15 Feb 2016

ASER 2015 Results from Pakistan: Making the Invisible Visible By Sehar Saeed

By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. The recently launched ASER Report 2015 is a testament to civil society evidence-based activism that has drawn irreversible attention to the crisis of learning, both locally and globally. As we move forward towards the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are reminded that the...
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08 Feb 2016

Measuring Learning: the Cost of Ignorance By Silvia Montoya

Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Let’s be honest. For the past few months, we – the international education community – have been celebrating the victory in getting governments to adopt the ambitious Sustainable Development Goal 4 to provide inclusive and equitable quality education for all. But the party is over and now we face...
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02 Feb 2016

Why the Syria Donors Conference Matters Globally By Hiba Salem

By Hiba Salem, University of Cambridge. With Syria entering its sixth year of conflict, the Syria Donors Conference – scheduled for 4th February in London – has never been more important. A few days are left before the conference tackles the challenging statistics of the millions of Syrians living in dire conditions and the vastly...
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08 Jan 2016

NEET: “Time to Look at the Whole Picture of Youth” By Ummuhan Bardak

By Ummuhan Bardak, European Training Foundation. ‘Unemployed youth’ has typically been the focus of youth-related discussions, in both developing and transition countries (and indeed in the so-called developed countries). Looking at the whole picture, however, there are many more young people who are ‘at risk’ than only the unemployed; e.g. youth who lack access to...
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