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, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ Presenters: Deon Filmer and Halsey Rogers, Co-Directors of the World Bank World Development Report 2018 and William C Smith, Senior Policy Analyst from the UNESCO Global […]
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 the GEM Report provides a stark reminder that trends in aid to education mean there is still a long journey to travel to deliver access to […]
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 thoughts from Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh and NORRAG Kenneth.King@ed.ac.uk The plan for the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR) to review education and migration in […]
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 transforming VET might mean. The contrast between the narrowness of the former agenda and the ambition of the latter […]
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 representatives and Ministers of Education from many conflict-affected countries together with practitioners and researchers from the education and conflict/emergencies community (EiE). We all stood to […]
