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Getting every child ready to learn

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  Quality pre-primary education is critical to a child’s cognitive, social and emotional development, growth, school readiness and future economic potential. However, only 42 per cent of children in sub-Saharan Africa participate in any organized pre-primary education before the typical enrolment age for grade one. And those that… Read more →←
A teacher points at the blackboard with a ruler as she turns to face a classroom full of children looking attentively at her and the board. From Think Education Series of think pieces on the challenges facing global education.

Girls’ education is improving, but not for all

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  UNICEF has commissioned 10 papers by leading researchers and practitioners to stimulate debate around educational challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: a region where most children attend school, but many are not learning the basics. While the articles have academic roots, they are not research papers, nor do they represent… Read more →←

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