Whose crisis? Taking responsibility for global education
Recommendations for action from the World Development Report 2018 and 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Wednesday 24th January 2018 10.30am to 1pm Friends House,...
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Making space for more and better aid to education
This blog was originally posted on the World Education Blog of the Global Education Monitoring Report on the 9 June 2017. Reposted with permission. The latest policy paper from...
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The challenge and relevance of the global monitoring of education and migration
UKFIET organised a consultation meeting in London on 22nd May 2017 around the 2019 GEMR on Education and Migration at the request of the GEMR team. This blog reflects some...
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Skills for Work and Life: Towards a Transformative Approach
A week after the release of the UN HLP Report and its VET goal, I was in Paris to present at UNESCO my thoughts on what their ambitious, but still to be fleshed out, notion of...
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The potential of conflict sensitivity rests on understanding conflict
At the beginning of April, INEE and UNESCO IIEP hosted a High-Level Event on Conflict Sensitive Education at UNESCO Paris. The event was attended by a number of UNESCO country...
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A Goal on Skills? What the Skills GMR does and doesn’t tell us about a post-2015 goal
November 15th saw the UK launch of the latest Global Monitoring Report, this year on youth and skills. Given the GMR was released at a time when the post-2015 global development...
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The Role of the Commonwealth in Supporting Education
2012 has seen Ministerial Task-Force proposals on ways for restructuring the Commonwealth Secretariat command the attention of stakeholders across all Commonwealth education...
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Are Girls overtaking Boys in Education?
According to UNESCO’s 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR), the world has achieved gender parity in enrolment at both primary and secondary levels. Gender...
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From Literacy to Literacies?
Around the world, Literacy is regarded as an indisputable public good, central to all educational initiatives. As the 2006 UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on ‘Literacy for Life’...
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