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Jan 1, 2022 · UNESCO (2021) reports that approximately 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa experienced 41 weeks + total closure of schools while about eight countries, between 31 and 40 weeks of closure. Schleicher (2020) summarized the impact as follows:
In Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 87 per cent of children are learning poor, unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10. Ç This stems from the combined effect of a large proportion of out-of-school children along with poor quality learning outcomes for those in school. © UNICEF/UN0199174/NOORANI
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This article combines large-scale bibliometric analysis of publications on education by researchers based in sub-Saharan Africa with researchers’ accounts of their priorities and practice.
- Rafael Mitchell, Pauline Rose, Samuel Asare
- 16 early-career, 14 senior
- 2020
- 21 male, 9 female
The report provides evidence-based analysis of the situation of education in Africa while putting into perspective the Sustainable Development Goals and the objectives of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16–25) in line with the African Union Agenda 2063.
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Nov 24, 2020 · Education has expanded dramatically in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past half century. From 1970 to 2010, the percentage of children across the region who complete primary school rose by almost 50% (from 46% of children to 68%).
- David K Evans, Amina Mendez Acosta
- 2021
The Continental Education Strategy for Africa 2016–2025 (CESA 16-25) of the Africa Union clearly states that Early Childhood Education and Development is the pillar for future learning and identifies it as the next frontier if Africa is to realize sustained quality education and training.
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Nov 15, 2022 · This article examines why Universal Primary Education (UPE) has shifted from being a developing country challenge more broadly in the last half of the 20th century to become largely a sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) challenge today.
