This blog was written by Catherine M. Jere, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, in response to the launch of the GEM Gender Report on 5th July 2019. The latest in the series of Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Gender Reports was launched at the G7 France – UNESCO International Conference on Friday, 5th […]
This blog was written by Gemma Wilson-Clark, Team Leader and Senior Education Advisor at UNICEF All opinions expressed in this blog are her own and are not attributable to or endorsed by UNICEF. Last week, from 4 to 6 July 2018, I attended a roundtable at Wilton Park hosted by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth […]
This blog was written by Catherine M Jere, school of International Development, University of East Anglia, and member of the UKFIET Executive Committee Despite tremendous progress in enrolment over the last 15 years, current estimates indicate that, globally, close to 265 million children and youth are out of school. Half of these – approximately 133 […]
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 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 […]
