Publications

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted schooling for students globally and challenged how policy-makers might respond and recover from this protracted emergency. In collaboration with NEQMAP, the GEM Centre has conducted a rapid review of policy and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated pre-existing challenges that the region of South and South-East Asia have been facing in terms of access and quality of education, and it has negatively impacted the education landscape in an unprecedented manner and...

Designed as household-based assessments, citizen-led assessments (CLAs) are implemented by local organizations who assess children in their homes, thus reaching the most marginalized children, families, and communities, often in remote areas. CLAs add an...

The Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) is a platform for exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise on the monitoring of educational quality in countries and jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region. NEQMAP...

Emergencies and crises (e.g. natural disasters, conflicts, pandemics) often take a particularly heavy toll on education systems and learners, since the initial and immediate response is often school closures. Educational systems in the Asia-Pacific have...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education across the globe leading countries to adapt how they administer and manage high-stakes examinations and large-scale learning assessments. This thematic review describes the measures that countries have taken...

In their pledge to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, countries across the globe have turned their attention to improving quality education, which includes student learning assessments. For many countries, implementing learning assessments is...

Equitable Learning Assessments for Students with Disabilities (NEQMAP Thematic Review) In 2019, the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) conducted thematic reviews to promote inclusion and equity through quality learning...

In the Asia-Pacific region, many countries have national-level learning assessment systems, however, the performance of these systems varies widely. Challenges include organizational coordination, capacity, and effective use of results. It is with these...

UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education has been working on education quality under the name of ‘transversal competencies’ (TVC) since 2013. Many of these competencies have been included in national education policy and curricula of countries...