Author: educommission
Notes from the field: Uganda’s response to the refugee crisis
Arua, Northern Uganda — We are on Uganda’s northern border with South Sudan. A beautiful area with rolling green hills scattered with small villages comprised of mud huts, mango trees and compact cotton and tobacco fields. As Chief Adviser to the Education Commission,...
Make or break moment beckons for education at G20 summit (Guardian)
From the article: Campaigners who believe funding for schooling in the world’s poorest countries has hit crisis levels say next month’s G20 meeting will be a “make or break” moment for education. The share of aid funding spent on education has fallen for the past six...
Aceleremos el progreso educativo (El País)
From the article on El País: Enfrentamos retos formidables. La población mundial aumentará en más de 2 mil millones de personas hacia 2050 y debemos ser capaces de garantizar mejores condiciones de vida para más personas, particularmente en los países en vías de...
Africa: from the Nairobi workshop, a newfound value for ‘ruthless prioritization’
The Ghanaian delegation at the Learning Generation Lab Workshop in Nairobi, from L to R: Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Special Assistant to the Minister of Education; Veronica Dzeagu, National Coordinator of Ghana National Education Campaign; Ernest Otoo, Head of...
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education (SSIR)
From the article: In transitioning to lower-middle-income status, countries can find themselves in a position similar to that of many middle-class American families struggling to finance their children’s college: They’re too poor to pay for education and too rich to...
Pakistan’s education financing—a glass half empty? (Geo.tv)
From the article: On March 28, 2014, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif publicly announced his commitment to raise the education budget to 4% of the GDP by 2018. His commitment was later reinforced when he endorsed the proposals of Gordon Brown,...
Back to Nairobi: Reflections on the Learning Generation Lab Workshop
Last week, I travelled to Nairobi to support our Learning Generation Lab Workshop. We brought together education leaders from twelve African countries to make real progress towards our shared education goals. This was an especially meaningful trip, as it was my first...
#WEFAfrica17: Education crisis ‘the civil rights struggle of the day’ (IOL)
From the article: Durban – Tanzania’s former president, Jakaya Kikwete, on Wednesday said the education crisis in Africa was today’s civil rights struggle, and called on leaders in the developed and developing worlds to act urgently. Kikwete was speaking at the World...