The latest figures on out-of-school-children are sobering, to say the least. According to new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), progress remains at a standstill. We still have...
Learn about the indicators for 4.2 that assess whether children are ready to learn and have participated in preschool
I’m sure we all remember our first day at primary school. Our reactions may have...
A new paper from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Education and Disability, presents the first in-depth analysis of available data for 49 countries. It confirms that persons with...
UIS releases data for reference year 2016
New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that, despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has...
The educational prosperity framework that I introduced in a recent blog provides an essential structure for understanding the holistic and cumulative ways that children develop, learn and thrive. The...
New analysis confirms that persons with disabilities are nearly always worse off than those without disabilities when it comes to education
Persons with disabilities are among the most marginalised...
Let’s review Indicator 4.1.1 on learning outcomes
In the recent introduction to this series of blogs, Everything you always wanted to know about SDG 4 data indicators… but didn’t know who to ask, I...
The Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) is making steady progress in defining the learning outcomes indicators of the SDG 4 monitoring framework. The first step for all of these indicators –...
