Browsing by Author "UNESCO Institute for Statistics"

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    • A place to learn : lessons from research on learning environments 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO. UIS, 2012)
      This report was originally drafted as part of an activity undertaken by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics for the purpose of informing the international education community on new pathways for assessing and improving the ...

    • Adult and Youth Literacy 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2015)
      The report presents the latest available literacy data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Globally, the number of people unable to read and write a simple sentence continues to fall, but trends vary considerably ...

    • Adult and Youth Literacy : National, regional and global trends, 1985-2015 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2013)
      Presents data by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on adult and youth literacy in 151 countries and territories from eight regions: Arab States, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia and the Pacific, ...

    • Education and Disability 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-02)
      The notion of equity is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 4 on education. Analysis of disparities linked to disability has long been a challenge due to a scarcity of reliable and comparable ...

    • Education and Disability : Analysis of Data from 49 Countries 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2018-03)
      This paper examines educational disparities linked to disability based on data from 49 countries and territories for five education indicators: Proportion of 15- to 29-year-olds who ever attended school, Out-of-school ...

    • Estimation of the numbers and rates of out-of-school children and adolescents using administrative and household survey data 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2016-10)
      In the last decade or so, education data from household surveys have been used to complement, supplement and sometimes even substitute for country administrative data on participation and non-participation in schooling. ...

    • Exploring Commonalities and Differences in Regional and International Assessments 

      Treviño, Ernesto; Órdenes, Miguel; UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-11)
      The global leaders of our world set 17 Sustainable Development Goals to improve the quality of people’s lives everywhere by 2030. In the context of the knowledge society, achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in ...

    • Hacia un aprendizaje universal: un marco internacional para medir el aprendizaje: resumen ejecutivo 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Brookings Institution (USA). Center for Universal Education (UNESCO. UIS, 2013)
      La UNESCO, a través de su Instituto de Estadística (UIS, por su sigla en inglés) y el Centro de Educación Universal (CUE, por su sigla en inglés) de la Institución Brookings han convocado en conjunto al proyecto de la ...

    • Learning Divides : Using Data to Inform Educational Policy 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2018-09)
      Three premises underlie the approach taken in this report. First, the development of children’s reading skills needs to be the primary focus of educational monitoring systems. It is a pre-requisite for the development of ...

    • Literacy Rates Continue to Rise from One Generation to the Next 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-09)
      Although literacy has been high on the development agenda over the past decades, UIS data show that 750 million adults – two-thirds of whom are women – still lack basic reading and writing skills, according to the latest ...

    • Monitoring Education Participation : Framework for Monitoring Children and Adolescents who are Out of School or at Risk of Dropping Out 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics; UNICEF (UNICEF, 2016-12)
      An estimated 61 million children of primary-school age, 60 million young adolescents of lower-secondary school age and 142 million of upper secondary age are out of school, based on the latest figures as of 2016. The ...

    • More Than One-Half of Children and Adolescents Are Not Learning Worldwide 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-09)
      This paper presents the first estimates for a key target of Sustainable Development Goal 4, which requires primary and secondary education that lead to relevant and effective learning outcomes. By developing a new methodology ...

    • One in Five Children, Adolescents and Youth is Out of School 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2018-02)
      In 2016, 263 million children, adolescents and youth were out of school, representing nearly one-fifth of the global population of this age group. The number of children, adolescents and youth who are excluded from education ...

    • Reducing global poverty through universal primary and secondary education 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-06)
      The eradication of poverty and the provision of equitable and inclusive quality education for all are two intricately linked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As this year’s High Level Political Forum focuses on ...

    • Sustainable Development Goal for Education cannot advance without more Teachers 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2015)
      New projections, released on World Teachers’ Day by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), show that massive teacher shortages will continue to deny millions of children the right to primary education without renewed ...

    • The Cost of not assessing learning outcomes 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2016-01)
      Recently, the international community has gone a step further in monitoring education by attempting to measure learning. Currently there is no single approach or best way to monitor learning internationally. However, the ...

    • The data revolution in education 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2017-03)
      This paper recommends a data revolution in education built on the foundation of national statistical systems, supported by international organizations in a global compact for monitoring the education SDG. In this compact, ...

    • The effect of varying population estimates on the calculation of enrolment rates and out-of-school rates 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UNESCO, 2016-10)
      Enrolment rates are calculated by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) from a combination of i) enrolment figures provided by Member States; and ii) population estimates from the UN Population Division. Using different ...

    • Toward universal learning: a global framework for measuring learning 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Brookings Institution (USA). Center for Universal Education (UNESCO. UIS, 2013)
      La UNESCO, a través de su Instituto de Estadística (UIS, por su sigla en inglés) y el Centro de Educación Universal (CUE, por su sigla en inglés) de la Institución Brookings han convocado en conjunto al proyecto de la ...

    • Toward universal learning: what every child should learn 

      UNESCO Institute for Statistics; Brookings Institution (USA). Center for Universal Education (2013)
      La UNESCO, a través de su Instituto de Estadística (UIS, por sus siglas en inglés) y el Centro de Educación Universal (CUE, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Institución Brookings han convocado en conjunto al proyecto de la ...