Without urgent action, short-term learning losses could stunt the next generation of students for a lifetime.
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While COVID-19 has held back learning, the pandemic presents a historic opportunity to revamp education systems.
Ghanaian university students hope to return home after studies abroad.
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Ghanaian students are losing patience with the lack of opportunities after graduation.
COVID-19 has further revealed the systemic challenges that higher education students living with disabilities face.
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Students with disability continue to face dire exclusion in education and there is an urgent need to provide inclusive education for them.
Kenya’s universities face huge challenges going digital.
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The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going away any time soon. Kenya’s universities must adapt.
Examining the impact of school closures on educational outcomes.
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While the loss of contact learning time can be quantified, it’s more difficult to quantify the effect of school closures on learning outcomes.
Kenyan teacher Ayub Mohamed giving a lesson in the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh.
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What Kenya should focus on is providing in-service professional development to improve student learning outcomes.
An unaccompanied foreign minor does lessons provided by a volunteer in a park in Toulouse, France, October 2017.
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Governments and agencies should prepare second chance opportunities for formal education as emergency situations may last for several years and create a backlog of education.
Sexual and reproductive health education is a key component in a multifaceted.
approach to address the sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents
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The inclusion of new topics in Ghana’s comprehensive sex education curriculum has split opinions among parents.
Pupils from a Nairobi informal settlement take the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam at a local centre.
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No single factor can entirely account for students’ persistence and it’s important to take an integrated approach to keep more children in school.
Children in a classroom at a rural school in Kenya.
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There are concerns that the longer girls spend out of school, the more they are at risk of dropping out.
Muslim-based schools have retained the same racial and cultural exclusivity that was enforced during apartheid.
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Pupils who aren’t exposed to different perspectives won’t be equipped to participate in and contribute to a democratic society.
As technology - and the data that drives it - becomes more integral in education, policies will need to shift.
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Data underlies the kinds of applications that are proposed for use in the country’s education system.
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The inequalities in South Africa’s education are systematically being exposed at a scale not experienced before.
Children reading in school.
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Inadequate public education on a new language policy has generated resistance from parents at the early childhood education level in Ghana.
Students like these only stand a chance with proper resource allocation.
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Achieving the sustainable development goals on education in Ghana requires efficient resource allocation, not necessarily more money.