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UIS Launches R&D Survey
Research and experimental development (R&D) plays a pivotal role in driving a country’s economic growth and hence is instrumental in alleviating poverty. As part of the Sustainable Development...
May 2, 2020/by 310UIS Releases New Education Data and SDG 4 Indicators for 2018 School Year
New data on the world’s out-of-school children reveal little or no progress for more than a decade, with about 258 million children, adolescents and youth out of school in 2018: around one-sixth...
May 2, 2020/by 310Upcoming Meetings of the Global Alliance to Monitor Learning and the Technical Cooperation Group on the Indicators for SDG 4 – Education 2030
As the official data source for SDG 4, the UIS is working with countries and partners to build consensus around the measurement agenda, while developing the indicators, standards and tools needed...
May 2, 2020/by 310New Projections Show the World is Off Track in Meeting its Education Commitments by 2030
One-third of the way to the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals, new projections prepared by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring Report (...
May 2, 2020/by 310UIS and World Bank Join Forces to Help Countries Measure Student Learning
The World Bank and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) announced today a new partnership to help countries strengthen their learning assessment systems, better monitor what students are...
May 2, 2020/by 310Launch of the 2019 UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat Data Collection on Education
The UOE questionnaires collect data on formal education, including personnel, enrolment, graduates, source of funds, demographic data and class size.
Results of the survey will be released...
May 2, 2020/by 311Results of the survey will be released...
UIS COVID-19 Response: Data to Inform Policies that Mitigate Setbacks in Education Gains
Since the first cases were identified, the coronavirus outbreak has grown into a health crisis of global proportions that threatens lives and containment measures that disrupt our ways of living....
May 2, 2020/by 518New Survey Launched on Public Access to Information for SDG Target 16.10
As part of a UNESCO global initiative to track public access to information, the UNESCO Institute for...
May 2, 2020/by 310UIS Releases More Timely Country-Level Data for SDG 4 on Education
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has just updated its global database with more recent country-level data to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4...
May 2, 2020/by 310UIS Releases More Timely Country-Level Data for SDG 9.5 on R&D
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May 2, 2020/by 310Launch of the 2019 SDG 4 Data Digest
The need for accurate, current and comparable data on education has never been more urgent, with the prospects of reaching Sustainable Development Goal 4 – a quality education for all by 2030 –...
May 2, 2020/by 310Global Coalition for Education Data: Bringing Together Countries and Donors for SDG 4
Without a rapid shift from “business as usual”, one in six children aged 6-17 will still be out of school in 2030 while just six in ten youth will be completing secondary education. Moreover,...
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