Category Archives: sdgs

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

Climate strikes by school children, which erupted in 2019, continue

Posted on 18 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog In the middle of the pandemic, the world’s youth has not lost its focus on the planet’s biggest challenge. School children in Germany are setting up a political party, Klimaliste, standing in local elections. The party … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Disaster preparedness, Environment, sdg, sdgs, Youth | Tagged climate change, Environment, target 4.7 | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in data, Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs | Tagged learning, learning outcomes, SDG4, target 4.1 | Leave a 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

Act now to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG4

Posted on 4 September 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español Next week, finance ministers are being convened by the United Nations Secretary-General to look at financing in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. It is critical that they see education as key to the recovery from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, sdg, sdgs | Tagged covid19 | 4 Comments

Introducing a new online tool: Profiles Enhancing Reviews in Education (PEER)

Posted on 24 June 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español Yesterday, along with the launch of the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education, we also launched a new website, PEER, to support the monitoring of national education laws and policies. It provides systematic, comprehensive information on … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, PEER | 2 Comments

The world post-Covid-19 might be the world pre-Incheon – or even pre-Dakar

Posted on 20 May 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español By Sheldon Shaeffer, Chair, Board of Directors, Asia=Pacific Regional Network on Early Childhood (ARNEC) Post-Covid-19, the world will not be the same for a very long time. Life may be so different that there might not even … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Health, Inclusion, Quality of education, sdgs | Tagged coronavirus, covid19 | 5 Comments

Looking at school sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa on Hand Hygiene Day

Posted on 5 May 2020 by GEM Report

Hand hygiene is the one certain weapon we have against coronavirus. In high-income countries, as we wrote about this morning, multiple reports are emerging of teachers concerned that schools are going to re-open without sufficient hygiene management in place. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Health, Hygiene, sdg4.a | 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

Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4

Posted on 24 January 2020 by GEM Report

To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading →