Globally, women make up over half of all students who have enrolled in tertiary education, but they remain considerably less likely to choose STEM fields. In 2018–23, new UIS data released for the 2024 GEM Gender Report show that women made up only 35% of STEM graduates, showing no progress over the past ten years.…
South Africa: The launch of the South Africa Spotlight report took place at the 2024 Lekgotla hosted by the Department of Basic Education on March 14. Produced in partnership with the Department of Basic Education and ADEA, the report demonstrates that foundational literacy and numeracy have been strong national priorities but that challenges remain in…
The gender edition of the 2023 GEM Report was released on April 25, International Girls in ICT Day, at an event organised by the AU International Center for Girls & Women’s Education in Africa (CIEFFA) and ImpactHER. Technology on her terms warns that exposure to algorithm-driven, image-based content can expose girls to inappropriate material, ranging…
In accordance with GA Resolution 71/313, the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) will be conducting a Comprehensive Review of the global indicator framework throughout 2024 and will submit its proposed refinements, revisions, replacements, additions and deletions to the 56th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2025 for…
A new UNESCO factsheet released for International Women’s Day shows where investments in girls’ education need to be stepped up. The 10 countries with the highest out of school rates for girls are all in Africa apart from Afghanistan. In 8 of these 10 countries, over half of school-aged girls are out of school, rising…
There has been a lot of discussion in recent months on global SDG indicator 4.1.1a on learning outcomes in early grades. As few countries have been able to report on it, its future is at risk ahead of the upcoming comprehensive review of the SDG indicators. We have explained in a recent blog, the technical…
The 2024/5 GEM Report due out in November will examine the requirements of good leadership in education and spotlight the stories of effective education leaders from around the world. With your help, we want to find: teachers or head teachers who have come into a school and made it more inclusive… politicians or civil servants…
April 30: Consultation on the 2024/5 GEM Report hosted by the German Commission for UNESCO May 2: Dialogue with International Organization of Employers policy working group on Employment, Skills and Digitalization May 7: Launch of the 2024 Spotlight Report on universal basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa: Learning Counts at the Conference of…
The UNECE Regional Forum (March 13-14, 2024) served as an important platform for showcasing Russian expertise in sustainable development. The 2024 Regional Forum took place amid multiple crises. In commitment to the 2030 Agenda at the SDG Summit, governments and stakeholders across the UNECE region are focusing on finding effective, innovative, and crisis-resilient strategies and…
In 2022, the UIS and the GEM Report proposed a major improvement in the way out-of-school rates and populations are estimated, making efficient use of different sources of information. Yet, the model has a weakness: when crisis strikes, estimates cannot be updated without new information. Sometimes such new information is collected. For instance, UNICEF carried…
This second edition of the SDG 4 Scorecard produced together with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) shows the efforts that countries have been making towards achieving their 2025 and 2030 national benchmarks. It was launched at the UNESCO Conference of Education Data and Statistics, which brought together education statisticians from over 125 countries and…
The ECOSOC Partnership Forum held on January 30, 2024, is an annual major event and a well-established platform for discussing the progress and obstacles in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Each year, experts from the CICED present developments in assessing the quality of education and international cooperation…
Since February 2024, CICED experts have regularly continued participating in the work of the UN NGO Major Group to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2023. The group seeks ways to enhance participation and intensify the involvement of non-governmental organizations in processes directly or indirectly related to the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). Annually, the…
Dear friends! The Center for International Cooperation in Education Development wholeheartedly congratulates you on the upcoming 2024 and wishes you and your loved ones confidence in tomorrow, happiness and a peaceful sky above your head!
