28 May 2025, 13:30-15:00 BST
Monitoring country-level efforts to promote learning equity requires the formulation of key indicators that measure equity in and through education, and connect with other sets of indicators that play an important role in shaping opportunity, such as wealth, gender, location, or health and well-being. These indicators can be accessed through various databases and information panels, such as the World Database on Inequality in Education (WIDE), the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM), the Gini Index applied to learning, and the Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (ERCE), among others.
This debate will review the strengths and limits of the data sets currently available and interrogate their capacity to drive policy change.