Following previous UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) reports on education and the other SDGs (2016), accountability (2017/8), migration and displacement (2019), the 2020 GEM Report will focus on inclusion. You are invited to suggest literature, data analysis and case studies to help inform the team’s writing. Echoing the overall orientation in the SDGs to ‘leave […]
Meeting Continental Targets for Inclusive, Quality and Transformative Education and Training in the 21st Century, 27-29th September 2018, Dakar, Senegal Background The African Union Commission is working with several partner agencies across Africa to organise the ‘Innovating Education in Africa Expo’ to showcase technical and social innovations in every area of education and training. The […]
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 Anna Murru, Adèle Dachy and Filip Lenaerts, VVOB How can a pre-school teacher make sure that all children in the class are learning? At first glance, it may seem that all pupils are learning… But by observing each one of them in a more systematic way, teachers can determine who is really […]
