Category Archives: Africa

First generation graduate Mary Otieno: From rural Kenya to a PhD in education

Posted on 6 November 2020 by

This story is part of a campaign run by the GEM Report, #Iamthe1stgirl, to accompany the launch of the 2020 GEM Gender Report. The campaign tells the stories of many girls who were the first in their family to graduate, … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged | 3 Comments

Colin Northmore: Helping immigrant students in South Africa exercise their right to education

Posted on 2 June 2020 by

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 | 6 Comments

How traditional gender narratives can be used to advocate for girls’ and women’s education

Posted on 30 April 2020 by

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 →

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Schools closing is a risk to our village’s future

Posted on 22 April 2020 by

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 , , , | 2 Comments

“Every child is like any other” – Robert Lumu wins Inclusion and Education photo contest

Posted on 10 April 2020 by

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 , , | 3 Comments

Ethiopia is making the fastest progress in primary completion in sub-Saharan Africa. How?

Posted on 12 July 2019 by

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 , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Initial findings from the new Afrobarometer confirm that educated people are more likely to migrate

Posted on 13 July 2018 by

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 →

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#FeesMustFall: Developments in South African Fees Struggles

Posted on 19 December 2017 by

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 →

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From talking to creating jobs for Africa’s youth

Posted on 10 November 2017 by

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 →

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Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR

Posted on 28 September 2017 by

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 , , , | 2 Comments