Category: SDGs

Weaving the future of education: Knowledge, partnerships and innovation for the SDGs – final reflections from UKFIET 2025 conference theme

by Rona Bronwin and Najme Kishani | Oct 15, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, SDGs

Imagine a world where every child has access to quality education, where learning is a joyful journey, and where communities are empowered to shape their own educational destinies. This vision often feels distant amidst global challenges. Yet, at the recent UKFIET 2025 conference in Oxford, a vibrant community of educators,… Read More

The Sustainable Development Goals – expectations of UKFIET conference theme convenors

by Rona Bronwin and Najme Kishani | Feb 26, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, SDGs

UKFIET conference theme of ‘The Sustainable Development Goals’ offers a vital space to reflect, challenge, and rethink how to accelerate progress towards achieving SDG 4 and how education can accelerate progress across the SDG agenda. We invite bold, innovative, and solutions-driven contributions that not only assess achievements and challenges but… Read More

Mobilising All Hands On Deck for SDG4: a practical guide for creating system change

by Aashti Zaidi Hai | Nov 25, 2024 | SDGs

The UNESCO GEM Report 21/22 urges us to consider all education actors as part of a single system. Building on this, the All Hands on Deck for SDG 4 Action Toolkit offers a practical, evidence-based guide to build more collaboration across education systems, based on global success stories in collaboration. Read More

Prioritising School Leadership: Reflections on the 2024 GEM Report

by Camila Pereira | Nov 13, 2024 | GEM Report

The launch of the 2024/5 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on leadership in education is a big occasion for organisations like Global School Leaders (GSL). Over the past eight years, GSL has been dedicated to strengthening school leadership across the Global South, advocating for school leadership as a central pillar… Read More

International Youth Day 2024

by UKFIET | Aug 12, 2024 | SDGs

International Youth Day is celebrated annually on 12 August, as a reminder of the significant role young people play in shaping a sustainable future. Read More

The GEM Report is more than just a report

by Manos Antoninis | Dec 4, 2023 | GEM Report

This blog was written by Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report team. The world is very different today than in 2001, when the decision was taken to...

Relevance, equity, scalability and sustainability: Lessons from the 2023 GEM Report on education in technology

by Manos Antoninis | Nov 21, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, GEM Report

Education technology generates passionate debate. Is technology leading the way for democracy by offering unfiltered access to all human intellectual output at the hit of a button; or does it pose a grave threat to democracy by offering unprecedented ability to a few people to control the content that reaches… Read More

Can solar power close the school electrification gap?

by GEM Report Team | Jul 27, 2023 | GEM Report, Learning

Electricity is a basic need for schools, but many do not even have that. Can solar power help? The 2023 GEM Report out this week on technology in education looks at the potential. Read More

New remote ECE model with large impacts holds promise for SDG 4.2 progress

by Kate Schwartz | Jul 26, 2023 | Early Childhood, SDGs

The last few decades have seen immense gains in global recognition of the critical importance of early childhood education (ECE). Despite this, the goal of universal ECE – as we have traditionally defined it – has remained aspirational: with little progress since 2015 toward the universal quality ECE called for… Read More

What makes an effective leader in education? Share your perspectives!

by UKFIET | Jul 3, 2023 | GEM Report, Learning

Share your perspective and take part in the online consultation for the 2024/5 GEM Report on leadership and education Read More

Learning about SDGs in Delhi schools through student magazines

by Himanshu Gupta and Shreyan Acharya | Nov 9, 2022 | SDGs

As India embraces “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” (the world is one family), awareness about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become important for students at the school level. A bi-annual e-magazine pilot project was initiated in 30 government-run schools in Delhi with the purpose of empowering students with knowledge and skills… Read More

Lessons learned from a North-South research partnership in Rwanda

by Lydie Shima and Emma Carter | Oct 18, 2022 | SDGs

The last two decades have seen an increase in Global South and Global North research partnerships. This has been motivated in part by the Sustainable Development Goals, which identify “Partnerships for the goals” as one of the most effective means through which to achieve their aims. Within the context of… Read More