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By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics This blog was also published by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).  Last month saw a major leap forward on the global...
12/07/2017
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The theme of this year's International Literacy Day on Friday, 8 September, is ‘Literacy in a Digital World’. The Day aims to highlight the kind of literacy skills people need to navigate this world...
05/09/2017
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New data on learning are steadily coming on-stream, helping us to gauge the extent to which children and youth, in school and out, are learning acquiring the skills they need to build their lives....
07/09/2017
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This questionnaire is designed to collect information about countries’ plans to participate in cross-national assessments.
23/03/2018
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This questionnaire collects information on donors that may provide technical or financial assistance for countries to participate learning assessments.
22/03/2018
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The UIS has launched two new surveys to gather information on the financing of large-scale learning assessments in countries and potential sources of technical and financial support from donors and...
08/09/2017
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New data released today by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics....
21/09/2017
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New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals...
21/09/2017