Education International Africa

Quality and equalities: a comparative study of public and low-cost private schools in Lagos

By Elaine Unterhalter, Lynsey Robinson and Jibrin Ibrahim

Elaine Unterhalter

One of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria is rebuilding high-quality, free public education for all. State promises on this date back to the 1973 National Pledge and have been repeated in policies and declarations. However, repeated failures to fulfil these promises has led to private sector intervention, and the commercialisation...

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Practices, challenges and future prospects in the recruitment and training of teachers in Ethiopia

Dr. Eric Daniel Ananga and Dr. Emmanuel M. J. Tamanja

The study assesses the current practices, future prospects and challenges in the recruitment, selection, and training of the first cycle primary school teachers’ training policy of Ethiopia and puts forward policy recommendations.

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Managing the effects of large class sizes on quality education in Ghana

The study aims to identify actual class sizes as against the required size by education providers and policy makers. Further, the study also examines the possible causes and effects of large class sizes. Finally, this study identifies possible ways of managing large class sizes in the Ghanaian education system from...

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Partnership Schools for Liberia: a critical review

Tyler Hook

This report reviews and analyses documents related to the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) pilot. The analysis focuses on three key areas: transparency and accountability, students and teachers, and scalability and sustainability.

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Organising teaching: Developing the power of the profession

This study reports on the experience of several teacher unions as they respond to the challenges facing teachers in a range of national contexts: Chile, Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, and the United States of America.

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Assessment of the breadth of learning opportunities in public schools in Kenya and Zambia

These reports are based on a partnership project with Brookings in which Education International worked with the KNUT on a secondary school survey in Kenya and with ZNUT on a primary school survey in Zambia to investigate the breadth of learning opportunities available in state schools.

1. Zambia report
2. Kenya report
3. Summary

Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya

by Education International and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT)

Bridge International Academies (BIA) is a large and expanding business that provides for-profit private education in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and India. With support and investment coming from global edubusiness Pearson, the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and high profile actors such as Mark Zuckerberg and the...

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Schooling the poor profitably: the innovations and deprivations of Bridge International Academies in Uganda

by C. Riep and M. Machacek

Curtis B. Riep

The study reveals the operations of BIA in Uganda where it sells its version of ‘education,’ or its standardised ‘Academy-in-a-Box,’ to an estimated 12,000 fee-paying students in 63 schools.

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Global managerial education reforms and teachers

Edited by Antoni Verger, Hülya Altinyelken Mireille de Koning

The EI Research Institute and the University of Amsterdam IS Academie "Education and Development" have co-published a volume exploring the role that teachers play in global policy processes and the effects of education reforms on teachers' labour and professionalism in seven case study countries, including India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Namibia, Peru,...

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Impacts of IMF policies on national education budgets and teachers

Rick Rowden

This Education International Research Institute report provides a critical review of how current IMF macroeconomic policy conditions and advice impact on the ability of borrowing countries to finance national education budgets, wages for public sector teachers, and how such policies affect the ability of governments to achieve the progressive realization...

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Early Childhood Education: A Global Scenario

This study is a product of an early childhood education (ECE) mapping exercise conducted by the Education International ECE Task Force. Its findings reveal that there is a wide range of positive developments and experiences in several countries, including increasing participation rates, provision of comprehensive ECE services, as well as...

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Learning how to teach - The upgrading of unqualified primary teachers in sub-Saharan Africa

Herman Kruijer

In many developing countries, the increased enrolment of pupils in recent years has not been met by an increase in qualified teachers. Rather, to meet rapid expansions of student populations, large numbers of un- and under-qualified teachers have been recruited in recent years by governments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countries

Dennis Sinyolo

The purpose of this survey was to investigate teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six Anglophone African countries: The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia.

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Study on the effects of structural adjustment policies in Burkina Faso

In order to gather additional information on the impact of structural adjustment on education, as well as to assist teachers’ unions in the task of devising alternative strategies on education and structural adjustment and make member organisations more aware of the problems associated with structural adjustment, Education International decided to...

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