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Exclusion is holding children with disabilities back

by UKFIET and Johannes Trimmel | Apr 28, 2025 | Education and Disabilities

In celebration of Global Action Week for Education (28 April – 5 May 2025), a coalition of leading international NGOs and organisations of persons with disabilities has released a powerful joint statement calling for urgent action to end the exclusion of children with disabilities from education systems worldwide and are… Read More

Four takeaways on refugee teachers from the Global Report on Teachers

by Sophie Lashford | Jul 29, 2024 | Teachers

The inaugural global report on teachers with the International Teacher Task Force for 2030 illuminates serious global teacher shortages and worsening teacher attrition around the world, and what that means for our progress towards global goals on education. 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...

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

Limits to growth for non-state actors in education: Reflections on the Global Education Monitoring Report 2021/22

by Keith Lewin | Mar 1, 2022 | GEM Report

The latest 2021/22 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report is a must-read for those with an interest in sustainable education and development. It brings together in one place a thoughtful, comprehensive and critical collection of insights into how education systems have been evolving with respect to Non-State Providers (NSPs). Read More

Sustainable Educational Development: Can the dots be joined up by COP26?

by Keith Lewin | Oct 25, 2021 | SDGs

This blog was written by Keith M Lewin, Emeritus Professor of International Education and Development, University of Sussex. Advocacy from the UN system for action on climate...

Learning at the Bottom of the Pyramid (LBOP): Gateway to Sustainable Development

by Daniel A. Wagner, Rachel Hinton and Moses Oketch | Sep 9, 2021 | 2021 UKFIET Conference, Learning

This blog was written by Daniel A. Wagner, University of Pennsylvania; Moses Oketch, UCL Institute of Education; and Rachel Hinton, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development...

How can reading by age 10 fix the learning crisis?

by Hollie Warren | May 13, 2021 | Learning, Literacy and Numeracy

This blog was written by Hollie Warren, Head of Education at Save the Children UK. It was originally published on the Save the Children website on 26 April 2021. Before the...

More than the sum of its parts: Internationally-comparable citizen-led assessments to ensure no child is left behind

by Pauline Rose | Jul 8, 2020 | Assessment

This blog was written by Professor Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. It...

We need new ideas to ensure education responses to Covid-19 don’t harm those marginalized

by Manos Antoninis | May 7, 2020 | COVID-19, GEM Report

This blog was written by Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, the independent annual report published by UNESCO, monitoring progress towards the...

What works? The case of inclusive education

by Nidhi Singal | Jan 7, 2020 | SDGs

This blog was written by Prof.Nidhi Singal, Faculty of Education and REAL Centre, University of Cambridge, and was originally published on the IIEP Learning Portal on 28...