Tag: Foundation Skills

Addressing the educational needs of Afghan returnee children: A call to action

by Siddharth Pillai | Feb 14, 2024 | Education and Migration

There has been a significant increase in the number of people returning to Afghanistan, primarily through the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossings. To understand the educational needs and learning levels of returnee children, a rapid assessment was undertaken. Read More

‘Emancipated Learning’: Indonesia’s education reforms and INOVASI

by Mark Heyward | Oct 25, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

This brief article explores how Innovation for Indonesia’s School Children (INOVASI) used a problem-driven iterative adaptation (PDIA) approach to address learning loss and to support education reform in Indonesia. Read More

Involving the community in raising children’s foundational learning outcomes: Evidence from India

by Suman Bhattacharjea, Deepak Kumar and Ricardo Sabates | Jul 18, 2022 | Early Childhood, Literacy and Numeracy

Achieving basic literacy and numeracy skills is fundamental for successful learning through the schooling cycle. Supporting children to achieve these foundational skills requires not just teachers, but multiple stakeholders working together to enable meaningful understandings and applications of these skills. But, how can multiple stakeholders work together to ensure that… Read More

Low-tech home-based learning support for children in Kano State, Nigeria

by Caroline Grant and Ashleigh Morrell | Apr 6, 2021 | Learning

This article was written by Caroline Grant, senior education adviser for Sub-Saharan Africa, British Council, and Ashleigh Morrell, Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa...

Learning From High-Performing Classrooms in Vietnam—and Debunking Fallacies About Foundational Skills

by Yue-Yi Hwa and Bich-Hang Duong | Mar 15, 2021 | Learning

This blog was written by Yue-Yi Hwa, RISE Directorate and Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and Bich-Hang Duong, RISE Vietnam and University of Minnesota. It...