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EDUCATION THIS WEEK (26 – 30 April 2021)

GLOBAL ACTION WEEK FOR EDUCATION 2021

The Global Action Week for Education (GAWE) has started! This year activities focus on securing an increase in public financing of education to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Regional policy dialogues are led by members of the UNESCO’s Collective Consultation of NGO’s on Education and culminates with a global event on Friday: 26 April – Asia Pacific dialogue led by the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE). “Protect Education Budgets: reach the most marginalised”. Watch 27 April – Arab region broadcast focused on debt and education financing hosted by the Arab Campaign for Education for All (ACEA): “National Open Wave for Financing Education” Facebook Live Stream 28 April – Latin America Regional Policy Dialogue focused on privatisation led by Campaña Latinoamericana por el Derecho a la Educación (CLADE). 29 April – Africa Regional Policy Dialogue focused on inclusion hosted by the African Campaign Network for Education for All (ANCEFA). Followed by the launch of a new report: “One Billion Voices: How Africa can lead in education in a post-COVID world”. 30 April – A high-level global policy dialogue on mobilizing education financing, in partnership with the Global Partnership for Education, and featuring a video message by UNESCO’s head of Education.   UNESCO resources in connection to the financing education theme: How Committed? Unlocking financing for equity in education   COVID-19 is a serious threat to aid to education recovery  Act now: reduce the impact of COVID-19 on the cost of achieving SDG 4  Global Education Meeting 2020 Declaration  The endorsed Declaration defines priority actions that are essential for educational recovery in 2021. These priority actions requiring that education budgets be at least protected, if not increased. In the Declaration, governments and partners stated their commitment to: Maintain or increase the share of public spending on education to at least 4-6% of GDP and/or 15-20% of public expenditure; Ensure that stimulus packages support measures that will mitigate learning losses and get the most vulnerable back to school; Increase the volume, predictability and effectiveness of international aid, and target aid to countries and populations most in need including those who are not reached by government programmes.  #Education2030NGOs #OneBillionVoicesForEducation

GIRLS IN MATHS AND SCIENCE

On 22 April, on International Girls in ICT Day, the importance of engaging girls and young women all around the world to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is highlighted. On this occasion, UNESCO and the International Association of the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) investigated how teacher self-efficacy and gender are related in mathematics and science teaching in a special issue of the IEA Compass: Briefs in Education Series. Using data from IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2015, the brief explores the relationship between teachers’ gender and learners’ mathematics and science achievement and how female teachers’ self-efficacy relates to job satisfaction. The brief also discusses implications for teaching, and suggests actions to address gender gaps. You can access the brief here. We hope that it will be an interesting read. More information here

PRIZE FOR GIRLS’ AND WOMEN’S EDUCATION: DEADLINE 26 MAY

Just one month is left before the deadline (26 May) for nominations for the 2021 UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education. The Prize honours outstanding and innovative practices advancing girls’ and women’s education and consists of two monetary awards of USD 50,000 to help further the work of laureates in this field. As COVID-19 related school closures widen existing inequalities, organizations championing girls’ and women’s education need our support more than ever. You can spread the word about this Prize by sharing the social media package or watch the video of the 2020 laureates.

EDUCATION EVENTS THIS WEEK

Here are the main events coming up this week. For more information regarding these events and others, please visit the event’s page. 14 April – 10 May MGIEP education series: Education and the environment 25 April – 2 May GEM Report at 2021 Comparative and International Education Society Conference 26 April Addressing antisemitism through education - Sub-regional conference for policymakers, teacher trainers and educators in southeast Europe 27 April Online Conference on Bridging Asia-Pacific and Europe: New qualifications and competencies in TVET Launch in Brazil of the 2020 GEM Report, Latin America and the Caribbean - Inclusion and Education: All means All 28 April Caribbean Sub-Regional Consultation for CONFINTEA VII 2022 Addressing antisemitism through education - Online workshop for policymakers, teacher trainers and educators from North Macedonia 30 April Addressing and countering hate speech through education - Preparatory meeting for the Global Education Ministers Conference

(RE)WATCH ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM

This month, on the margins of the ECOSOC Youth Forum 2021, UNESCO, OHCHR and OSGEY (Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth), convened a kick-off event entitled “Youth leading human rights change through education: empowered and equal”. The aim was to highlight the importance of human rights education for youth and to encourage youth engagement in this area. Click here to watch the recording

CALL FOR PROPOSALS : GEM REPORT SPOTLIGHT SERIES ON AFRICA

A new annual GEM Report Africa Spotlight Report Series on universal basic education completion and achievement of foundational learning skills is being developed to launch in 2022. Each report will cover 12 countries in the region, of which 4 will be covered in depth. The team have put out a request for proposals for country-based researchers in the following four countries (deadline 14 May). Please share these with your relevant networks. Democratic Republic of the Congo Mozambique Rwanda Senegal

LATEST NEWS

How a UNESCO laureate is helping girls go back to school in Kenya Q&A: UNESCO and the Office for Climate Education - boosting climate action through learning Female science and mathematics teachers: Better than they think? Mobilizing young changemakers from across the globe: “The power of YOUth will drive the future of education” Release of Progress Update from the International Commission Now this: vaccine requirements to go to university Why the drive to inclusion depends on improving our understanding of the lives and work of teaching assistants

JUST PUBLISHED

One year into COVID: prioritizing education recovery to avoid a generational catastrophe Respuestas de política pública y desafíos para garantizar el bien-estar de la primera infancia en tiempos de COVID-19: un análisis comparado para América Latina Lo no formal en la atención y educación de la primera infancia Fostering multilingualism for inclusion in education and society: webinar report on the occasion of the 2021 International Mother Language Day’s celebration Digital citizenship as a public policy in education in Latin America     Female science and mathematics teachers: better than they think?           Educación en contexto de encierro punitivo: los casos de El Salvador, Honduras y México: primeros apuntes para un análisis comparado

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