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- Despite the palpable benefits of education, Africa, especially sub-Saharan Africa, still struggles to improve educational outcomes. The 2022 progress report on implementing the African Union’s (AU) Agenda 2063 reveals that Africa failed to meet all the education targets, with an overall performance score of 44%.
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Jan 24, 2022 · Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of education exclusion globally, according to the UN. Nearly 60% of youth aged 15 to 17 are not in school. Activists on the continent are now...
Mar 24, 2024 · Sub-Saharan Africa is falling short on achieving inclusive, equitable, quality education due to misaligned policy and funding priorities, a lack of access and inclusion, gender disparities, physical barriers, curricular constraints, and inadequate teacher training [6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15].
Feb 11, 2022 · Already communities across sub-Saharan Africa are facing the climate related impacts on education. Climate change and its associated impact on weather and climate patterns widens inequality gaps...
Jun 27, 2024 · A 2018 World Bank report identifies the four immediate causes of poor quality education in sub-Saharan Africa. First, many children arrive unprepared to learn because of illness, malnutrition or income deprivation. Second, teachers often lack the necessary skills or motivation.
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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Sep 12, 2023 · Low quality instruction is a major constraint and prior to COVID-19, the learning poverty rate in low- and middle-income countries was 57% (6 out of 10 children could not read and understand basic texts by age 10). More dramatic is the case of Sub-Saharan Africa with a rate even higher at 86%.
What are the obstacles in achieving universal quality education in sub-Saharan Africa? Wars, natural disasters, internal displacement, economic barriers, and socio-cultural norms are some of the key factors that stand in the way of getting every child in school.
