Leadership & Accountability
Education for all is not possible without employers
Leila Toplic, Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer at LRNG We live in a time of learning abundance, with more access to knowledge and technological innovation than ever before. Yet we are confronted by incredible inequality because learning in the 21st...
We need to treat education like global health By Patricio Meller (Medium)
For far too long, education has not been enough of a global priority. In the last decade alone, international development donors have spent proportionately less on education — while significantly increasing aid to global health. Access to good quality schools is just...
In education, what can US learn from developing countries? By Justin van Fleet – Medium Bright
It concluded that not only do we need more investment in education, but that we need to use it wisely. The ways money is spent in education has a significant impact on learning outcomes.
No shortcuts or substitutes for teachers – Educational International
Together, EI and the Education Commission have highlighted the following seven key areas where the report supports and addresses the needs of teachers:
Tale of Kenya’s absentee primary school teachers – Africa Review
Nearly a half of primary schools teachers in Kenya do not attend classes and this costs the country $0.27 billion a year, a report by the Education Commission has revealed. The report also says that about 16 percent of teachers do not report to school at all. This...
We can educate all the world’s children – If we choose to by Alice Albright – The Huffington Post
The Commission offers sobering diagnosis and bold, concrete recommendations about how global education financing should and can be increased and deployed. This report should be treated as a once-in-a-generation roadmap to set global education on the right path.
Education is civil rights struggle of our age: U.N. envoy Gordon Brown – Reuters
Ensuring every child gets a good education is the “civil rights struggle of our generation”, United Nations education envoy Gordon Brown said on Friday ahead of launching a plan for the largest educational expansion in history.
Engaging the education workforce in reform efforts
Monazza Aslam, an Associate Fellow at IDEAS Pakistan, explains why the “Sustainable Development Goals cannot be achieved without reforming the education workforce and without engaging closely with teachers in the design and implementation of reforms.”