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UKFIET and the Education Post 2015 Agenda
Oxford Exam Schools. Picture: Commons/Wikimedia I almost broke into a cold sweat entering the historic Oxford University Examination Schools for the first time in 20 years, memories of stumbling...
View ArticleRiddle me this: what is educational technology?
Any regular reader of the Economist will have read the hype about "edtech". It is a well worn tale. Converts believe edtech has potential to transform the lives of millions of poor children. By...
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Mafia style education
Chole Minji Island Primary School. Picture: Ian Attfield/DFID A little education can go a long way and provide young people with the competitive edge over their neighbours. This message really sunk...
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An Open Book
Reading habit starts young The Tanzanian government launched a new website last week to establish a monitoring system to 'crowd source' oversight of a huge logistical exercise that is now underway....
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Millie Banks – the successor to Dora the Explorer – arrives in Kenya
A warm welcome from the AMAF school. Picture: Amanda Lawrence Brown/DFID DFID Kenya had the pleasure of welcoming celebrity Millie Banks to her new home in Nairobi recently. For those of you for whom...
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The broken record of educational technology: why we must be informed and keep...
Love it or loathe it, 1 of the grand challenges for education in developing countries is how to integrate technology in a cost effective way that has impact. In a paper released this month, McKinsey...
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The Washington Consensus
Nelson Mandela. Picture: Martin Roemers/Panos I'm at home today (December 9th), as Tanzania celebrates Uhuru Day, the anniversary of Tanganyika's independence in 1961 from the UK. This year however the...
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Spiders and Starfish
Tanzania’s Big Results Now! service delivery performance improvement initiative moves into its first full year of operation in 2014, with considerable interest in the national examination results that...
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A ‘welfare state’ for Pakistan’s poor?
Every week we hear about Pakistan's appalling poverty indicators, some of the worst in the region. Every week somebody declares an 'emergency'. Every week a politician says we must do better. Every...
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White teeth
Nelson Mandela's legacy in Tanzania is rapidly expanding, as I learnt just days after returning from Washington DC last December, where the White House flag was at half mast as a mark of respect....
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