Category Archives: Teachers
Sustainable development begins with education
By Pauline Rose, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report As the post-2015 goal-setting process continues, education has increasingly been discussed as not only a development goal in its own right, but also a key way of reaching other development … Continue reading
Pakistan’s elections highlight education challenges
By Nicole Comforto, EFA Global Monitoring Report The candidates in Pakistan’s election last week frequently cited quality education as one of their top priorities and committed to increase government spending on education, for good reason. Pakistan has the world’s second-highest … Continue reading
What should every child learn? And how can we check on progress?
By Seamus Hegarty, chair of the Standards Working Group of the Learning Metrics Task Force and visiting professor at the University of Warwick Many children around the world attend school but do not learn. According to estimates in the 2012 EFA … Continue reading
Posted in Equity, Learning, Quality of education, Teachers, Testing, Uncategorized
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Business leaders at the World Economic Forum must boost finance for education
As political and business leaders gather in Davos for another year’s World Economic Forum, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has released a new policy paper showing that contributions from corporations and private foundations combined total only $683 million … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Out-of-school children, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers, Uncategorized
Tagged aid, davos, donors, education, Education for All, philanthropy, private sector, world economic forum
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Join the consultation on Teaching and Learning for Development
A learning crisis is leaving one in three primary school-aged children not achieving basic skills, whether they are in school or not. This revelation makes the theme of the 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Teaching and … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Gender, Latin America, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Sustainable development, Teachers, Training
Tagged developing countries, education, equity, learning, Millennium Development Goals, out of school, post-2015, primary education, quality, teachers
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How many teachers does the world need?
To celebrate World Teacher’s Day, 5 October, we invited Albert Motivans from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to provide some insights into how the lack of teachers affects progress towards Education for All. Massive teacher shortages are quietly looming over … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Teachers
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Improving teaching and learning is crucial, especially for the marginalized
By Dr. Yusuf Sayed, Reader in International Education at the University of Sussex The sixth Education for All goal was the focus of the 2005 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The quality imperative. As part of our 10th anniversary countdown to … Continue reading
Posted in Primary school, Quality of education, Secondary school, Teachers
Tagged GMR, GMR 10th anniversary
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Literacy: Let’s listen to what adults want to learn
By Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia The fourth Education for All goal is to halve adult illiteracy between 2000 and 2015. How is the world faring? To mark International Literacy Day on September 8, we asked … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Literacy, Marginalization, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers, technology, Training, Youth
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How do skills develop? Cognitive neuroscience offers some insights
By Helen Abadzi, Senior Education Specialist, Global Partnership for Education Developing countries want their citizens to acquire and use complex skills, but there is much debate over the best ways to achieve this (as the 2012 Education for All Global … Continue reading
How to reduce poverty’s impact on education
Français | Español On October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, it’s worth remembering that progress in fighting poverty is inextricably linked with progress in achieving education for all. Although poverty continues to decline in many countries, … Continue reading
