Education International Africa

Articles

1. 30 June 2025

   

   In the eye of the storm: Higher education in an age of crises

   Howard Stevenson Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo Melanie Bhend Vasiliki-Eleni Selechopoulou

   Research

   The research examines recent trends in the higher education sector and how they align with the current provisions of the ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997) and the recommendations of the UN High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. It also analyses higher education unions' experience with...

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2. 30 June 2025

   

   Not the exception, but essential: Teachers with disabilities in mainstream classrooms

   Nidhi Singal

   Worlds of Education

   Where are the teachers with disabilities in our classrooms? A question I often ask my audience is: “How many of you were taught by a teacher who identified as having a disability during your school years?” In a room of 50–60 people, usually only one or two hands go up.

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3. 28 September 2023

   

   Access and Use of Teaching and Learning Materials from a Copyright Perspective in Kenya

   Catherine Nafuna Nandain Charles Nandain

   Research

   This report presents the findings of a study conducted in Kenya, focusing on the access and use of teaching, and learning materials from a copyright perspective. The study aimed to identify the teaching materials used in class, strategies to access them, teacher’s knowledge of copyright laws, copyright-related challenges that teachers...

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4. 15 March 2023

   

   Education and copyright: Perspectives from the classroom

   Preliminary findings

   Research

   We know from WIPO’s and our own research that copyright legislation is inadequate for education today. It creates barriers to ensure the right to education as well as curtails teachers’ academic freedom to choose and adapt materials including for cross-border collaboration and exchange.

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5. 16 March 2022

   

   World Bank to exit investment in for-profit school chain Bridge International Academies

   Statements

   Education International (EI) welcomes the decision from the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), to stop investing in the for-profit chain of schools, Bridge International Academies. The IFC had invested more than US$ 10 million in Bridge International Academies operations in Africa and supported the company's...

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6. 28 January 2022

   

   Challenging global tech giants: the critical role of Global labour

   Carmen Ludwig Edward Webster

   Worlds of Education

   In a recent research paper, Carmen Ludwig and Edward Webster examined the role of global unions to contest the use and abuse of digital technology through transnational activism in two African contexts. Action included work with Education International’s Global Response against the privatisation of education.

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