Tag Archives: finance

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

Gender bias can be seen in the way families spend their money on education

Posted on 15 March 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog The black box of who controls and who decides how a family’s monetary and other resources will be spent has long intrigued social scientists. Gender bias in such decisions can negatively affect spending on health … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Gender | Tagged finance, financing, Gender, gender equality, household spending | 3 Comments

Two-thirds of poorer countries are cutting education budgets due to COVID-19

Posted on 22 February 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish Education budgets are not adjusting proportionately to the challenges brought about by COVID-19, especially in poorer countries. Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have, in fact, cut their public education budgets since the … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance | Tagged budgets, coronavirus, covid19, Education Finance Watch, finance, financing | 1 Comment

COVID-19 has prompted countries to adjust and rethink financing for equity in education

Posted on 1 February 2021 by GEM Report

It has become commonplace to acknowledge that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the inequalities that pre-existed in education systems and has opened new rifts. We also know that education may be increasingly capturing the media headlines but not finance ministers’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Finance | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, finance, financing | 3 Comments

Time to roll out education’s recovery package

Posted on 25 January 2021 by GEM Report

By Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO Humanity likes clear cut resolutions to crises and flees uncertainty. As the new year begins, the world has neither – the pandemic is resurging, vaccination campaigns are still in their infancy, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equity, Finance | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, finance, financing, out of school | 2 Comments

Unlocking financing for equity in education

Posted on 25 January 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish SDG 4 includes neither a target nor a global indicator on the level of education financing. Yet, if countries are to achieve the goal of ‘inclusive and equitable’ education by 2030, they need to spend their budgets, … Continue reading →

Posted in Equity, Finance, Innovative financing | Tagged equity, finance, financing, funding | 4 Comments

What next for the Global Partnership for Education after a transformative replenishment?

Posted on 9 February 2018 by GEM Report

By David Archer The Global Partnership for Education replenishment event, co-hosted by President Macron and President Macky Sall on 2nd February in Senegal, was a landmark moment for education financing. Over $2 billion were pledged by donors for the GPE’s … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Donors, Finance, right to education, Uncategorized | Tagged donors, finance, funding, global partnership for education | 4 Comments

Raising billions of dollars for education in Dakar

Posted on 5 February 2018 by GEM Report

With the curtains of the third Financing Conference of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in Dakar, Senegal now closed, it is important to remember the context in which it was organized. During the first half of this decade, aid … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, finance, financing, global partnership for education | 1 Comment

#FeesMustFall: Developments in South African Fees Struggles

Posted on 19 December 2017 by GEM Report

by Dylan Barry, a post-graduate physics student at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He headed up the #FeesMustFall News Media task team in 2015, and the #FeesMustFall Economic Research task team in 2016 at the University of … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Equality, Post-secondary education, tertiary education | Tagged finance, RTE campaign, south africa, Target 4.3 | Leave a comment

Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education

Posted on 20 September 2017 by GEM Report

Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading →