Education after 2015: The Commonwealth perspective
Commonwealth ministers of education recently outlined their vision for education’s role in the new global goals for development, emphasizing education’s catalytic power and stressing the need for...
View ArticleBusiness 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...
View ArticleA goal for 2030: primary and lower secondary school completion
Cris Revaz, executive director of the Basic Education Coalition, lays out the coalition’s recommendations for a new set of global education goals, outlined in a new paper, Each Child Learning, Every...
View ArticleAfrica’s 3 top education priorities for the next decade
By Birger Fredriksen, a senior advisor at the Results for Development Institute and former director for human development for Africa at the World Bank. How can countries seize the opportunities and...
View ArticleA post-2015 youth perspective: It’s make-or-break time for education
By Naim Keruwala I came across this picture on my Facebook timeline a couple of days ago. It captures very well the state of education in many countries, where government schools providing free...
View ArticleEquity in education post-2015: how do we get there?
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report A good education has been voted the top priority in the UN’s online survey on what people want in a post-2015 world. But what...
View ArticleEducation for All is affordable – by 2015 and beyond
If governments and donors make concerted efforts to meet the promises they made in 2000, basic education for all could be achieved by 2015, according to analysis in a new policy paper released by the...
View ArticleOur proposed post-2015 education goals emphasize equity, measurability and...
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report As the global education community prepares to discuss education in the post-2015 development agenda at Dakar this week, the...
View ArticlePost-2015: If we don’t tackle educational inequality, we’ll fail the fairness...
By Will Paxton, head of education policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK and chair of the Global Campaign for Education UK’s Policy Group, and Anthony Davis, policy adviser for Plan UK As debates...
View ArticleAre we on track for a global education goal? Reflections on the global...
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report This week I joined 100 education experts from around the world in Dakar, Senegal, to consider the outcomes of global...
View ArticleLet’s choose post-2015 education goals that reflect countries’ own needs
For post-2015 education goals to achieve real change, they need the widest support possible, argues Ed Barnett, an education adviser at the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development....
View ArticleThe world’s poorest children are paying a high price for scholarships
By Nicole Comforto, EFA Global Monitoring Report For many donor countries, a large proportion of ‘aid’ never leaves their country. Spending this money on education in the world’s poorest countries...
View ArticlePost-2015 and Bali: Without education for all, we can’t achieve sustained...
It was very good news that a global meeting this week seems to have made progress in aligning two competing visions for the post-2015 development agenda – one centred on eradicating poverty and the...
View ArticleShrinking aid flows risk making Education for All out of reach
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report New aid figures released this week by the OECD make for sombre reading. Globally, aid has fallen since 2010, with poor...
View ArticleWe need to act urgently on inequality to get every child into school by 2015
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are only 1,000 days to go until the deadline for the Education for All goals, but there are still 61 million primary...
View ArticleEvery child needs a good teacher, especially in the early grades
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Worldwide, 250 million primary school age children are not learning the basics – even though almost half of them are in...
View ArticleTurning the ‘resource curse’ into a blessing for education
Maximizing the income from natural resources such as oil and minerals could provide an education to 86% out-of-school children and 42% of out-of-school adolescents in 17 developing countries, according...
View ArticlePakistan’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...
View ArticleHigh-Level Panel post-2015 roadmap: Close, but still some way to go
The just-released Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda is to be commended for putting forward a clear roadmap for the way ahead. Feeding into the...
View ArticleAfrica’s resource wealth could end illiteracy and build an educated middle class
By Caroline Kende-Robb, executive director of the Africa Progress Panel A new report from the Africa Progress Panel shows that mineral wealth could transform education in Sub-Saharan Africa, building...
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