Tag: marginalisation

Striking a balance between the individual and the community through an extended understanding of marginalisation

by Jennifer Agbaire, Kris Stutchbury and John Phiri | Oct 14, 2024 | Learning

The story of Joseph and his volunteer colleagues is not unusual. Until 2022, 25% of primary schools in Zambia were classed as ‘community schools,’ established by local communities, often in remote locations, to ensure that their children could attend school. Read More

I AIN’T NO AFTERTHOUGHT: Challenging the non-prioritisation of the educational rights of children with disabilities

by UKFIET | Jan 16, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Education and Disabilities

This blogpost presents a poem that Basirat Razaq-Shuaib delivered at the 2023 UKFIET Conference. The poem draws attention to the non-prioritisation of children with disabilities...

Girls and climate justice education: Experience from two initiatives

by Alice Saisha, Catherine Boyce and Fernanda Gándara | Dec 6, 2023 | Climate Change, Girls' Education

Young people in rural Africa produce minimal carbon emissions, yet are on the frontline of the crisis. Their experiences of the climate crisis in their daily lives include flooding, damage to their schools, reduced productivity of smallholder plots and hunger, which affects their ability to learn. Read More

Prioritising rights, equity and inclusion for marginalised groups in TVET

by Priscilla Gatonye and Nickola Browne | Nov 9, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Skills

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a vital role in enhancing labour market outcomes and facilitating social integration and mobility of marginalised groups, helping them transition from precarious livelihoods and employment situations to formal employment and decent work. Read More

How looming drought is devastating education in the Somali region of Ethiopia

by Abdirizak Haybe Ali | Mar 30, 2022 | Climate Change

Looming drought is decimating the fragile lives and livelihoods of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities across the Somali region of Ethiopia, causing crop failure, livestock death, food insecurity, loss of family livelihoods and human tragedy leading to loss of life. It is also having devastating effects on education. Read More

Non-state education: Less familiar facts From Accra, Ghana

by Janet Baah | Jan 26, 2022 | Learning

Over the last two decades, non-state actors have been actively involved in education provision for disadvantaged children in low-income countries. We also know too well that the non-state markets have their ups and downs, so the main findings from the 2021/22 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report are perhaps nothing out… Read More

Education programming in a pandemic: Using what we already know about girls to support them during and after Covid-19 school closures

by Rachel Outhred, Anita Reilly and Fergal Turner | Jun 2, 2021 | Girls' Education

This blog was written by Rachel Outhred (Oxford MeasurEd), Anita Reilly (Girls’ Education Challenge) and Fergal Turner (Oxford MeasurEd) and originally published on the Girls’...

How we can ensure that COVID-19 does not cast a lifelong shadow over today’s young people

by Wendy Kopp | Mar 10, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach for All, and published on the Teach For All blog site on 25 February 2021. The pandemic that has disrupted our world and...

Adolescent women are being left behind in international efforts to end poverty

by Pauline Rose, Sandra Baxter and Tom Kirk | Feb 11, 2021 | Girls' Education, Policymaking

This blog was written by Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge, with support from Tom Kirk,...

Good teaching is inclusive for all, so why focus on marginalised adolescent girls?

by Anita Reilly | Dec 21, 2020 | Girls' Education

This blog was written by Anita Reilly, Girls’ Education Challenge. It was published on the Girls’ Education Challenge website on 15 December 2020. The Foreign, Commonwealth...

UK government’s foreign aid cuts put girls’ education at risk

by Pauline Rose | Dec 1, 2020 | Aid

This article was written by Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. It was originally published on...

Smart buys: system reform, local-level buy-in and reaching the most marginalised

by Susy Ndaruhutse | Nov 19, 2020 | Critique

This blog was written by Susy Ndaruhutse, Chair of the Board of Trustees, UKFIET. Earlier this month, I listened with interest to representatives of the Global Education Evidence...