By Dr Sharon Tao, Gender and Inclusion Adviser for Cambridge Education and UKFIET Executive Committee member. This blog was originally written for UNICEF and posted on 16 April 2018. Reposted with permission. UNICEF has commissioned 10 papers by leading researchers and practitioners to stimulate debate around educational challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: a region […]
This blog was written by Roy Carr-Hill. It has often been lamented that girls are more likely to drop out (for example, because of gender preference by the parents, pregnancy or danger among many other postulated factors), or perform worse than boys. To help with measuring drop-out rates, UNESCO introduced the Gender Parity Index, which […]
This blog was written by Elizabeth Tofaris, University of Cambridge, on behalf of the the Impact Initiative for international development research. The Impact Initiative seeks to connect policymakers and practitioners with the world-class social science research supported by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership, maximising the uptake and impact of research from: (i) the Joint Fund for […]
This blog was written by Esme Kadzamira, Centre for Educational Research and Training, University of Malawi. I was privileged to attend the London launch of the 2018 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Gender Review on 8th March 2018. The panel discussion, involving a number of key players from UNESCO GEM Report team, Malala Fund, Relief […]
This blog was originally posted on World Education Blog on 14 September 2017. Re-posted with permission. Problems require solutions, which requires knowing who is responsible for fixing them, and having clear steps to address the issue. This is the meaning of accountability. A longstanding issue like gender inequality, therefore, is one for which accountability is clearly […]
