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Research
Research project in progress

Reaching the Unreached: Skills Development Policies and the Promise of ICT – A Scoping Study from India and South Africa

Michel Carton
News
30th May 2018

Global governance and ‘technologies of expertise’

Global Governance Centre and Gita Steiner-Khamsi
4
Research
Research project in progress

The Impact of Compulsory School Laws in a Developing Country Context: Examining Impacts and Explanations in Sub-Saharan Africa

Martina Viarengo and Centre for International Environmental Studies
45
Events
1 March, 2021

Decolonising the Curriculum and Racism in Academia

Gender Centre
News
10th January 2022

How the COVID Pandemic Is Shifting International Knowledge Production from Global to Local

Gita Steiner-Khamsi
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Publications
Working paper, November 2015

The Global Targeting of Education and Skill: Policy History and Comparative Perspectives

Michel Carton
News
13th March 2019

Walking the SDGs in Europe, from theory to action

Global Health Centre
Teaching
Academic courses

Advanced Development Macroeconomics: Empirical Research

Martina Viarengo
Events
9 February, 2023

Advocacy in International Affairs Q&A

Online
Executive Education, Davide Rodogno and Matteo Guidotti
417
News
7th December 2017

What role should philanthropy play in education?

Gita Steiner-Khamsi
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News
6th October 2020

Why more inclusive measures are needed to address COVID-19?

Global Governance Centre
48
Publications
Working paper, November 2014

Post-2015 and the Global Governance of Education and Training

Michel Carton
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Goal 4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all which, according to the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, will require “increasing efforts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia and for vulnerable populations, including persons with disabilities, indigenous people, refugee children and poor children in rural areas”. The promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all is another aspect of the goal. Read more about Goal 4

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Target 4.1

By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes

Target 4.2

By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and preprimary education so that they are ready for primary education

Target 4.3

By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

Target 4.4

By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

Target 4.5

By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

Target 4.6

By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

Target 4.7

By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

Target 4.a

Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all

Target 4.b

By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries

Target 4.c

By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing states