Tag Archives: learning

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

Counting the cost of COVID-19 on learning in rural Kenya

Posted on 11 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education at Whizz Education Learning loss has floated into the lexicon of educators, as we reckon with the consequences of COVID-19 on students’ academic progress. It can be defined in multiple ways. At Whizz … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy | Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes | 1 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

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

Christophe: A COVID-19 learning hero for blind learners in Burkina Faso

Posted on 12 March 2021 by GEM Report

Christophe Oulé became blind when he was 43. “It did not happen immediately,” he said. “It took six months. At first, I felt useless. When I first knew, I told myself, a person who is blind has no access to … Continue reading →

Posted in disability, Inclusion, Learning | Tagged disability, Inclusion, inclusion champions, inclusive education, learning | 1 Comment

Innovations in the assessment of learning proficiency in Africa

Posted on 28 January 2021 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS); Hilaire Hounkpodoté, PASEC Coordinator; and Martin Gustafsson, Researcher, Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP), University of Stellenbosch The Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) indicators dealing with learning proficiency have … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, data, Learning | Tagged Africa, data, learning, learning outcomes | Leave a comment

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

A new comparable learning assessment designed in the Global South, For the Global South: Exploring the ICAN 2019 Findings

Posted on 10 July 2020 by GEM Report

By Ketan Verma, PAL Network and Hannah-May Wilson, Education Partnerships Group Ambika’s house was built with red bricks and a corrugated steel roof and had spectacularly clear views of the Himalayas. We visited her village to understand whether children went … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy, Uncategorized | Tagged assessments, learning, literacy, numeracy | 1 Comment

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 →