Tag Archives: #Target 4.5

Supporting vulnerable adolescent girls to continue their education should be prioritised in recovery plans for COVID-19

Posted on 18 June 2021 by GEM Report

By Kath Ford, Young Lives Substantial progress has been made in educating girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries over the last few decades. The 2020 GEM Gender Report estimated that 180 million more girls have enrolled in … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Gender, Inclusion | Tagged #Target 4.5, coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, equality, Gender, girls, girls' education | Leave a comment

Female science and mathematics teachers: Better than they think?

Posted on 3 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Dirk Hastedt (International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement), Justine Sass (UNESCO) and Matthias Eck (UNESCO) 🔊 Listen to this blog More urgently than ever before, more girls and women are needed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Teachers | Tagged #Target 4.5, girls' education, science, STEM, target 4.7, teaching | 1 Comment

New gender gaps are developing as a result of school closures

Posted on 8 March 2021 by GEM Report

Read in Spanish It is an entire year since lives have been disrupted worldwide due to COVID-19. School closures continue to impact more than 990 million students. UNESCO estimated that by the end of January, on average, schools had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 gender report, Gender, gender equality | 2 Comments

Son preference and girls’ education in India and Bangladesh

Posted on 8 March 2021 by GEM Report

By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Nazia Mansoor, lecturer, University of Paris, Dauphine (London), Teresa Randazzo, lecturer University of Venice Cà Foscari and Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics, University of Kent, UK. … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Inclusion, right to education | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender equality, Inclusion, right to education | Leave a comment

The challenges of achieving inclusive education for people with disabilities in Nicaragua

Posted on 16 December 2020 by GEM Report

By Indiana Fonseca y Katharina Pförtner, CBM Read in Spanish CBM partners practicing Community-Based Inclusive Development (CBD) and Inclusive Education, working with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education and representatives from Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs), were invited to present a background … Continue reading →

Posted in disability, Equality, Inclusion, Latin America | Tagged #Target 4.5, disability, education, Inclusion, latin america, nicaragua | Leave a comment

Private supplementary tutoring: a global phenomenon with far-reaching implications

Posted on 13 February 2020 by GEM Report

By Mark Bray, Centre for International Research in Supplementary Tutoring (CIRIST), Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, and UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education, The University of Hong Kong. The GEM Report team is much to be applauded for focusing … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Non-state actors, private sector, privatisation, Quality of education, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Finance, private education, private sector, private tutoring | 1 Comment

How are donors helping to end the gender imbalance in science?

Posted on 11 February 2020 by GEM Report

Many countries, usually poorer ones, are still far even from the target of parity in primary and secondary education enrolment, let alone the more aspirational target of non-discrimination in all aspects of the education system. Girls’ education therefore remains a … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, STEM, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality, ICT, STEM, Target 4.4, technology | 3 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

Has the approach to inclusion changed over the years?

Posted on 12 September 2019 by GEM Report

It is 25 years since the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education endorsed the approach of inclusive schools and argued that regular schools should accommodate all children, regardless of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Inclusion, LGBT, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, allmeansall, CRPD, incheon declaration, Inclusion, salamanca statement | Leave a comment

New photo competition on inclusion and education

Posted on 10 September 2019 by GEM Report

The 2020 GEM Report due out in April 2020 will cover inclusion in education, addressing all those at risk of exclusion from education because of gender, sexual orientation, displacement, migration, ethnicity, language, remoteness, poverty, disability or other characteristics. Pictures speak … Continue reading →