The new 2021/2 Global Education Monitoring Report on non-state actors in education, Who chooses? Who loses? is now available.
Launched this morning, the report shows the extent to which non-state actors are engaged in education, revealing that 350 million children and youth are now educated in non-state schools worldwide.
However, analysis of 211 new profiles on the report’s PEER website describing how each country in the world regulates non-state education provision shows that regulations tend to neglect equity. Only 55% of countries have regulations preventing selective admission procedures in non-state schools. Only 27% of countries prohibit explicitly profit making in primary and secondary schools, which runs counter to the commitment countries made for 12 years of free education for all. Only 7% of countries have quotas that enhance access to schools for disadvantaged students. Only half regulate private supplementary tuition.
Without adequate regulations on private education or the capacity to enforce them, the report warns that equity, inclusion and quality, the core principles on which SDG 4 is based, are at risk.
The report shows that households in poorer countries spend a disproportionate amount of their income to educate their children. Households account for 39% of education expenditure in low- and lower-middle-income countries compared to 16% in high income countries. As a result, 8% of families worldwide have to borrow to send their children to school.
The report invites policymakers to question relationships with non-state actors in terms of fundamental choices: between equity and freedom of choice; between encouraging initiative and setting standards; between groups of varying means and needs; between immediate commitments under SDG 4 and those to be progressively realized, and between education and other social sectors.Download the full report
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Watch the global launch event this Sunday at 10.25 GMT: Bit.ly/2021gemreport
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Join us at a launch event over the coming months
Sunday December 12, 5 AM GMT
RewirEd Summit Opening Plenary Session
H.E David Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and Chief Innovation Officer in Sierra Leone, also Chair of the GEM Report Advisory Board, will launch the report in his keynote address during the Opening Plenary of the RewirEd Summit in Dubai.
Sunday December 12, 10.25 AM GMT
RewirEd Summit High Level Panel
The Director of the Report, Manos Antoninis, will join Koumba Boly Barry, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Colm Brophy TD, Minister of State for Overseas Development and Diaspora, Ireland, David Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and Chief Innovation Officer, Sierra Leone, Fabio Segura, Chair, OECD netFWD Group and Co-CEO, Jacobs Foundation at an event moderated by Fiona Millar, Guardian journalist. Watch live online: bitly.com/2021gemreport
Tuesday 18 January 8:45 AM GMT
Education World Forum 2022
Selected findings from the new report will be presented at the 2022 Forum under the theme “Education: building forward together, stronger, bolder, better”. Further details will be available closer to the event.
Discuss the applications and implications of the report’s findings for your country/region by joining one of the upcoming national launch events:
Spain, Basque Country – December 15
Latvia – December 16
Austria – January 20
Finland – January 24
Netherlands – January 24
Denmark – January 25
Switzerland – February 3
Germany – February 15
United Kingdom – March
Norway – March
Contact us at gemevents@unesco.org for further information.
Make sure you follow the hashtag #RighttheRules to keep abreast of activities in your country or region.
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