Help us picture the future!

We’re running an artwork contest for young people on the theme of youth, skills and work – the focus of our forthcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The winner’s work will be used in the report. The contest is open to those aged 18 to 24, and the deadline is 1 April 2012. [...]

Youth jobs crisis pushes EU to address ‘skills mismatch’

Hard on the heels of Davos, where the “skills gap” was the subject of several sessions, the European summit on Monday showed that high unemployment is concentrating EU leaders’ minds on improving training for young people – the focus of our forthcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Youth unemployment, which is high right [...]

BRIEFLY: Promoting skills in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Despite high unemployment rates, jobs remain vacant for months in many Eastern European countries and countries that once formed part of the Soviet Union. In Macedonia, 28% of the population is jobless – including 62% of youth, but this number could be significantly reduced if young people had the right skills. The US development agency [...]

How do we gauge global progress on skills?

Français | Español One of the challenges when setting targets like the Education for All goals (which the international community aims to reach by 2015) is knowing when you’ve actually reached them. It’s a particularly tough call with EFA goal 3, “ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable [...]

Harnessing the power of education

Français | Español Pauline Rose became director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report in August 2011, after three years as a senior policy analyst with the GMR team. Here she outlines her vision for the GMR and the 2015 EFA targets. Since 2000, the Education for All goals and Millennium Development Goals have [...]

When literacy clears a path to peace

Français | Español International Literacy Day, celebrated on September 8, focuses this year on ‘Literacy for peace,’ reinforcing the clear role for literacy in peace-building that was identified in the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. The report showed that education can be a powerful force for peace, and [...]

BRIEFLY: Background on education and conflict

Prospects, UNESCO’s Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, has published a special issue on education and armed conflict. It draws together seven background papers written for the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, with an editorial by Clementina Acedo, director of UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education, and an introduction by Pauline Rose of the EFA Global [...]

Militarizing aid is dangerous for education

Français | Español By Marisol Sanjinés, senior communications adviser, Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and Yolanda Polo, GMR consultant The line between development and international security has been blurred considerably in recent years. Some donor countries, led by the United States, have made development aid an integral part of their response to global threats, [...]

Grover supports International Literacy Day

Welcome to the World Education Blog

This blog is hosted by the team working on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, an independent report published by UNESCO that tracks the world’s progress towards the six education goals to which over 160 countries committed themselves in 2000. We aim to raise fundamental questions about Education for All – especially on the [...]