Category: Teachers
Refugee teachers have the skills – they just lack the paperwork Kenya refuses to issue
Meet a teacher in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana County. Every morning she walks into a room built for far fewer and finds over 90 children waiting.
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Growing solutions: How a conference conversation became a teacher guide
Throughout Ecuador, teachers are busy preparing for this year’s Feria Nacional CREA, a chance to highlight their project-based learning initiatives during a national education fair. To help teachers and students submit strong projects to the agriculture and climate change category, VVOB in Ecuador has developed a practical Teacher Guide.
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Educating under strain: teachers as shock-absorbers in an era of aid contraction
As humanitarian funding tightens alongside advancing localisation efforts, responsibility for sustaining education systems in crisis‑affected contexts is increasingly borne by teachers.
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When funding cuts undermine teacher wellbeing, learning suffers: Voices from refugee and host-community schools in Kenya
In Kenya’s refugee camps and surrounding host communities, teacher wellbeing is increasingly shaped by the slow erosion of the systems that once sustained schools. Funding cuts, delayed capitation and the withdrawal of donor-supported programmes have become daily stressors for teachers working in some of the country’s most fragile education contexts.
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Transforming English Language pedagogy: Learning from the Global English Language Programme in refugee and post-conflict contexts
Effective language teaching in emergency and marginalised contexts requires more than grammar instruction. It demands pedagogical approaches that build communicative competence, develop life competencies and create safe learning environments for traumatised learners.
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Resign to be safe: How Kenya’s transfer system is pushing teachers out of refugee schools
Imagine having stones thrown at you on your morning commute to school. Or hearing live bullets cross the school compound while you try to comfort frightened children. Or being hospitalised after a student brings a knife to school the day after being disciplined.
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Feet planted firmly in the air: The danger of teacher-free education events
The political philosopher Bernard Crick once warned that think tanks risk having ‘their feet planted firmly in the air’ – confident, well-funded and untethered from reality. Without teacher voices, that is exactly where too many education events are headed.
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The sound of equity: Teachers’ school journeys captured through soundscapes
While visual data is popular in educational research, sound-based methods are far less common. Yet, both are vital sensations that help us understand human interaction and the sensory impact on the body. In our research with teachers with disabilities, we used soundscapes as a reflective tool for participants with visual…
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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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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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Equally qualified yet unequally paid teaching workforce in Pakistan
Teacher salary sits at the heart of Pakistan’s education system which not only shapes teachers’ livelihoods but also the stability and quality of learning in classrooms.
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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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