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 taken a step forward in developing a new regional data collection to monitor progress on [...]
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On World AIDS Day, it’s vital to remember that education has a key role to play in reaching the goal of “zero new infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.” Every day, about 1,000 children are infected with HIV. Almost all of them contract the virus during their mother’s pregnancy, during childbirth or when they [...]
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Français | Español World Teachers’ Day on October 5 is an opportunity to celebrate teachers and to promote international standards for the profession. This year’s theme, “Teachers for gender equality,” serves as a reminder that recruiting and training more teachers – especially women – is crucial if we are to achieve the Education for All [...]
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Français | Español To mark the launch in Juba, South Sudan, of a new GMR policy paper on South Sudan’s education challenges, we publish a special opinion piece by UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova. Download the policy paper at www.efareport.unesco.org. On 9 July, South Sudan became the world’s newest state. This is a historic moment that requires [...]
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Français | Español By Jakob Engel, a research consultant for the Overseas Development Institute Cambodia and Ethiopia offer valuable lessons on improving access to education after conflict, the theme of the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. Ethiopia, long one of the most educationally disadvantaged countries in the world, [...]
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Français | Español By Sarah Press, Education Thematic Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Save the Children (UK) If you wanted to put names and faces to the million of forgotten children in the world, you might start in the rolling hills of Kitchanga, north of Goma, in the east of the [...]
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Français | Español Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global learning goals has been documented in the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. As the [...]
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Français | Español | العربية By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report No one could have predicted that, in the space of a few months, the death by self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian struggling to make a living as a fruit vendor, would have sent such shock waves across the [...]
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By Leila Loupis, communications manager, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Français | Español ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ – one of Mark Twain’s favourite lines, even if he didn’t coin it himself – may not have been heard much at this year’s inaugural World Statistics Day on Wednesday. But the many events held to mark [...]
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By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Global Monitoring Report team How many children are not in school? The figure we give in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, which has been widely picked up around the world, is 72 million. This figure was established by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) drawing on [...]
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