In our Blog: Let's Get Schooled we will explore why education matters; we will examine the barriers, one by one, which impede women and girls from accessing quality education and completing their studies; we will become familiar with the strategies to address these issues; and we will discover who the leaders in world education are.
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“I have nothing my daughter can inherit when I am gone.
I know that not only will education be helpful to her but to her future family.”- Mohamed Hamisi Mkavu
“In Kenya, grade 6 teachers scored only 61% on tests of grade 6 mathematics material.”
- EFA MR 2013/14
Update VI - December 2018“A 2010 survey by the Ministry of National Education in Côte d’Ivoire found that 47% of teachers reported having sexual relations with students. In South Africa, a recent national survey found that 8% of secondary school girls had experienced severe sexual assault or rape in the previous year while at school.” - World Education Blog
We continue our series addressing interventions...We continue our series addressing interventions that work in girls education as outlined in What Works in Girls Education: Evidence for the World’s Best Investment [click on the title to download a free pdf of the book!]. The authors present a list of seven intervention areas which are critical to increasing the number of girls who enroll and stay...