Globally 617 million – or six out of ten – children and adolescents are unable to read a simple sentence or handle a basic mathematics calculation, according to data from the UNESCO Institute for...
The pursuit of the data needed to achieve the world’s education goals is moving up a gear, thanks to the effort of UNESCO’s Education Sector and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) in...
In its capacity-building efforts, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has published an easy-to-use guide to help countries administer learning assessments. Data on learning allow governments to...
In continued efforts to build statistical capacity in countries, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released a new guide to help countries to initiate learning assessment reforms by...
As the Inter-agency and Expert Group Sustainable Development Goal indicators (IAEG–SDG) meets in Ottawa from 28-31 March, the UIS has released a paper that calls for a data revolution in education...
As part of UNESCO’s Capacity Development for Education (CapED) Programme, the UIS is launching a new effort to help bridge the gap between national education policies, data collection and use.
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Where does your country stand in relation to the ten targets of the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4)? You can now go straight to the source with the new edition of the SDG 4 Data...
To achieve quality education for all, as highlighted in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and the Education 2030 agenda, governments in most countries need to do more to address persistent...
