressures on health systems, it has also had a severe and negative impact on livelihoods of disadvantaged people … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Out-of-school children | Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, learning, learning outcomes, out of school, out of school children, target 4.6 | 1 Comment

Cancel exams? What is an appropriate response to the COVID-19 disruption?

Posted on 13 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog ‘Dear Government, please remember before deciding between offline and online exams that we’ll be able to vote next year ;)’, tweeted several students in India last week. In recent days, ‘cancelboardexams2021’ has been trending on … Continue reading →

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Mission: Recovering Education 2021

Posted on 30 March 2021 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Robert Jenkins and Jaime Saavedra 🔊 Listen to this blog When your house is on fire, you don’t worry about how big it is, the colour of the paint on the walls, or whether the kitchen is … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Finance, Learning, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, learning, out of school, target 4.1, target 4.6, Target 4.a | 1 Comment

How will countries make up for lost learning during the pandemic?

Posted on 25 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog As one lockdown week morphs into another, the learning of millions of students continues to be disrupted. UNESCO figures show, on average, two-thirds of an academic year has been lost worldwide due to COVID-19 school closures. The learning loss is enormous. The … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Finance, Learning, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, curriculum, finance, financing, learning, target 4.1, target 4.6 | 1 Comment

South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment

Posted on 9 September 2020 by GEM Report

By Steffi Elizabeth Thomas, Senior Research Associate, Pratham Education Foundation-ASER Centre, India and Waqas Imran, Data Analyst, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan There has been a global shift in focus towards the quality of education under … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6 | 1 Comment

How can we stop language barriers holding back learning for people on the move?

Posted on 21 February 2020 by GEM Report

One in five students have a migrant background in OECD countries, resulting in multi-lingual / multi-cultural classrooms. Yet only half of immigrants receive language support in OECD countries on average. Arriving in a new country and suddenly sitting in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, Literacy, refugees, Uncategorized | Tagged Inclusion, language, literacy, mother-tongue, refugees, target 4.6 | 2 Comments

How much does it cost to achieve universal literacy?

Posted on 10 September 2019 by GEM Report

As events for International Literacy Day continue, new cost estimates have been produced by UNESCO showing that US$14 billion will be needed if the 20 countries with the lowest literacy rates, which are members of the Global Alliance for Literacy … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Literacy, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged adult literacy, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6, youth literacy | 2 Comments

About 15-40% of illiterate people come from households in which no member can read

Posted on 6 September 2019 by GEM Report

This International Literacy Day we want to draw attention to those living in households where no member can read – those we call ‘isolated illiterate individuals’ – whose chances of finding work and enjoying a good quality of life can … Continue reading →

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100 million young people are still illiterate

Posted on 7 September 2018 by GEM Report

This International Literacy Day there’s plenty to celebrate – the number of young people aged 15-24 with no literacy skills worldwide has fallen by 27% since 2000, a fact we hope to see reflected in plummeting adult literacy rates over … Continue reading →

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Literacy skills gaps: how do they change over time by wealth and by gender?

Posted on 10 May 2018 by GEM Report

While there is a focus internationally on measuring literacy and numeracy skills at age 15, as captured in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), at least two aspects are neglected in debates on learning achievement. First, literacy and … Continue reading →