An overhaul of the examination system in Nepal focuses on standardisation of exams and assessing higher order thinking skills at the end of basic education. Nepal has undergone a long and complex transition towards establishing federalism in recent years. The new structure of governance offers opportunities and challenges for the education sector.

UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to close the learning data gaps that still exist and that preclude many countries to monitor of the quality of their education systems and assess if their students are learning. The three organizations have agreed to a Learning Data Compact, a commitment to ensure that all countries, especially low-income countries, have at least one quality measure of learning by 2025, supporting coordinated efforts to strengthen national assessment systems.

In today’s knowledge-based society, 21st century skills are considered important for success. As such, the integration of these skills into education systems has become a key interest area for policymakers around the world.

Fluency is often discussed by elementary teachers simply as the rate of words read aloud per minute, although the full definition includes reading accuracy plus voice tone and inflection. It’s an important measure of student reading success, and as students move through grades, poor fluency becomes increasingly serious.

The issue is how we implement alternative assessment in a remote rural setting where learners or teachers face the problem of inaccessibility as compared to the affluent urban settings.

A generation of young people is at risk of being channelled into low-skilled and low-paying jobs, with disrupted learning through the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating socio-economic fault lines in Australia’s education system.

Learners of the Basic Education Equivalency Programme (BEEP) sit final exams despite the challenges due to Covid-19 pandemic. On 5 March and 5 June 2021, two online final examinations were organized successfully for 108 learners, 37 of whom are females, from Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey, Koh Kong, Ba…

Few groups have been less vulnerable to the coronavirus than school children, but few groups have been more affected by the policy responses to contain this virus. The crisis has exposed the many inadequacies and inequities in our school systems…

According to the UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, for data to be used effectively, they must be actionable, available to all who are in a position to act and presented in an appropriate form for each group of stakeholders. Unfortunately, in some contexts, education data are…

The coronavirus pandemic has seriously upended the education system. Along with the shift from classrooms to computer screens almost all aspects of learning are being tested. Format of instruction, attendance, evaluation, the role of technology, and human interaction are all being re-imagined and there is a growing possibility that some of these changes will last.