The Global Education Monitoring Report hosted and published by @UNESCO tracks worldwide progress towards UN global education targets.
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Time to 2030 is running out. Yet 273M children and youth are out of school.
But progress is possible: countries are expanding access at scale when equity is prioritized.
Every education story counts.
Join @EliudKipchoge, SEVENTEEN & Claire Danes in sharing yours!
#YourStoryCounts
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📅 Save the date!
Have gender gaps in education disappeared?
Join us at @UNESCO in Paris for the launch of the 2026 GEM Gender Report & the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education ceremony.
➡️ bit.ly/4heDhy3
#HerStoryCounts #DayOfTheGirl #HerEducationOurFuture
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How can education policy advance climate action?
Join us on 1 October, 5–6 PM AEST, for a #ClimateIQ panel exploring how policy makers can use evidence to inform climate education.
➡️ Register: shorturl.at/JP2QK
#LearnForOurPlanet #MECCE
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How is #SexualityEducation covered across 100 countries?
New #GEMReport and @UNESCO analysis looks at what laws and policies say, what is taught in schools, how teachers are prepared and how sexuality education is monitored.
Explore: bit.ly/peer-cse2026
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More children are entering school. Far fewer are completing it.
Globally, 1 in 3 students do not finish secondary school. At the current pace, universal completion would only be reached in the next century.
Explore the 2026 @GEMReport: bit.ly/gemreport2026
#YourStoryCounts
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Completion rates have improved since 2000:
Primary: 77% → 88%
Lower secondary: 60% → 78%
Upper secondary: 37% → 61%
Yet, at current rates, 95% upper secondary completion would only be reached by 2105.
Explore the 2026 @GEMReport: bit.ly/gemreport2026
#YourStoryCounts
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Young people are calling for climate change education to prioritize climate action.
On #WorldOzoneDay learn how education & communication can adapt to these demands in the #GEMReport @UNESCO & #MECCE @SEPNetwork report:
bit.ly/ccec2024
#GreeningEducation
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Democracy needs informed, active citizens. Education can build the knowledge, critical thinking and agency needed to participate, uphold rights and engage across differences.
Explore the links between education and democracy: unesco.org/gem-report/en/art…
#DemocracyDay
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🎒 As children head #BackToSchool, who returns, who keeps coming back and who completes?
From enrolment to absenteeism, repetition and completion, our #WorldEducationBlog series looks at where children are being left behind.
Explore the data: world-education-blog.org/
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📵 Phone bans in schools are going global.
In just 3 years, the share of countries restricting phones in schools jumped from 24% to 58%.
But what are these bans trying to fix and what might they miss?
Explore the data: bit.ly/4bubRjG
#DLW2026 #DigitalLearningWeek
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AI governance in education is about much more than preventing cheating.
Research points to 6 priorities: privacy, ethical use, equitable access, academic integrity, human oversight and AI literacy.
Explore on #WorldEducationBlog: bit.ly/4xPzH3p
#DigitalLearningWeek
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3,909 attacks on education were reported across 69 countries in 2024, the highest number since monitoring began in 2013.
Conflict devastates education systems and makes it much harder to know how many children are missing out.
Education is #NotATarget.
➡️ bit.ly/3UJI1TA
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When does AI support learning, and when does it start doing the learning for us?
New #PISA2025 findings show that students who did not use AI to draft writing assignments performed better than those who did.
Explore: bit.ly/4r5mAsn
#TechOnOurTerms #DigitalLearningWeek
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How do we govern AI in education?
As we mark #DigitalLearningWeek, hear from @UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, Qun Chen, on the choices that will shape how a whole generation learns, thinks and relates to technology and to each other.
Join the conversation. ⬇️
unesco.org/en/weeks/digital-…
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Global literacy rates are rising. But what do they really measure?
Being able to read a short sentence is not the same as understanding and using what you read.
If we set the bar too low, we risk overstating progress.
On #LiteracyDay, explore more:
bit.ly/4yprZwD
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The world has made progress on literacy, but not everywhere.
Since 2000, the number of illiterate youth has fallen by 40% globally, while rising in low-income countries.
More in the 2026 #GEMReport: bit.ly/4zZNBRZ
#LiteracyDay
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2105. That is when the world is projected to reach 95% upper secondary completion at the current pace.
Yet faster progress is possible. Some countries have transformed completion rates in a generation.
What can we learn from them?
bit.ly/3VhpQES
#BackToSchool
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Repeating a grade is meant to help children catch up. But it can increase the risk of dropping out.
Repetition rates have fallen by around two thirds in 20 years, yet challenges remain.
Our latest #BackToSchool #WorldEducationBlog looks at why: bit.ly/3UCIIxZ
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2030 is rapidly approaching. What should come next for global education?
Our #CountdownTo2030 policy dialogues will draw on evidence from the 2026 GEM Report and other GEM Report products to help inform the post-2030 education agenda.
➡️ bit.ly/3YcXA52
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A child rarely drops out of school overnight. It often starts with a missed day, then another.
Yet there are no comparable global statistics on absenteeism, a critical precursor to early school leaving.
More in our #BackToSchool #WorldEducationBlog series: bit.ly/4zSEq5B
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In many countries, children are going #BackToSchool. But 273 million children and young people remain #OutOfSchool.
Our new #WorldEducationBlog series looks at what access to education really means, starting with who gets to go to school:
bit.ly/4qQNofI
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