06 Feb 2018
Critical Reflections on the 2018 World Development Report: If Learning is so Important then Why Can’t the World Bank Learn?
This post was prepared in response to the recent publication of the 2018 World Development Report, LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise, by... Read More
30 Nov 2017
Building Bridges to Link Global and National Learning Assessments by Silvia Montoya
Silvia Montoya (@montoya_sil) is the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS),... Read More
28 Sep 2017
News from Hamburg: Big Steps Forward Towards Reliable Metrics to Harmonise Learning Assessment Data Globally by Silvia Montoya and Dirk Hastedt
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Dirk Hastedt, Executive Director of the International Association for the... Read More
07 Aug 2017
“Learning, if you use it, increases”: a database of African education research to inform policy and practice by Rafael Mitchell and Pauline Rose
Rafael Mitchell is a Research Associate at the REAL Centre, University of Cambridge. Pauline Rose is Director at the REAL Centre, University... Read More
29 Jun 2017
Everything is in Place to Track Global Progress on Education: Except the Data by Silvia Montoya and Dankert Vedeler
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Dankert Vedeler, Co-Chair of the SDG Education 2030 Steering Committee The... Read More
12 Jun 2017
The Pressure is On! Powering Ahead with the Technical Cooperation Group for SDG 4 – Education 2030 Indicators by Silvia Montoya and Jordan Naidoo
By Silvia Montoya and Jordan Naidoo, Co-Chairs of the Technical Cooperation Group for SDG 4. The pressure is on! This is the... Read More
12 Apr 2017
The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: Imitating the OECD or Learning to Be Critical? By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye
By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye, Kyoto University, Japan. In February 2016, Director of UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Silvia Montoya wrote... Read More
23 Mar 2017
Why we need a Flagship Indicator for Education: all Children in School and Learning By Bridget Crumpton and Silvia Montoya
By Bridget Crumpton, the Education Commission, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. For the past year, we have been pushing for... Read More
13 Mar 2017
Unfinished Business in Global Education by Nicholas Burnett
By Nicholas Burnett, senior fellow, Results for Development Global education is not in good shape. There is too much unfinished business. I... Read More
31 Jan 2017
Transversal Competencies and their Assessment: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific by Ramya Vivekanandan
By Ramya Vivekanandan, UNESCO Bangkok. In today’s world, there is a growing sense that the real purpose of education is not only... Read More