Category Archives: Disaster preparedness

Now this: vaccine requirements to go to university

Posted on 26 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog/ Read in Spanish The United States is trailblazing, as university after university is mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for students to be able to return to study this autumn. Rutgers was the first, but now at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, Health, tertiary education | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, Target 4.3, tertiary education | Leave a comment

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

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

Rural schools in France: how inclusive are they?

Posted on 17 November 2020 by GEM Report

English / Français By Jean-Luc Massalon, former school principal, coordinator of Localised Educational Inclusion Units (ULIS) with the collaboration of Daniel April (GEM Report, UNESCO) Inclusion doesn’t exist by default, it is only when someone is excluded that inclusion becomes … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children | Tagged access, out of school, rural schools | 2 Comments

What is the best pedagogy for managing the transition back to school ?

Posted on 28 September 2020 by GEM Report

By Le Thu Huong, Programme Specialist, Section of Education Policy at UNESCO Going to school is important for children, but it may be a daunting experience this year due to the pandemic. Returning after months of being locked-down and studying … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Health, pedagogy | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Health, pedagogy, policy, sanitation, Target 4.a | 3 Comments

Preparing for the new normal in Pakistan amid COVID 19 – A case for accelerated learning

Posted on 21 August 2020 by GEM Report

By Hamza Sarfraz, Policy Researcher and Zain ul Abidin, Programme Specialist at Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi Several months after it first hit globally, governments and experts across the world have now finally begun to register the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Education … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, Equity, Gender, Inclusion, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, girls, girls' education, Inclusion, Pakistan | 3 Comments

Digital capacities and distance education in times of coronavirus. Insights from Latin America

Posted on 12 May 2020 by GEM Report

By Nicolas Buchbinder, GEM Report Fellow Due to the coronavirus, schools have closed their doors in almost the entirety of Latin America. This is a situation with no precedent in the region. Countries have implemented different policies to continue the … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, STEM, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital divide, digital literacy skills, ICT, technology | 4 Comments

Back to school, back to normality? Dilemmas in high-income countries

Posted on 5 May 2020 by GEM Report

There seemed no doubt when schools closed earlier this year that closures were a necessary response to the pandemic. The question is whether that reasoning has sufficiently subsided for the opening of school doors to be again acceptable. If groups … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, emergencies, high-income, out of school | 3 Comments

TVET and skills development in the time of Covid-19

Posted on 28 April 2020 by GEM Report

By Paul Comyn, Senior Skills Specialist, ILO With less than 5 months since the first official reporting of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) case, we have almost arrived at a global paralysis of regular education and training provision. This unprecedented situation is … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, Skills, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, out of school, skills training, TVET | 6 Comments

Covid-19 school closures and the summer break

Posted on 24 April 2020 by GEM Report

The shift in emphasis in global education debates in recent years towards learning outcomes has been so strong that sometimes it seemed as if we no longer valued education access unless it led to learning. The reaction to school closures … Continue reading →