UNESCO - EDUCATION THIS WEEK (25 – 28 May 2021)

GLOBAL EDUCATION COALITION CELEBRATES AFRICA DAY   Happy Africa week everybody! The Global Education Coalition Forum which took place on the occasion of Africa Day gathered a cross-section of actors from the African Union, multilateral organizations, EdTech organizations, private sector and tech funds to discuss how to advance digital learning in Africa during the pandemic. A virtual marketplace also identified the current and future needs of building a strong digital ecosystem by asking partners to accelerate efforts and identify areas of joint actions. Recovery, resilience and reimagining education in Africa

GLOBAL EDUCATION MONITORING REPORT WORKSHOP

Take part in a GEM Report workshop to discover our latest SDG 4 monitoring tool - PEER, 2 June   The GEM Report team invites you to join in a one-hour virtual workshop to learn about its new online monitoring tool, Profiles Enhancing Education Reviews (PEER). PEER presents comparable, systematic and up-to date information on national education laws and policies on selected topics. The profiles contain two chapters so far. The first covers inclusion in education, the theme of the 2020 GEM Report. The second chapter covers equitable finance, with additional chapters on non-state actors and climate change also under preparation. Join the workshop to explore the use of PEER as an essential tool for comparative research on policies and legislation on issues central to achieving SDG 4.    Register for the virtual workshop on Wednesday 2 June, 15:00-16:00 CEST/09:00-10:00 EDT

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: SPOTLIGHT REPORT SERIES ON AFRICA - MOZAMBIQUE

The Global Education Monitoring Report is working on a new regional report series for Africa, which will focus on universal basic education completion and foundational learning skills. The first report is due for release in the Spring of 2022.  The GEM team is calling for proposals from organizations to carry out the research activities in Mozambique, one of the focus countries for the first edition of the series. Please submit your proposals responding to the Mozambique RfP before the deadline on 31st May 2021.

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

For a full list of events, please consult the ED events page: 25 May: Thinking higher and beyond: Perspectives on the futures of higher education to 2050 - Launch of report 25 May: Regional Conference on the Integration of the General History of Africa into School Curriculum 26 May: International launch of Curriculum globALE – a reference framework for the training of adult educators 26 May: Webinar to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the higher education and society magazine 26 – 28 May: Re-imagining the future Education Management Information Systems - International seminar

PODCAST WITH MGIEP DIRECTOR

Click here to listen to the One Planet podcast focusing on issues facing people and the planet with Anantha Duraiappah, Director of UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development MGIEP, among others.

LATEST NEWS

·       UNESCO declares environmental education must be a core curriculum component by 2025 Q&A: Inoculating against COVID-19 misinformation Over half of LGBTQI students in Europe bullied in school, says UNESCO report UNESCO urges making environmental education a core curriculum component in all countries by 2025 AI-enabled Voice Assistants: No longer female by default ·       Joining hands to inspire a positive culture of kindness Digital Games for Peace: Creativity, Innovation & Resilience TAGe Re-Imagining Education Series 3: Education and the Environment UNESCO and partners host high-level meeting and discussed the advancement of gender equality and inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean ·       LGBTI rights are human rights ·      “Nobody hears us” said a 17-year-old trans man about his experiences in school ·       Visualizing education systems around the world COVID‑19 highlights an opportunity for out-of-school children Counting the cost of COVID-19 on learning in rural Kenya

JUST PUBLISHED

Learn for our planet. A global review of how environmental issues are integrated in education Schools in the WAEMU area and COVID-19: impacts, innovations and recommendations Also available in French Global citizenship and liberation history in secondary curricula in Southern Africa: summary report on the findings of a desk review Also available in French and Portuguese Learn for our planet: a global review of how environmental issues are integrated in education; summary Also available in French and Spanish Developing a hybrid learning curriculum framework for schools Using ISCED diagrams to compare education systems   Mission: Recovering education in 2021 Also available in French and Spanish  Ce n’est pas (juste) une question d’emplois: l’éducation pour le bien-être économique Also available in French and Arabic L’impact du déplacement climatique sur le droit à l’éducation       No place for exclusion of LGBTI children and young people in education Curriculum globALE: competency framework for adult educators