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SDG 4: Quality Education
SDG 4: Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
The Quality Education SDG: obtaining a quality education is the foundation to creating sustainable development. In addition to improving quality of life, access to inclusive education can help equip locals with the tools required to develop innovative solutions to the world’s greatest problems. The reasons for lack of quality education are due to lack of adequately trained teachers, poor conditions of schools and equity issues related to opportunities provided to rural children. For quality education to be provided to the children of impoverished families, investment is needed in educational scholarships, teacher training workshops, school building and improvement of water and electricity access to schools.
Example Opportunities
- Work-study programs, internships, traineeships, etc.
- Cost-effective education services
- Transforming teaching and leadership
- Applications that allow for improved job skills
- Applications to find access to pre-primary education (SDG 4.2.2)
- Applications to promote and enhance positive home learning environments (SDG 4.2.3)
Problem Statements from the Subject Matter Experts for Consideration
- Access to quality basic education and higher education among marginalized and vulnerable populations. | Dorine Lugendo
- To ensure inclusion of learners with special needs by integration into the general education system by provision of differentiated instruction. | Dorine Lugendo
- To provide a school re-entry option for young adults and youth who dropped out of school at the basic education level, a chance to complete their education for access to tertiary education and employment. | Dorine Lugendo
- Men and women have equal access to public services (like water, electricity, buses, polling stations), especially in lower income countries. | Samhir Vasdev
- People can discern fact from fiction online. | Samhir Vasdev
- Education technologies helping to close the worldwide gap in learning. | Nayla Zreik Fahed
- New generation of teachers. | Nayla Zreik Fahed
- Emergency Education Response initiatives need cooperation in order to achieve a better impact. | Nayla Zreik Fahed
- Accessible (mobile) online learning designed for the African continent giving unprecedented education and skills development opportunities for disadvantaged young people. | Gavin Weale
- "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” (UNESCO, 2017, p. 403) | Chelsea B. Han
- “All people, ‘irrespective of sex, age, race, ethnicity, and persons with disabilities, migrants, indigenous peoples’, should have access to lifelong learning opportunities.” (UNESCO, 2017) | Chelsea B. Han
- Measure long term results and impact in students' lives, with a focus on those that have completed capacity building programs online. | Rodgrigo Baggio
- Facilitate access to edutech activity plans that fit the specifics and demands of an educator. | Rodgrigo Baggio
UN Resources
These datasets are official statistics generated by the UN and its affiliated organizations and programs:
- Education Indicators for SDG 4: Quick guide and overview of the SDG4 metrics
- SDG 4 Data Book: Report that provides an overview of trends for the various indicators
- UNESCO - Data for SDGs: Reports on progress for the indicators
- World Inequality Database on Education: Simple visualizations of existing data on education indicators
- Global SDG Indicators Database: 17 years of data on the sub-indicators/metrics for each SDG
- SDG API Highways: New project from Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data to provide a central repository for partner SDG data
- Worldbank World Development Indicators: The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources
- Sustainable Development Goals database: World Bank visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics directly relating to the SDGs
Additional data resources
These datasets were independently created/aggregated by non-UN related parties. These can serve as additional references and are not endorsed by Facebook.
- Facebook High-Resolution Population Maps: Analysis that generated high-resolution populations for most of Africa
- SDG.DATA.GOV: US Government effort to share data on the SDGs
- OECD Stats: Economic information from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- GeoNames Data Sources: Geographical database that covers all countries and contains over eleven million location names
- Data.world Datasets: An open data platform that relies on open sharing and analysis of diverse datasets
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