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Category Archives: Africa
Colin Northmore: Helping immigrant students in South Africa exercise their right to education
Colin is one of many champions being highlighted by the GEM Report in the run up to the launch of its 2020 publication on inclusion and education: All means all, due out 23 June. In their own way, and in … Continue reading
Posted in access, Africa, Basic education, Human rights, immigrant, Inclusion
Tagged inclusion champions
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How traditional gender narratives can be used to advocate for girls’ and women’s education
By Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of the West of England “Education is very important for girls, women and for everyone. Education is the thing that will develop our country, and without education, the country will never go … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged equity, Gender, gender. equality, girls' education, South Sudan
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Schools closing is a risk to our village’s future
By Francis Silvester, director of a school in rural Kenya I run a private school called Tower of Light in a rural place commonly known as Yala Swamp 17km away from Siaya town in Kenya. It is a registered school … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Disaster preparedness, Gender, Out-of-school children, Rural areas, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, kenya, out of school
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“Every child is like any other” – Robert Lumu wins Inclusion and Education photo contest
Robert Lumu’s photograph of 9-year-old Jemba John, sitting and reading with his peers at his school in Central Uganda, where Albinism is still considered a curse, is the winner of the 2020 GEM Report photo competition on inclusion and education. … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, disability, Inclusion, right to education, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020 GEM Report, disability, Inclusion
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Ethiopia is making the fastest progress in primary completion in sub-Saharan Africa. How?
This week, we released new projections to 2030 for the global education goal, SDG 4, along with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). While not all projections can be drilled down to the country level, the completion rate projections can … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, monitoring, Primary school, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged ethiopia, high level political forum, HLPF, primary, primary education, SDG 4, SDGs
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Initial findings from the new Afrobarometer confirm that educated people are more likely to migrate
The Afrobarometer is a pan-African network that carries out face to face opinion surveys in more than 35 countries each year. The full data is due out later this year, but initial data from nine countries – Ghana, Benin, Côte … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, immigration, migration, Uncategorized
Tagged 2019 gem report, Africa, migration
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#FeesMustFall: Developments in South African Fees Struggles
by Dylan Barry, a post-graduate physics student at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He headed up the #FeesMustFall News Media task team in 2015, and the #FeesMustFall Economic Research task team in 2016 at the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Equality, Post-secondary education, tertiary education
Tagged finance, RTE campaign, south africa, Target 4.3
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From talking to creating jobs for Africa’s youth
By John Mugo, Director of Youth and Talent, ZiziAfrique The inaugural Africa Talks Jobs (ATJ) conference has just ended at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. This was an African Union-European Union (AU-EU) bilateral conversation to highlight that 2017 … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Skills, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, jobs, skills, skills training, Target 4.4, youth skills
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Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR
For the first time in forty years, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), released on Tuesday, focuses exclusively on education. We are pleased to see its core messages resonating so well with our past reports, especially the 2013/4 EFA … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, Quality of education, world bank
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Liberia’s children deserve the best education
By: Dr. Saaim W. Naame, Dean of Education at the University of Liberia. Over the last twenty years, the people of Africa’s first modern republic, Liberia, have been through two civil wars and a major virus epidemic. The wars caused … Continue reading