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SDG 4 Scorecard: Progress Report on National Benchmarks; Focus on Teachers Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Statistic (UIS) | Global Education Monitoring Report Team This is the second assessment of country progress towards the benchmarks, or national targets, that countries have set for eight SDG 4 indicators to mark their contribution to the global targets. The assessment covers the period since 2015 and reviews the probability that each country will achieve its 2025 benchmark or – where such a benchmark was not set – the value they would have achieved if they had progressed at the historic (2000–15) rate of the fastest improving 25% of countries.The 2024 SDG 4 Scorecard finds that progress towards national targets is off track for most indicators. In two cases – the gender gap at the expense of boys in upper secondary education completion and public education expenditure as share of total public expenditure – countries are even moving backwards.In contrast, progress is faster in the eighth benchmark indicator, school internet connectivity, which was added following the priority given to digital transformation at the Transforming Education Summit in 2022. One third of countries set national targets in 2023 and progress on the indicator is being reviewed for the first time in this edition.Progress is also relatively fast in the percentage of teachers with minimum required qualifications, which is also the focus indicator of this edition. New evidence is presented on national policies for minimum required qualification levels to enter the teaching profession, compulsory continuous professional development policies, and teacher training policies on technology in education. 
Transforming Education Towards SDG4: Report of a Global Survey on Country Actions to Transform Education; Highlights Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO In 2022, the United Nations Transforming Education Summit responded decisively to mobilize action, ambition and solidarity as well as to elevate education to the top of the political agenda. This powerful mobilization led to 143 countries presenting national statements of commitment, demonstrating their political resolve to reimagine and transform their education systems. On the Summit’s fi rst anniversary, UNESCO invited its Member States to participate in the Survey on Country Actions to Transform Education and report on how they have translated their commitments into actions. This document presents highlights from the Transforming Education Towards SDG 4: Report of a global survey on country actions to transform education. It showcases transformative actions that countries have undertaken to accelerate progress towards SDG 4. The report emphasizes that education must adopt a holistic, lifelong and comprehensive approach that addresses the development and well-being of individual learners and society. Transforming education requires placing inclusion, equity and gender equality at the core of policies and interventions. It also requires more and better education fi nancing, and investments in the teaching profession. 
SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee: Making Higher Education More Inclusive, July 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO The rapid expansion of higher education in the past two decades, as well as the growing diversity of providers and technological models for delivering education, have made higher education accessible to more students globally. Yet significant barriers remain for many vulnerable groups, and women still lag behind in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A better understanding of inequality as well as new paradigms, strategies and a renewed political will for ‘leaving no one behind’ are required. Structural equity policies at all levels throughout the education system, as well as extraordinary measures when needed, should ensure that students from any background with the potential to succeed are fully integrated with equal opportunities into higher education. This policy paper reviews the current literature and sets out findings and recommendations to increase and strengthen equity and inclusion in higher education in a lifelong learning perspective. It provides a conceptual framework for equity and inclusion, analyses the urgent need to improve funding and its efficiency, provides insight into the challenges for teaching and teachers, and recommends policy measures for establishing higher education systems that are more equitable and more inclusive. 
SDG 4 Midterm Review: Monitoring Implementation of SDG 4 Target 4.1. ~ 4.c. in Rep. of Korea Year of publication: 2023 Author: Hunwoo Joo | Mikyung Kim | Mugyeong Moon | Jeongwon Hwang | Kirak Ryu | Hyeseung Cho | Yunjeong Choi | Hyosook Shin | Kyungsook Kang | Minseon Park | Eunju Lee | Jonghun Kim | Nayoung Kim | Hwanbo Park | Hannah Kim Corporate author: National Consultative Group on Education 2030 | Korean National Commission for UNESCO This report presents the compiled work from the National Consultative Group and Working Groups on Education 2030 of the Republic of Korea regarding the midterm review on the implementation of SDG 4. 
SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee’s Key Messages for the Pact for the Future Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee Education is a fundamental human right and a public good. Quality education and lifelong learning provides individuals with knowledge, skills, and values to lead a meaningful and productive life, and thus it is essential for personal development, empowerment and wellbeing. Education has a transformative power and drives progress across all Sustainable Development Goals. Investing more, more equitably and more efficiently in education transforms the future of humanity and the planet. The Pact for the Future must put education at its center. 
