Tag Archives: out of school

Centuries of discrimination still run deep for Roma in Europe

Posted on 8 June 2021 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis, director Global Education Monitoring Report In the Roma settlement of Obiliq, on the outskirts of Pristina in Kosovo, people have little access to basic amenities like electricity and running water. Since the pandemic hit, schools have closed their … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Ethnicity, Inclusion | Tagged 2021 Eurasia, equality, Inclusion, inclusive education, out of school, target 4.1, target 4.7 | Leave a comment

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

COVID‑19 highlights an opportunity for out-of-school children

Posted on 14 May 2021 by GEM Report

The response of education during the pandemic has revealed the possibilities, both digital and non-digital, to reduce the number of out-of-school children, including those who were already excluded before the COVID‑19 crisis. By Wongani Grace Taulo, Suguru Mizunoya, Garen Avanesian, … Continue reading →

Posted in Out-of-school children | Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, out of school, target 4.1 | 1 Comment

Look after hidden out-of-school children in high income countries as schools reopen

Posted on 7 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog / Read in spanish Europe is one of the worst hit regions by COVID-19. Schools remain closed in many countries. New closures have been announced in the last few days across France, and many schools … Continue reading →

Posted in Marginalization, Out-of-school children | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, out of school, target 4.1 | 3 Comments

Don’t forget about those who were not in school before the pandemic

Posted on 2 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog By Andrew Christensen, Dr Carla Pezzulo , Professor Andy Tatem , Dr Victor Alegana and Omar Bakari, academics and practitioners working in education policy, disability rights, public health, and geospatial and data science School closures … Continue reading →

Posted in Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, out of school, out of school children, target 4.1, youth | 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

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

Les écoles rurales en France : les oubliées de l’inclusion ?

Posted on 17 November 2020 by GEM Report

English / Français Par Jean-Luc Massalon, ex-directeur d’école, coordinateur d’Unités localisées pour l’inclusion scolaire (ULIS) avec la collaboration de Daniel April (Rapport GEM, UNESCO) L’inclusion n’existe que par manquement ; ce n’est que parce qu’on a au préalable exclu que l’on peut … Continue reading →

Posted in access, emergencies, Out-of-school children | Tagged access, out of school, rural schools | 5 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

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 →