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Speaker: Priyadarshani Joshi, Research Officer at the Global Education Monitoring Report team, UNESCO
About the talk: This presentation will discuss the contents of the 2017/18 Global Education Monitoring Report - Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments. It will discuss progress in achieving SDG 4 on education, and key findings from the Report’s accountability analysis.
The Global Education Monitoring Report is developed by an independent team and published by UNESCO. It has the official mandate of monitoring progress in meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: ensuring inclusive, equitable and good-quality education and lifelong learning for all.
The 2017/18 Report’s theme, Accountability in Education: Meeting Our Commitments, evaluates the role of accountability in global education systems. The report examines different accountability mechanisms that are used to hold governments, schools, teachers, parents, the international community, and the private sector accountable for inclusive, equitable and quality education. These include regulations, testing, monitoring, audits, media scrutiny and grass root movements. Through the analysis, the Report develops recommendations on accountability mechanisms to help build stronger education systems.
About the speaker: Priyadarshani Joshi is a Research Officer at the Global Education Monitoring Report team. Some of her core areas of interest and contribution in the team include education’s role in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and urban development, gender, and the role of the private sector. She has a PhD in Education Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her personal research agenda focuses on the consequences of private sector growth for the public sector, parental choice, and systemwide equity in lower income countries, building on her doctoral research in her home country of Nepal. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration (Economic Policy) from Princeton University, and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Chemistry from Amherst College. Her previous professional backgrounds included research positions at the IMF and consultancies at UNICEF and the World Bank. Priya also initiated, co-designed and was part of the board of an innovative mobile library project in Nepal, one of the World Bank Development Marketplace 2003 Education Sector Project winners.