Clik here to view.
Domestic revenues will need to be mobilised to realise the 2014 GPE pledges
The Global Partnership for Education brought together governments and donors at its Replenishment Conference in Brussels last week. While donors fell short of the $3.5 billion target, governments...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lessons from Dakar
This blog introduces a new series that will take a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. As we reach the 500 day countdown until the end of 2015, this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Jomtien Conference in 1990 was a game changer for education
This blog looks back at the start of the EFA movement, from Jomtien, to Dakar, to today. It is the first in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Improving literacy for sustainable development
South SudanCredit: © BRAC Today is International Literacy Day. The theme for this year is Literacy and Sustainable Development. The day will be “an opportunity to remember a simple truth: literacy not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The role of civil society in the Dakar World Education Forum
This is the fifth in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the EFA agenda and its implementation. This blog looks back to the World Education Conference in Dakar in 2000 from the perspective...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New GMR booklet: Sustainable development begins with education
As the General Assembly kicks off in New York, the GMR has produced a new widely-supported booklet showing that education is a catalyst for each of the proposed post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photostory: The power of education
Sustainable development begins with an education as demonstrated by the following people from around the world. Download our booklet, released yesterday to coincide with the UN General Assembly, to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Financing the massive education catch-up needed in sub-Saharan Africa
This is the seventh in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. This blog is by Birger Fredriksen, who was a member of the World...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New: Advocacy Toolkit for Teachers
Today is World Teachers Day. It is a day for teachers to speak their minds and describe the challenges and joys of their daily experiences in the classroom. It is also a day for policy makers to listen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school...
By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We owe all our children the benefits of quality education
By Mariam Khalique, a teacher from the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and previous teacher of Malala Yousafzai. There is a saying in our national language: a teacher is like an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Malawi: Why it’s important children learn to read in their mother-tongue
By Helen Abadzi, Radhika Iyengar, Alia Karim and Florie Chagwira – education specialists from the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Throughout sub-Saharan...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pakistan: Children in primary schools should be taught in their mother tongue
Credit: UNESCO/Amina Sayeed By Bushra Rahim, PhD student. “If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would not be we, we would be clones of an alien people; we would be aliens to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Problem solving skills with global relevance
By Jenny Bradshaw and Francesco Avvisati, OECD The international community is intensively working on a set of goals and targets to be reached by 2030. Among them, the Education for All Steering...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2014 – a year of reflection
2014 was a year spent reflecting on past achievements in education and their implications for international policy commitments in 2015 and beyond. Our blog remained a popular online hub and the year’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who is Minding the Gap for Post Primary Transitions for Post 2015?
By Baela Raza Jamil, who currently serves as the Director of Programs Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi and the Institute for Professional Learning as well as Coordinator of the South Asian Forum for Education...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Data is critical to achieving universal primary and secondary education
By Jo Bourne, Associate Director and Global Chief of Education, Programme Division, UNICEF, and Albert Motivans, Head of Education Statistics, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. It is time for a dose of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No Girl Left Behind – Education in Africa
By Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education at the World Bank, Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Karen Mundy, Chief Technical Officer at the Global Partnership...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial...
New estimates by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reveal that an annual US$22 billion external funding gap must be bridged if low and lower middle income countries are to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The sustainable development goals won’t be achieved without education
Over the course of the next few days, UN Member States will be meeting in New York for the next intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. They will be discussing global...
View Article