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Recentring Mathematics curricula in developing countries using the Global Proficiency Framework: Insights from Sierra Leone

by Siddharth Pillai | Jan 20, 2025 | Learning

7 out of 10 learners in Grade 2 and Grade 4 in Sierra Leone cannot add or subtract 2-digit numbers. The proportion of learners who score zero in these tasks does not drop as learners progress from Grade 2 to Grade 4 (ibid.). Read More

Educational aid and slavery reparation

by Mike Douse | Jan 15, 2025 | Decolonisation

What level and nature of reparations should be paid by the countries, institutions and descendants of those who perpetuated the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the countries, institutions and descendants of the enslaved? How much is ‘owed’, and on what basis may that be calculated; in what form should such reparations… Read More

The landscape of refugee education research: Complicit scholarship in violence, oppression and imperialism

by Maha Shuayb and Cathrine Brun | Jan 13, 2025 | Education and Migration

In this blog, we summarise insights from the research programme Decolonising Knowledge Systems. Specifically, we focus on the field of education of forced migrants and the rise and quick growth of the field over the past 20 years. Read More

Scalability of educational innovations in West Africa: The role of civil society organisations

by Leslie Casely-Hayford, Ricardo Sabates, Dr Adedeji and Fatu Yumkella | Jan 9, 2025 | Social Progress

Civil society and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been central in supporting education for some of the most disadvantaged children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read More