Category Archives: Africa

Will boys and girls have equal access to education in 2015?

Posted on 23 August 2012 by

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report As the 2015 deadline draws near, is the world on track to give its boys and girls the same chance to get a good education? This week we … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Gender, Human rights, Literacy, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills | Tagged , | 4 Comments

In South Sudan, many girls are missing out on school

Posted on 9 July 2012 by

Today, July 9, South Sudan celebrates its first anniversary. Since independence, education has been a key priority for the government. But many challenges remain – especially girls’ access to education. It’s been a rough start for the world’s youngest country. … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Governance, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people | 8 Comments

Let’s not forget 61 million out-of-school children at Rio+20

Posted on 11 June 2012 by

By Pauline Rose, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and Albert Motivans, Head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. On the eve of the Rio+20 conference, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report and … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Poverty | 10 Comments

From education to the economy, malnutrition threatens Africa’s progress

Posted on 19 May 2012 by

By Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva Anyone who has gone without food for a couple of days knows the debilitating effects of hunger. For many of us, the experience is transient – we fail to eat during a trip or a long working … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Famine, Group of 8, Nutrition | 7 Comments

Food crisis is also an education crisis

Posted on 16 May 2012 by

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Hunger and malnutrition are urgent development problems, despite the fact that the world has the capacity to feed everyone. They also have devastating effects on education, robbing millions … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Famine, Finance, Governance, Group of 8, Nutrition | 1 Comment

Africa Progress Report calls for big push on education

Posted on 14 May 2012 by

Urgent action is needed to tackle a “twin crisis” in access to education and the quality of teaching, according to the 2012 Africa Progress Report, Jobs, Justice and Equity: Seizing Opportunities in Times of Global Change, which was launched on … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Skills, Training, Youth | 3 Comments

BRIEFLY: Measuring education quality in Africa

Posted on 7 May 2012 by

To improve the quality of education, first you have to be able to measure it, but education quality is notoriously difficult to define and measure, as was pointed out on this blog last week. The UNESCO Institute of Statistics has … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Primary school, Quality of education | 2 Comments

Education as a way out of exploitation

Posted on 12 April 2012 by

A new video and an accompanying article released by UNICEF about education in northern Benin turn the spotlight on child labour, child trafficking and other factors that rob children of their right to education. As we will discuss in our … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Human rights, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Poverty | 2 Comments

BRIEFLY: Attacks in Nigeria leave thousands without schools

Posted on 30 March 2012 by

One common impact of conflict on education – which we noted in the 2011 Education for all Global Monitoring Report – is the tendency for armed groups to attack schools. Since the beginning of this year, the Islamist group Boko … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Conflict, Human rights | 3 Comments

BRIEFLY: In Nairobi, a focus on decent jobs and better lives

Posted on 16 March 2012 by

Since Thursday, young people from across the globe have been meeting with senior leaders from the UN, governments and civil society in Nairobi at the Youth 21 Building for Change conference. The gathering aims to find better ways of engaging … Continue reading →

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