The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), is looking forward to the arrival of hundreds of education experts, teachers, and policymakers from around the world as they make their way to Ottawa for the UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development, March 6-10, which will focus specifically on the role of education.
With the adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 4, governments have pledged to achieve universal primary and secondary education by 2030 and to eliminate disparities so that every child and adolescent completes quality education and learning. Can these challenges be met?
As the chart illustrates, the past 15 years saw a steep decline in out-of-school rates at three levels of education, spurred by inclusive policies and legislation. Girls in particular benefited from the global push for universal primary education.
Unfinished business
Pour célébrer la Journée internationale des femmes 2017 (8 mars), l’Institut de statistique de l’UNESCO (ISU) lance la nouvelle édition du eAtlas sur l’inégalité entre les sexes dans l’éducation pour montrer les endroits où les filles et les femmes font des progrès et ceux où elles sont laissées pour compte à chaque niveau d’enseignement.
Around the world, national statistical offices (NSOs) and line ministries involved in data collection and production are throwing their energies into efforts to track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). National statistical systems in developing countries – often under-resourced, under-staffed and under pressure – already achieve miracles with the limited tools at their disposal. Now they are being pushed even harder, with the SDGs calling for more and better data for a wider range of development issues.
The UIS will be showing the way forward on measuring learning and equity in education through a series of presentations and panel discussions at the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) taking place in Atlanta (USA) from 5-9 March.
Cette question est le point de départ d’une réunion ayant rassemblé des experts internationaux, des chercheurs, des conseillers gouvernementaux tout autant que des représentants d’entreprises et d’associations, à Montréal en mai 2016, à l’occasion du Colloque international sur la mesure des produits culturels numériques. Les actes de cette réunion sont maintenant disponibles dans un nouveau rapport publié par l’Institut de statistique de l’UNESCO conjointement avec l’Observatoire de la culture et des communications de l’Institut de la statistique du Québec.
Only 4 of the 15 countries in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have policies in place to support the development of science and technology, potentially a key economic driver in the region. In response, CARICOM established the Science, Technology and Innovation Committee (CSTIC) in 2014 to implement a Plan of Action. Priorities include the development of basic and fundamental infrastructure and building statistical expertise.
New Module to Map Assessments of Children and Youth in School and Out
The UIS has completed the first stage in a major upgrade of its Catalogue of Learning Assessments, which collects a wide range of data and information on learning assessments and serves to document countries’ efforts in monitoring and tracking learning.
Pour célébrer la Journée internationale des femmes, l’ISU met en évidence l’écart qui persiste entre les hommes et les femmes dans les études doctorales et la recherche.
On 11 February, the world will be celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. There will be lots of articles and speeches about the famous “leaky pipeline”, a metaphor used to describe the constant flow of women leaving the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) throughout their studies and careers.