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is issued every three years in more than 80 countries, examining how 15-year-old students perform in reading, mathematics, and science. Developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, it launched in 2000 and offers comparative data that countries can use to influence education policy. Jonathan…
On October 9, 2023, UNESCO unveiled a comprehensive report on the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) within the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the 78th session of the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly (Economic and Financial Committee), representatives of member states and the UN system came together…
While open science practices are being adopted worldwide, new UNESCO findings reveal a tale of uneven growth. According to the newly released UNESCO Open Science Outlook 1: Status and trends around the world, access and sharing of its benefits remain unequal across regions and disciplines. In the face of challenges such as climate disruption, pandemics,…
New UNESCO data reveals that 50 million more girls have been enrolled in school globally since 2015. The latest calculations by the Global Education Monitoring Report (https://www.unesco.org/gem-report/en) show that there are also 5 million more girls completing each level of education from primary to upper secondary education. This progress calls on efforts to double down…
On World Teachers’ Day, new UNESCO projections reveal a serious global shortage of teachers in all regions of the world. 44 million new teachers are needed to meet the SDG goal of achieving primary and secondary education for all by 2030. While the new figure is significantly lower than the 69 million gap calculated in…
The Eurasian Association for Education Quality Assessment was founded by the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development in 2012. Today, the Association is the largest and perhaps the most well-known platform for exchanging views and conducting joint research in the field of education quality assessment in Eurasia. In 2023, the Association will hold its…
The sixth Global Education Monitoring Report, Technology in education: A tool on whose terms? was released this morning alongside with 20 background papers and more than 200 PEER country profiles on laws and policies on technology in education. The report states that regulations for technology set outside of the education sector will not necessarily cover…
IEA’s PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an ongoing international assessment program of students’ reading achievement in their fourth year of schooling—an important transition point in their development as readers. By this time in their education, students typically have learned how to read and are now reading to learn. Conducted every five years…
Without $97 billion in extra funding per year, low- and lower-middle-income countries will not be able to meet their 2030 national SDG 4 benchmark targets. This is more than 10 times the external resources currently available. New research published by the GEM Report shows that: There is a need to triple the number of pre-primary…
Achieving the fourth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 4) on education requires sound evidence and analysis to support policy-making, facilitate the sharing of good practice, and hold those responsible to account for fulfilling their commitments. The Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) is the global public good that serves this purpose. Established in 2002, the GEM…
Today, the UIS is publishing new or updated administrative data for 34 countries for six global SDG 4 indicators, 15 thematic indicators and 14 ‘other relevant policy indicators’ (ORPI). New household survey data available today include updates for four global SDG 4 indicators, three thematic indicators, and three ORPI, across multiple years. This Data Refresh…
On January 24, the GEM Report and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics released the first online, interactive SDG 4 Scorecard to mark the International Day of Education. The Scorecard assesses how likely it is that countries will achieve their benchmarks by 2025 and 2030. The SDG 4 benchmarks are targets that countries have set for…
Dear friends! The Center for International Cooperation in Education Development wholeheartedly congratulates you on the upcoming 2023 and wishes you and your loved ones confidence in tomorrow, happiness and a peaceful sky above your head!
After a few years of skipping due to reforming of education and then Coronavirus pandemic, the Kyrgyz republic is coming back to participation in one of the largest monitoring research of education quality in the world PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Country will participate in 2025 PISA after absence since 2009. The results of…
Experts from the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development took part in the ninth meeting of the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning (GAML) under the auspices of UNESCO. The meeting of the GAML was held remotely on November 23, 2023. Followed by the online meeting of the Technical Cooperation Group on SDG4. The Center…
A new report on South Asia released today shows that non-state actors are significantly involved in every aspect of education systems in the region – far more than in any other region in the world. Highly competitive education systems and concerns over the quality of public education led to a rise of private education in…
The Spotlight report on basic education completion and foundational learning in Africa is the first in a three-part series. It is a partnership between the Global Education Monitoring Report, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and the African Union. It aims to inspire national dialogue on foundational learning and to form…
On 4 October 2022, hundreds came together online to participate in the launch webinar of UNESCO’s ESD for 2030 Global Network (ESD-Net 2030). With the support of the Government of Japan, UNESCO’s new network aims to facilitate the implementation of the ESD for 2030 framework and its Roadmap by enhancing knowledge sharing, collaboration, mutual learning,…
