Education Bridge-Africa

10/10/2023

Alarm as 4,000 girls fall victim to teenage pregnancies in Kilifi

At least 4,091 school-going girls aged between 10 and 18 years were impregnated in Kilifi County in the first six months of this year.

This is according to a new report by the county’s health department.

Kilifi Chief Officer for Gender, Culture and Social Services Agneta Karembo called for a collaborative approach to combat the teenage pregnancy crisis in the county.

04/10/2023

Dr Loise Gichuhi featured in the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies Members Spotlight

INEE Member Spotlight: Loise Gichuhi Location: Nairobi, Kenya Contact: [email protected] Job title: Country Focal Point, Kenya; Senior Lecturer, University of Nairobi Introduce yourself to other members. Tell us who you are and summarise the work you do or interest you have in EiE. My name is L...

04/10/2023

Compounding Impacts of Conflicts and Crises

During periods of crisis or instability, the presence of political goodwill becomes imperative in the development and implementation of effective mitigation strategies. This goodwill should extend to policies that ensure equal educational opportunities for all children while simultaneously upholding both international and national educational benchmarks. However, political disputes and interethnic violence can occasionally offset the positive effects on the education sector, particularly where there are already inequalities in the distribution of educational institutions, infrastructure, and trained teachers. Read more about this....

Universal access to primary education is a fundamental human right of every child. The multiple benefits of education, which are well-recognized and extensively documented, have the potential to advance countries’ social and economic development. Nevertheless, instances arise where both internal a...

30/12/2022

Countdown to 2023

28/11/2022

The main asset of the poor is human capital. This needs to be augmented by all means possible. Inequality in education investment continue unabated post -19, likely that some children were left worse off. A number of children were not yet reached by virtual teaching programs, and those reached, the gaps remained. Are we able to answer the following questions; When did the children concentrate on a tv or radio from 8 to 5? Even adults, the fatigue , concentration time? We just need to be honest with ourselves. The enquities!!! that are in the education sector!

When the quality of schooling is low and disproportionately favours few privileged people, the inequalities continues to be high. The poor are hurt most by inadequate education. I note that the underinvestment in the human capital of the poor is attributable to wealth gaps, digital devide, gender gaps, regional inequalities, market failures, parental value for education and policy distortions. A reallocation of public investment toward basic education is needed to improve the efficacy of tax money. Addressing the challenges and creating contextualized interventions. Maybe decentralised decisionmaking and community-managed schools hold great promise for improving education outcomes. To make education more productive for the poor, they need to be empowered with land , equity capital, training, and job opportunities in open and competitive markets.

I agree more needs to be done on affirmative action. We must intentionally take care of the marginalised communities and households in the informal settlements. Improving infrastructure and additional teachers and embracing new and creative approaches of reaching the unreachable. Not just in education but also in development and creation of wealth to reduce poverty effectively

Sending our warm regards to all the candidates in all the levels.

Dr Loise Gichuhi
Education Economist & Education in Emergencies Expert

University of Nairobi
Education Bridge-Africa

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13/10/2022

📣 INEE Meet-Ups are back!

50+ virtual and in-person events in 6+ languages between 15-31 Oct. All Meet-Ups are FREE, OPEN to all! See the full lists on each language version of this page: inee.org/events/inee-meet-ups/october-2022

13/10/2022

Join Dr. Loise Gichuhi and others for this discussion on 28 November at 4 pm.

Registration Link

https://rescue.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf-qpqzgjGdBEwEhQ-gpgWfhPhCrYc2eg

13/10/2022

Always remember to take a moment with your child.

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24/05/2022

What's your DREAM?

18/05/2022

As education access has risen around the world, the quality of education has become a top priority globally. The evidence is clear that effective teachers are key for student learning.
Increasingly, too, as governments and development partners have taken more of a systems approach to education quality, they have recognized the need to look beyond teachers to the broader education workforce that supports teaching and learning.

A new GPE report maps existing tools and frameworks on teachers and the broader education workforce.

15/05/2022

6 Overlooked Traits That Separate Great Leaders From The Rest

If you ask people what separates great leaders from the rest, most will tell you it’s intelligence, confidence, charisma, strength, or something similar. But over my many years of coaching leaders around the world, I’ve come to realize that what separates great leaders from good leaders comes down to certain skills. Here are six of the most important:

A great leader embraces feedback:

Leaders who stand apart from their peers are those who embrace feedback. Most leaders—like most people—become defensive when they’re given feedback

Let go of the image you have of what makes you a great leader. Instead focus on the traits that will separate you from the rest.

11/05/2022

The education of hundreds of millions of children is hanging by a thread as a result of an unprecedented intensity of threats including Covid 19 and the climate crisis, a report warned today.
As classrooms across much of the world prepare to reopen after the summer holidays, a quarter of countries – most of them in sub-Saharan Africa – have school systems that are at extreme or high risk of collapse, according to Save the Children.

Covid, climate breakdown, poverty and war threaten return to school after pandemic kept 1.5bn children out of classes