GCE 2009|Education on the brink

This report, written in the midst of the global economic crisis, makes the case for investment in education. It outlines the obstacles to expanding investment in education – and scrutinises how the traditional policy conditions and recent policy changes made by the...

GCE 2008 | School Report Card 2008; no excuses

We have scored rich country donors against their part of the Dakar promise, that ‘no country seriously committed to Education For All should be thwarted in this ambition for lack of resources.’ 22 OECD-DAC countries are ranked in this way and the picture created by...

GCE 2007 | School Report Card 2007; not up to scratch

Each year, GCE holds donor governments to account for their promises on education, using this ‘School Report’ as the method to benchmark their performance. In 2007, campaigners and learners, parents and children, were expecting to see rich nations race for the...

GCE 2006 | School Report Card 2006; underachievers

In this report, we examine the performance of donor nations in living up to their side of the commitments, using figures made available by the OECD Development Assistance Committee. We identify the stars and the stragglers; those who have made courageous efforts to...

GCE 2005 | School Report Card 2005; missing the mark

To reach the Millennium Development Goals on education, both developing and developed countries will have to work together to do more, do it faster, and do it better. The introduction to our 2005 report card reviews current aid to basic education against the promises...