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NEW GLOBAL INITIATIVES
Susan DurstonAssociate Director, Education, UNICEF
UNGEI GAC Meeting May 2012
New: SG’s Initiative
• This initiative has 3 bold priority areas: – To put every child in school by providing free basic education; – Ensure that there are quality outcomes by filling the teacher gap,
enhancing youth learning and skills development and Innovation; and – Foster global citizenship by making education more relevant and
responsive to contemporary and emerging challenges.
• UNICEF is on this Steering Committee and linking to this launch in September 2012 a high level technical panel on learning in a coalition of UNICEF, Hewlett Foundation, Brookings and UNESCO as the start of a pulsed high level advocacy push
Global Partnerships-Secretary-General’s Initiative
New: The Global Compact on Learning A global, multi-partner effort facilitated by the Center for Universal Education at Brookings providing a policy agenda and series of concrete steps for various actors to take to advance learning for all girls and boys in low-income countries; to support a paradigm shift in the global education agenda from access alone to access plus learning;
• The established Global Compact on Learning Metrics Task Force aims to catalyze a shared vision for common goals and targets in the education sector and inform the post-2015 global policy discourse; streamline data collection and improve country level learning assessments;
• UNICEF (Geeta Rao Gupta) one of three co-chairs• Issues: narrow focus on reading; doubt about global learning metric.
Global Partnerships-Global Compact on Learning
Learning Metrics Task Force
• What current efforts exist to compare learning standards across countries?
• Can learning standards be the same across all countries or only country-specific?
• What process should be used to develop global learning standards?
• What (if any) minimum standards can be agreed upon for global learning measurement