Subject Guides: Sustainable Development Goals at NSCC: Goal 4: Quality Education

About Goal 4

Goal 4, Quality Education, aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal focuses on eliminating discrimination and creating opportunities for everyone to obtain a primary and secondary education. Goal 4 also seeks to increase education for sustainable development (ESD) which would equip each learner with the ability to understand and participate in sustainable development.

Learn more about Goal 4

The Global Goals. (2022, July 6). Transform education with the world's largest lesson [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/fE9dYM-P_l0

Resources and Links

Global Campaign for Education
The GCE is a civil society movement, representing over 100 national and regional education coalitions, that aims to end exclusion in education
Statistics Canada: Youth and Education in Canada
A broad overview of the educational situation of Canadian youth (Release date: October 4, 2021).
UNESCO: Education transforms lives
UNESCO responds to contemporary global challenges through education with gender equality as an underlying principle
World Vision: Girls' education: Facts and how to help
Learn more about the importance of female education and protecting girls’ education rights

Books

eBook - Education for sustainable development: Challenges, strategies, and practices in a globalizing world by Nikolopoulou et. al
This collection provides multiple perspectives regarding the possibility of creating sustainable education practices that are integrated into and relevant to needs on a global scale.
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
A remarkable tale of the fight for girls' education in Pakistan.
eBook - What works in girls' education by Sperling et. al
Hard-headed evidence on why the returns from investing in girls are so high that no nation or family can afford not to educate their girls.

Key Organizations

Institute of International Education
IIE’s mission is to help people and organizations leverage the power of international education to thrive in today’s interconnected world.
People for Education
Mission: to strengthen a universal public education system (Ontario and beyond) that graduates all young people with the skills and competencies they need to contribute to a fair and prosperous society.
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO uses education, science and culture to inform, inspire and engage people everywhere to foster understanding and respect for each other and our planet.