Exploring Innovative Approaches to Rethinking Education
When Education Ministers of the 54 Commonwealth countries gather today in Nairobi they will be set a major challenge. The 21st Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers takes place under the theme of “Rethinking Education.” That rethink is precisely what is required, urgently. The scale of the current global education crisis is profound. UNESCO, the United […]
Solutions to Learning Poverty
2019 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Professor Michael Kremer‘s ground-breaking study into NewGlobe’s methodology in Kenya has announced learning gains among the ‘largest ever measured in international education’. The impact is among the greatest of any rigorously studied intervention in emerging markets. The highly anticipated study found that primary and middle school students in NewGlobe’s Kenya program […]
EWF 2022: Building Stronger, Bolder, Better Education Systems Together
The impact of Covid-19 on learning has been disastrous. The World Bank estimates it could push the percentage of 10-year-olds in low and middle-income countries unable to read a simple sentence – so-called “learning poverty” – up from 50% to 70%. This week, the world’s largest gathering of national education leaders is happening at the […]
Structured teaching can lead to large learning gains
Jaime Saavedra, the World Bank’s Education Director, has called the current state of global learning “the most serious crisis in education in 100 years.” The reason is clear. Even before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children in formal education were not learning. Prolonged school closures have made that even worse. The Bank’s […]
Transformational learning gains – the path to prosperity
To improve your economy, first improve your education system. Several years ago, the OECD published a series of seminal research papers that clearly linked economic growth to education outcomes. This compelling data has swirled around policy making conversations in low and middle income countries (LMICs) and is data that every finance minister should be familiar […]
Transformative learning: For the many, not the few
The quickest path to public school improvement may be through a better understanding of successful and equitable schools. Equitable schools succeed with all students, not just those with the most skills or most privilege. A new study proves NewGlobe methods accelerate learning for all students, especially those predicted to struggle the most academically. This study, […]
Only system change can save global education
Antonio Guterres is right – education systems are failing and need wholesale transformation The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly – UNGA77 as it is universally known – has faced a great deal of urgent business. War in Ukraine, global food prices, energy prices, climate change. So it’s instructive that the UN Secretary-General […]
Teachers Transform: Teaching is the most important job in the world
Teaching is the most important job in the world. The quality of any nation’s education cannot exceed the quality of its educators. Yet, in many low and middle-income countries, the profession is in critical condition. UNESCO estimates a shortfall in teachers in sub-Saharan Africa alone of 15 million. Worse, teachers struggling to help students have little […]
Day of the Girl Child: “Our time is now—our rights, our future.”
The structure of NewGlobe’s 360-degree support teams is designed to deliver rapid and tangible learning transformation across education systems. Improving education systems is urgent and NewGlobe is designed to effect change urgently. Large scale local tech-enabled expert teams are swiftly put in place across back office and field-based support functions to ensure government programmes are