Education Finance Watch 2024 Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: Global Education Monitoring Report Team | UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) | World Bank The Education Finance Watch (EFW) is a collaborative effort between the World Bank, the GEM Report, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The EFW aims to provide an analysis of trends, patterns, and issues in education financing around the world. The EFW uses various sources of education, economic, and financial data from the World Bank, UIS, the International Monetary Fund, and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 
SDG4 이행 촉진을 위한 지표 연구 Year of publication: 2025 Author: 박근영 | 주형미 | 문무경 | 오예진 | 류기락 | 조혜승 | 변종임 | 지선미 | 이슬비 | 박기웅 | 안해정 | 서무계 Corporate author: 유네스코한국위원회 지속가능발전목표(SDGs) 이행의 전환점을 맞아 국내 교육의 현황과 과제를 SDG4 지표를 통해 진단하고 향후 방향을 탐색한 연구 보고서 <목차> 발간사 ‘SDG4 이행 촉진을 위한 지표 연구’ 보고서를 발간하며 서론 현 시점의 SDG4 이행 수준 점검과 개선 방향 탐색의 당위성 SDG 4.1 공평하고 양질의 초·중등 교육 이수 보장에 대한 한국 현황 및 향후 과제 SDG 4.2 영유아 교육과 보육 지표 검토와 향후 과제 SDG 4.3 고등교육의 수월성과 형평성 논의 및 향후 과제 SDG 4.4 고용을 위한 스킬: SDG 4.4의 이행 현황과 과제 SDG 4.5 교육 형평성 실현을 위한 SDG 4.5 지표 검토와 이행 현황 분석 SDG 4.6 한국의 SDG 4.6 이행 현행과 과제: 성인 문해력 SDG 4.7 더불어 살기 위한 학습을 향하여: 세계시민교육 및 지속가능발전교육 이행 현황과 모니터링 개선 방안 탐색 SDG 4.a SDG 4.a.1과 한국 디지털 교육 이행 현황: 접근성, 사용도, 스킬 SDG 4.b 공적개발원조(ODA) 장학금 확대 SDG 4.c 자격을 갖춘 교사의 공급 관련 이행 현황 및 개선 방안 결론 엄격한 현실 인식에 기반한 다음 목표로의 이행 준비 
Global Education Meeting: Fortaleza Declaration; Unlocking the Transformative Power of Education for Peaceful, Equitable and Sustainable Futures Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Brazil. Ministry of Education The 2024 Global Education Meeting (GEM), held in Fortaleza, Brazil, marked a significant milestone in the global pursuit of education equity and financing, with the adoption of the powerful Fortaleza Declaration by over 650 participants including over 50 Ministers from across the globe. 
Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation: Transforming Education and Delivering on SDG 4 Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: UNESCO | United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) | UN. Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) Quality Education: South-South cooperation as a lever for action. This publication showcases 40 innovative solutions on how South-South and Triangular Cooperation can transform education.South-South and triangular cooperation is at the heart of SDG4 implementation on Quality Education. As demonstrated in the last few years, this kind of cooperation can mobilize action, ambition, solidarity and solutions to transform education in a rapidly changing world. From the inclusive approach to digital learning in Lao People’s Democratic Republic to distance learning and teacher training strategies in Caribbean SIDS, South-South cooperation is a key modality of cooperation for transforming education and supporting internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda. This publication showcases 40 innovative solutions on how South-South and Triangular Cooperation can transform education.This publication presents forty innovative solutions from around the world which showcase how South-South and triangular cooperation can support the development of more efficient, equitable and resilient education systems that are adapted to the challenges of the 21st century. Countries of the South, with the support of partners, must enhance South-South and triangular cooperation to exchange resources, technology, skills and knowledge to realize the promise of making inclusive, quality education available to all. 
Literacy for Empowerment and Transformation: Report of the Secretary-General Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: United Nations | UNESCO The present report is submitted in fulfilment of the request made by the General Assembly, in its resolution 77/192, that the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), submit to the Assembly at its seventy-ninth session a report on the implementation of the resolution. The Assembly also invited UNESCO to continue its mandated role to lead and coordinate the Education 2030 Agenda and requested UNESCO to continue its coordinating and catalysing role through the implementation of the strategy of the Global Alliance for Liter acy and by continuing to provide support to Member States. The present report provides an overview of the global literacy landscape, highlighting progress, key challenges and recommendations for further promotion of literacy as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the follow-up to the Transforming Education Summit and beyond.