Education Commission Executive Director Dr. Liesbet Steer delivered closing remarks at the launch of our latest report produced in partnership with UNICEF and the LEGO Foundation.
Education Commission ED Dr. Liesbet Steer participated in the first ministerial meeting of the School Meals Coalition (SMC) on October 14, hosted by the Government of Finland in Helsinki.
Every classroom requires a few basic things to function: a teacher, learning materials, and a safe environment for students to learn. All classrooms exist in different contexts and all learners build their knowledge and skills in different ways.
In Sierra Leone, teachers in rural areas struggle to access meaningful opportunities for professional development due to their distance from teacher training colleges, limited understanding of English language, and lack of school-based communities of practice.
Millions of children are falling behind in their education as a result of the pandemic, malnutrition, and poverty. But with well-designed and properly financed school meals programs…
For every child to learn, they must feel welcome in their classroom, no matter their ability, background, culture, or religion. It is a teacher’s responsibility to create inclusive and engaging learning environments, but they cannot do this alone. To develop these skills, teachers need to have access to professional development…
World leaders, policymakers, development partners, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) among others gathered at the UN Headquarters last week for the Transforming Education Summit..
UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown presents the founding statutes of the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) to UN Secretary-General António Guterres to mark IFFEd’s launch…
Rewiring Education for People and Planet, this report is a call to action to work across sectors, levels, and stakeholders to transform education together with a wider development transformation.
The Transforming Education Summit is approaching and we are excited about it! The United Nations Secretariat planned this important political moment…