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Tools to Help Countries Measure Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is a key component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with Target 4.4 aiming to increase the share of youth and adults with relevant technical and vocational skills for...
May 2, 2020/by 311New Study: Costs and Benefits of Different Approaches to Measure Learning
The UIS has released a new study to help countries and...
May 2, 2020/by 310The UIS Launches 2020 Education Survey
The 2020 Survey of Formal Education covers key data for the school year ending in 2019 required for the monitoring of international and national education goals.
Following the adoption of...
May 2, 2020/by 310Following the adoption of...
World Teachers Day 2019
To mark World Teachers Day, the UIS has released a new edition of its eAtlas of Teachers, which presents a wide range of data and indicators based on results of the Institute’s...
May 2, 2020/by 310UIS 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 310Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures – Due 7 May 2020
As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank are jointly launching the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-...
May 2, 2020/by 518UIS 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 –...
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