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Executive summary

In taking up the Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency, the Government of India has proposed four priority areas under the G20 Education Working Group (EdWG). These include:

• ensuring that all children are set up for life with foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) and can enjoy opportunities for lifelong learning, by improving teaching and learning practices, including through blended learning;
• leveraging digital resources and technologies to accelerate progress in education;
• understanding how education systems will be impacted by the future of work, and strengthening their relevance and linkages;
• promoting closer collaboration between higher education, the research and development sector and societies, both within and across national boundaries.

To this end, the G20 EdWG has underscored the interconnectedness of the challenges and opportunities in member states, and the importance of collaboration to achieve the G20 Indian Presidency’s goal of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (One Earth, One Family, One Future). The Presidency has shed light on the role of the G20 mechanism in providing strong leadership and inspiration to address challenges, including the role of education-driven economic and social development in the transition toward greener and digital economies.Furthermore, it has identified three cross-sectoral and transversal levers – digital transformation, sustainable transition to a green economy and women-led development – as accelerators for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in education. These are considered boosters for equitably expanding access to education, transforming teaching and learning practices for an increasingly technological, interconnected and knowledge-driven world, and enabling evidence-based decision-making and monitoring in education. Across the board, bold and scalable responses are still needed to address the global learning crisis. The G20 countries have expertise, experiences, key lessons learned and promising practices to share among themselves and with other countries, to drive transformation and change at the global, regional and national levels. In this light, G20 members and invited countries were requested to provide information on their education policies and practices as part of the EdWG meetings, responding to questionnaires and participating in seminars and exhibitions organized prior to each working group meeting. Such sharing of information supports peer learning and discussions around successful programming. Policies and programmes selected from among the information gathered from the countries are highlighted below, as well as in the report’s thematic chapters.