DAKAR, Senegal — Thiany Dior usually rises before dawn, tiptoeing carefully as she leaves the cramped dormitory room she shares with a half-dozen other women. It was built for two. In the vast ...

Walk down into Aminata Sy’s West Philadelphia basement, and you’ll see color splashed on the walls. There are self-portraits and large, red suns drawn in crayon, as well as maps of Africa highlighting ...

Foundational learning comprises basic literacy, numeracy and transferable skills such as social and emotional skills, critical thinking and problem-solving. These skills are the bedrock and building ...

History is often taught as if formal education followed a single European path—from classical Greece to medieval monasteries to Renaissance universities—while Africa appears largely oral, informal, or ...

Millions of African children are left behind, their right to education unfulfilled – it is about education systems failing to ensure that children acquire foundational skills. The reality is sobering.

KIGALI, November 11, 2024 — Over 500 education leaders, including 28 ministers of education and ministerial representatives from 39 African countries, will gather in Kigali, Rwanda, from November ...

School-age children across Africa often don’t have access to a formal education. They may live in remote rural areas or in violence-plagued regions too dangerous for teachers to visit. Others can’t ...

A free-to-use eLearning platform backed by the German government has launched across 54 African countries following “substantial growth” in the continent’s e-learning market as a result of the ...

DAR ES SALAAM, March 5, 2018 - Africa faces a “severe learning crisis” that undermines economic growth and the well-being of its citizens, according to a new World Bank study. The region has made ...

Servaas van der Berg receives funding from the Millennium Trust, the National Research Foundation, the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies and the MS Dell Foundation. Chris van Wyk receives funding from ...

The Faculty & Staff Global Learning Lab: South Africa 2026 is a funded professional development opportunity designed to strengthen Purdue’s global engagement and expand high-quality study abroad ...