An unfulfilled promise: 12 years of education for every girl

An unfulfilled promise: 12 years of education for every girlUNESCO & GEM Report A new paper launched today jointly with UNESCO and timed with the Generation Equality Forum being held in Paris shows that girls’ primary completion rates have increased by almost 20 percentage points over the past 25 years to reach 87%. This in addition to the finding from

International Women’s Day 2021

‘They hold up half the world’ During the pandemic there is plenty of evidence that women and girls have been holding up more than half as they have taken on more responsibilities at home, more employment loss as they are likely to be in informal employment, while being subjected to more domestic violence and online

Language barriers in education

The GEM report below highlights just one of the barriers to education for many students. In many countries the language of instruction is different from a child’s mother tongue. Governments find it difficult to be flexible and often find it politically expedient to ignore those more disadvantaged children. Failure by grade 3 is common for

Migration, Displacement and Education

Migration, Displacement and Education: Building Bridges, not WallsGEM Report Migration and displacement are likely to be a fact of life for some time which is why all teachers need to be inclusive teachers and all systems need to be inclusive systems. The 2019 Global Education Monitoring report’s specific findings and practical recommendations on education and