Lead for inclusion: 2025 GEM regional report for Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

UNESCO has launched its 2025 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) regional report for Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The report, entitled ‘Lead for inclusion’, focuses on the importance of school leadership for inclusive education systems. It outlines progress in inclusive education systems across the region in recent years and describes new challenges that have arisen, many resulting from language differences, ethnicity, migration and displacement.