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...
The SDG 4 Data Digest sets out a roadmap for countries and donors to produce quality data
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with their strong emphasis on inclusion and equity, compel us to...
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...
It is something we have come to see as self-evident: education is a fundamental right, and without it, our lives – and indeed our world – would be greatly diminished. It is something we even take...
SDG 4 Data Digest 2019 explores the data methodologies needed to track progress and better direct policies and resources
It is not too late to reach the world’s education goal. At least, not yet. In...
On the day that the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) released new global numbers of children and adolescents not learning, representatives from regional and international learning assessments...
As delegates gather in New Delhi for the South Asia Regional Conference on Using Large-Scale Assessments to Improve Teaching and Learning, a new synthesis paper from the UIS makes the case for...
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) will soon be releasing its projections of the impact of COVID-19 on the learning proficiency of children and youth, building upon previous UIS projections...