The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Global Education Summit will take place on July 28 and 29, 2021. A centrepiece of the summit will be the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE’s work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and... Read More

Can data be transformed into policy so that children everywhere, even the most disadvantaged, can realize their right to learn?   A project, known as MICS-EAGLE for its use of Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) data to advance Education Analysis and Global Learning for Equity (EAGLE), has helped countries do just that in its first year. The MICS-EAGLE project, which is funded by the Global Partnership for Education... Read More

The Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE), published by Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), recently released a Special Issue on Early Childhood Development in Emergencies, Volume 7, Number 1. When young children experience an emergency due to conflict or a natural disaster, it can change their entire early life experiences and alter their life trajectories.... Read More

On 13 July 2021 from 17:00-18:45 CEST, UNESCO International Bureau of Education (UNESCO-IBE) and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are co-hosting the webinar: “Repositioning learning at the core of the transformation in education: Towards a 21st century curriculum.” Simultaneous interpretation in English, French and Spanish will be available. REGISTER   Webinar Objectives... Read More

Brad Olsen, Senior Fellow,  Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education at Brookings published on the Brookings blog Education and Development a new post titled “Minding the gap: The disconnect between government bureaucracies and cultures of innovation in scaling”. The post is part of a series examining big research questions related to the scaling... Read More

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is organising a webinar “Universities and Social Inequalities in the Global South” on 18 June 2021. Higher education can be a key driver of development and a force for social mobility. It can also be a path to overcome inequalities across gender and race by fostering... Read More

Declaration of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education to the Human Rights Council On 24 June 2021, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Dr Koumba Boly Barry, presented her latest report to the Human Rights Council. This report focuses on the cultural dimensions of the right to education or the right... Read More

A new report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education on the Cultural Dimensions of the Right to Education or the Right to Education as a Cultural Right is available in all UN languages. You can find it here: OHCHR | The cultural dimensions of the right to education or the right to... Read More