The latest results of the large-scale reading assessments, PIRLS, will be launched by UNESCO and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) on 5 December 2017 in Paris. Entitled Measuring SDG 4: How PIRLS Can Help, the report presents key findings related to the school environment, gender disadvantage and early childhood education as a foundation for learning.
As the Fourth Meeting of the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) gets underway in Madrid, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) explores how best to measure functional literacy and numeracy.
Le nouveau rapport de l’Institut de statistique de l’UNESCO (ISU) propose une feuille de route des stratégies et des outils pour aider les pays à produire les données indispensables sur l’éducation.
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As education stakeholders, including governments, assessment initiatives and donors gather in Madrid for the Fourth Meeting of the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML), the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the International Bureau of Education set out strategies to help resolve the technical and political challenges of measurement.
The 2018 Survey of Formal Education covers key data for the school year ending in 2017 required for the monitoring of international and national education goals.
Following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is working closely with Member States and partners to develop new indicators, statistical approaches and monitoring tools to better assess progress towards the SDG 4 education targets while making every effort to minimise the reporting burden on countries.
Selon une nouvelle fiche d’information publiée par l’ISU, dans la plupart des pays, les femmes sont plus nombreuses que les hommes à travailler dans le secteur de la culture, mais pour compléter leurs revenus, elles ont besoin d’occuper plusieurs emplois.
L’ISU a lancé une enquête pilote sur les statistiques du patrimoine afin de collecter des informations sur l’Objectif de Développent Durable 11 (ODD 11), Cible 11.4.1 qui mesure combien les pays dépensent pour la préservation, protection et conservation de l’ensemble de leur patrimoine culturel et naturel. L’objectif de cette enquête pilote est de tester l’instrument de collecte et d’obtenir des information plus détaillées au niveau des pays. Appartenant à toutes les régions du monde, 14 pays participent à cet exercice.
The news that more than more than half – 617 million - children and adolescents of primary and lower secondary school age worldwide are not reaching minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics is a wake-up call for educators and for statisticians.
Six out of ten children and adolescents are unable to meet minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, according to the UIS. A new paper presents the methodology used to produce these estimates and the rationale for developing a global composite indicator.
Driving systematic change in critical areas such as health, energy and infrastructure is the task of the Global Future Council's 700 members in Dubai this week. They are investigating how breakthrough technologies can be used to "join the dots".