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Vocational Education First: State of the Education Report for India 2020; Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Year of publication: 2020 Author: Leena Chandran Wadia | Neela Dabir Corporate author: UNESCO New Delhi This report aims to capture the intense activity of the vocational education and training sector and highlights achievements and promising practices in India. The report makes important recommendations for reforms and for the use of TVET to empower youth to adapt to the post-COVID world. 
Higher Education's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Building a More Sustainable and Democratic Future (Council of Europe Higher Education Series; No. 25) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Sjur Bergan | Tony Gallagher | Ira Harkavy | Ronaldo Munck | Hilligje van’t Land Corporate author: Council of Europe Public health was the immediate concern when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in Asia, then in Europe and other parts of the world. The response of our education systems is no less vital. Higher education has played a major role in responding to the pandemic and it must help shape a better, more equitable and just post-Covid-19 world. This book explores the various responses of higher education to the pandemic across Europe and North America, with contributions also from Africa, Asia and South America.The book describes the various ways in which higher education is facing the Covid-19 pandemic. It is designed to help universities, specifically their staff and students as well as their partners, contribute to a more sustainable and democratic future. 
Global Gender Gap Report 2021: Insight Report, March 2021 Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: World Economic Forum The report is a measure of gender gap on four parameters: economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. The index has benchmarked 156 nations across the globe in 2021. The data show that it will take 135.6 years to bridge the gender gap worldwide and the pandemic has impacted women more severely than men. The gap is the widest on the political empowerment dimension with economic participation and opportunity being next in line. However, the gap on educational attainment and health and survival has been practically bridged. 
Making the Case For Inclusive Quality Physical Education Policy Development: A Policy Brief Year of publication: 2021 Author: Nancy McLennan Corporate author: UNESCO This evidence-based policy brief presents the benefits of investing in inclusive quality physical education (QPE) policy development. Content draws directly on findings from in-country interventions which demonstrate the value of inter-sectoral partnerships in QPE policy development and the delivery of low cost/high impact QPE programming which stands to accelerate post-COVID recovery efforts. A series of practical recommendations are included for public and private stakeholders in the sport-education ecosystem, alongside resources to support the implementation of recommendations. En defensa de un desarrollo inclusivo de políticas de educación física de calidad: Informe de políticas Year of publication: 2021 Author: Nancy McLennan Corporate author: UNESCO Este informe presenta los beneficios de la inversión en el desarrollo de políticas inclusivas de educación física de calidad (EFC). Su contenido se funda directamente en evidencias observadas durante intervenciones en países que demuestran la importancia de las asociaciones intersectoriales en el desarrollo de políticas de EFC y en la ejecución de programas de EFC de bajo costo y alto impacto que ayudarán a agilizar los esfuerzos de recuperación tras la COVID. Se incluye una serie de recomendaciones para socios de los sectores público y privado en el ecosistema deportivo – educativo, así como también recursos para apoyar la aplicación de las recomendaciones. 
Learning Through Play: Increasing Impact, Reducing Inequality Year of publication: 2021 Author: Amy Jo Dowd | Bo Stjerne Thomsen Corporate author: LEGO Foundation This study explores the role of play in contributing to the effort to promote learning and reduce inequality. Reviews of play’s importance for learning present mostly correlational evidence from small samples in high-income, developed contexts, most often the United States, and often under laboratory conditions. This review expands both the geographic breadth and the scale of this evidence and explores the use of play in early childhood classroom and home-based educational interventions that have demonstrated causal impact on learning and the closing of achievement gaps. By doing so, it aims to understand whether and how the evidence about play and learning relates to tackling the learning crisis, especially in terms of inequality in learning outcomes around the globe. 
Realizing the Future of Learning: From Learning Poverty to Learning for Everyone, Everywhere Year of publication: 2020 Author: Jaime Saavedra | Cristian Aedo | Omar Arias | Adelle Pushparatnam | Halsey Rogers | Marcela Gutierrez Bernal | Sanna Ellinore Ahlgren | Maria Qureshi Corporate author: World Bank This report describes the World Bank’s vision for the future of learning and a strategic approach that lays out the lines of actions needed for education systems to move forward in accelerating learning improvement. To guide its policy advisory and operational support to countries, the report discusses policy actions that are needed to accelerate learning and that characterize the way many successful systems operate. These are presented within five interrelated pillars of a well-functioning education system that underpin the World Bank’s strategic education policy approach: learners, teachers, learning resources, schools, and system management.This report also reviews the current learning crisis, including the extent to which COVID-19 has exacerbated it, and then lays out a vision, policy priorities and some principles for education policy reform. 
Internationalization of Tertiary Education in the Middle East and North Africa Year of publication: 2020 Author: Giulia Marchesini | Lise Barbotte | Paul Cahu | Aurelia Hoffmann | Holly Johnstone | Mirna Mehrez | Marco Pasqualini | Francisco Marmolejo Corporate author: World Bank This report draws on available data to respond to both a real need for regional analysis and a direct demand from stakeholders, including tertiary education institutions in MENA. Encouraging internationalization to be mainstreamed throughout MENA is the objective that this report seeks to achieve by way of stimulating regional policy dialogue on the subject. The report presents some global trends in internationalization and details its main benefits, before providing an overview of the current status of internationalization in the MENA region, including an in-depth analysis of student mobility. In its reflections on the way forward for the region, the report situates its recommendations in the context of COVID-19, within which, despite serious challenges due to a lack of attractiveness of the region, MENA may find a key opportunity. It suggests that adapting to the “new normal” through the deeper implementation of internationalization “at home” – a dimension that does not require physical mobility and, being implemented within domestic environments, has a much wider reach – may help enable the region to make strides towards catching up on the internationalization agenda. Internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur dans la région Moyen-Orient Afrique du Nord Year of publication: 2020 Author: Giulia Marchesini | Lise Barbotte | Paul Cahu | Aurelia Hoffmann | Holly Johnstone | Mirna Mehrez | Marco Pasqualini | Francisco Marmolejo Corporate author: World Bank Ce rapport s'appuie sur les données disponibles pour répondre à la fois à un réel besoin d'analyse régionale et à une demande directe des parties prenantes, y compris des établissements d'enseignement supérieur de la région MENA. Encourager le développement de l’internationalisation à travers la région MENA est l'objectif que ce rapport cherche à atteindre, en stimulant un dialogue régional sur les politiques publiques autour de ce sujet. Le rapport présente quelques tendances mondiales de l'internationalisation et détaille ses principaux avantages, avant de donner un aperçu de l'état actuel de l'internationalisation dans la région MENA, y compris une analyse approfondie de la mobilité étudiante. Parmi les recommandations proposées pour le développement de l’internationalisation, le contexte de la COVID-19 est vu, pour la région MENA, comme une fenêtre d’opportunité pour pallier au manque d'attractivité de la région dans ce domaine. Mettre l’accent sur l'internationalisation « à domicile » - une dimension qui ne nécessite pas de mobilité physique et qui se développe dans le cadre domestique, et a donc une portée plus large - pour s’adapter à la « nouvelle normalité » peut aider la région à rattraper son retard sur le plan de l’internationalisation. 
Open School Data: What Planners Need to Know; Ethics and Corruption in Education Year of publication: 2021 Author: Muriel Poisson Corporate author: UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) Open school data refers to the action of sharing school-level information with the general public, either in paper or electronic format. Generated by government authorities or civil society organizations, the data – often in the form of a school report card – can help monitor the services provided by a school. To be useful, data should be comprehensive, relevant, accurate, accessible, and timely. Topics covered can include funding, teacher attendance, student achievement, availability of facilities, equipment, and materials.