Teacher salaries: A prerequisite for reform

All over the world, education as a profession is losing its appeal. For two years, an IIEP research team explored the issue of teacher career reforms in ten countries. One of the conclusions of this project stands out clearly: salary review is an indispensable prerequisite for any attempt to upgrade the status of teaching careers. Here is why.

COVID-19: Focus on education

UN Secretary-General António Guterres released the Education in the time of COVID-19 and beyond Policy Brief warning that the pandemic has created the most severe disruption in the world’s education systems in history and is threatening a loss of learning that may stretch beyond one generation of students.

Several hundred education experts from 86 countries convened online during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, an initiative of IIEP and Education Above All Foundation. See the NewsBriefs with concrete examples of opportunities for reform and innovative practices related to inclusion and equity in education, and ideas about what the future may look like for schools.

From exclusion to inclusion: A blind teacher in Kenya recounts his own education

Peter Nzioka, from Kenya, knows what exclusion in education feels like. After becoming blind as a baby, he faced many challenges in school – and missed years at a time. However, he fought the odds and today he has a special mission.
Read his story | Photos from his school

Corruption in education: New interactive map provides comparative country statistics

ETICO’s new interactive map provides comparative country-level statistics on corruption in education. With easy access to reliable data in one place, this map is a valuable resource for decision-makers and researchers. See it here.

One size does not fit all: The reality of the age-grade principle of schooling in the Global South

Is it time to rethink the age distribution of students? A new blog on the IIEP Learning Portal looks at this issue and explains why many children are unable to adapt to the school system.

Training: Educational planning & gender

The call for applications for the 2020 University IIEP-UNESCO Dakar on educational planning and gender (in French) is open until 13 September 2020. The training is free and will take place online (2-27 November) and in-person in Dakar, Senegal (7-11 December, if the sanitary situation allows it). Priority places are reserved for candidates from the G5 Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad).

International Literacy Day 2020

International Literacy Day (8 September) will focus on Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond with a focus on the role of educators and changing pedagogies.

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