Ahead of the Transforming Education Summit, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ (UIS) education data release provides new information including on benchmark indicators so that all education stakeholders can see where countries stand in their progress towards SDG 4. It also provides an opportunity for the UIS, along with the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report),…
READ experts participated in UN Education Summit in remote mode on 18th of September. The Transforming Education Summit is a key initiative of Our Common Agenda launched by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in September 2022. The Summit took place during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly and was convened by the Secretary-General with…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought major changes to the way education systems function. The changes affected almost 1.6 billion students in more than 190 countries. The impact of the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing educational disparities, depriving a significant proportion of students (especially those in the poorest and most vulnerable groups) to access to quality education.…
The Center for International Cooperation in Education Development held a seminar with representatives of the partner countries of the READ Program: Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Vietnam. The seminar was devoted to preparations for the study of Skills of the 21st century. The research will be conducted with the…
The annual event will be held on October 13 and 14, 2022 in a mixed format (offline in Moscow + online). The work of the conference will consist of online plenums, sessions and webinars with the participation of representatives from the CIS countries and far abroad, as well as leading international organizations, institutions for the…
Since 2019, the experts of the READ Program participating in the work of the United Nations NGOs Major Group. The group is working to develop a common position of civil society on various issues of the 2030 sustainable development agenda, which is then presented in the framework of the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable…
In 2022, the High-Level Political Forum was held from 05 to 15 July with a focus on “Better recovery from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. The High Level Political Forum (HLPF) is an annual intergovernmental forum where countries review and report on progress towards…
In previous cycles of the READ Program SAM (Student Achievement Monitoring) diagnostic tool for schoolchildren was developed and localized in several countries. The SAM methodology allows to determine the levels of mastering the educational material of students at different stages of schooling. The tool for diagnosing educational and subject competencies SAM functions within the framework…
Evaluation of Teachers (ETP). Specification. The Evaluation of Teachers (ETP) tool for diagnosing teachers’ pedagogical practices is a package of diagnostic tasks for teachers and is based on the principles of subject competencies monitoring for schoolchildren called “SAM” (Student Achievement Monitoring). This tool allows you to determine the levels of acquisition of educational material by…
The Center for International Cooperation for Education Development has begun developing a tool for assessing “Skills of the 21st century”. To date, several classifications of 21st century skills have been developed (among them are the classifications developed by the Commission of the European Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, the…
The conference was held online from 17 to 19 March. The Center annually takes part in this conference and is its partner. This year, the Center did not organize its participation through sessions and round tables but took an active part directly in the discussions and provided information support to this event. Topics of the…
The 2022 meeting of the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) will be held from July 5 to July 7, and from July 11 to July 15, 2022, under the auspices of ECOSOC. The theme of the HLPF 2022 will be “Improving recovery from the global pandemic (COVID-19) while advancing towards…
The Center participated in a series of UNESCO webinars on strengthening leadership among ministry officials in developing countries and their role in resolving the education crisis stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of webinars was held from March 7 to March 16, 2022. The geographical focus of the webinars included the participation of representatives…
Adopted in 1974, the “Recommendation on Education 1974” of the United Nation, was written in the spirit of international understanding, on cooperation in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms and considered a landmark legal document that promotes international understanding, human rights, fundamental freedoms. Since 1974, society has faced new global challenges. These include…
The Civil Society Policy Forum (CSPF) has become an integral part of the spring and annual meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, providing an open space for civil society organizations to dialogue and exchange views with the World Bank Group and IMF staff, their peers, government delegations, and others. stakeholders…
From 6th to 7th April 2022, experts of the Center will take part in the regional forum of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) 2022. For the UNECE region, the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development is a widely recognized platform that continues to bring together an increasing number of participants and groups. The…
CICED experts took part in the annual UN ECOSOC forum. Forum 2022 was held on February 2, 2022 with the theme of “Recovering from the (COVID-19) pandemic while advancing towards the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”. It was attended by numerous participants and stakeholders, including member states, the United Nations system,…
The experts of the Center, within the framework of participation in the activities of non-governmental organizations, took part in the discussion and signing of the Civil Society Declaration of the NPO Committee for the UN. The Civil Society Declaration calls for a new social contract, prioritizing the following agenda: End discrimination and invest in human…