Category: Learning
Beyond enrolment: Pakistan’s real education crisis is learning
Over the past few weeks, much of the education discourse in Pakistan has centred on one question: how many children are out of school? The debate – driven by comparisons across datasets – has drawn attention to differences in estimates and methodologies.
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Measuring what matters: How do you measure systems change?
Sometimes the most pertinent shifts in the education ecosystem are the hardest to see.
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Negotiating gender, educational inequality and marginalisation: A reflexive field reflection from a slum
This blog is a reflection of fieldwork conducted in September 2025, focusing on ‘measuring exclusion, discrimination and inequality’ in a Muslim majority slum in India.
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The village never stopped raising the child – so why are our education policies pretending it has?
There is an African proverb that many know but few education systems seem to have taken seriously: ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. In pre-colonial Ghana, this was beyond metaphor, and instead, more of a governance model.
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The multiplier effect: Investing in school leaders
For years, global education has overlooked the role of school leaders. Recently, governments, funders, and NGOs have started paying more attention to the role of school leadership in systemic change, stronger programmes, and improved student outcomes.
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Equal access in education and the digital divide in India
Post-Covid, the challenge in India is achieving an equal access to education for all, where the word ‘access’ seems a heightened concern. Looking at the previous statistics from the country, it is noted that the digital access in terms of a device (computer/laptop), teacher (who is proficient of taking an…
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Supporting adolescents’ learning in Nairobi’s informal settlements: Lessons from a community-based education intervention
Across sub-Saharan Africa, the global learning crisis continues to undermine the promise of universal education. Millions of children attend school but leave without mastering basic literacy and numeracy skills. This challenge is particularly acute in disadvantaged urban contexts, such as informal settlements, where poverty, overcrowding and limited resources undermine the…
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Unlearning gender: Rethinking social and emotional learning in education
SEL is widely recognised as essential for promoting wellbeing, cooperation and young people's meaningful participation in their communities. Frameworks often assume that emotional development unfolds similarly for all learners, regardless of gender, culture or identity. Yet emotional expression and regulation are deeply shaped by social norms that define which feelings…
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Working towards equality in computing education
When the pandemic closed schools in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra, India, two teenagers — Jayantika (age 16) and Ruturaj (age 14) — turned to coding.
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Why are we silent? 9 out of 10 children in Sub-Saharan Africa are not learning, and the elephant in the classroom is still being ignored
This is not just a learning crisis; it is a massive fiscal one. Teacher absenteeism costs India and Uganda an estimated US$1.5 billion every year. In Uganda alone, this represents a 12% loss of total public education expenditure.
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An innovative approach to improving teaching: Lessons from India
Teaching children to learn to read, write and do basic mathematics are vital building blocks learnt in the early years. These basic skills are essential to continued learning, staying in school and thriving.
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International Mother Language Day 2026
International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21 February to underscore the role of languages in promoting inclusion and achieving the SDGs.
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