Author: Gwyther Rees

Rich countries let too many children fall behind in education

Rich countries let too many children fall behind in education

Data and research

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What level of inequality in children’s education should rich societies tolerate? There will always be inequality in children’s educational achievements, but our new study argues that we should look to the countries with the smallest gaps between the best- and worst-performing students, as some of these countries can show us how to… Read more →←

Gwyther Rees joined UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti in October 2017. He is working on the Report Card series on child well-being in rich countries. Gwyther is also currently an Associate Research Fellow at the University of York where he is Research Director for Children’s Worlds ¬– an international survey of children’s lives and well-being. He has a PhD (Social Sciences) from Cardiff University. Prior to his current roles, Gwyther was Research Director at The Children’s Society – an NGO in England – where his research focused on child protection and children’s subjective well-being