Sanjeev Mansotra - Current Educational Standards in Africa

 

For a long-time, Sanjeev Mansotra have been an extremely passionate advocate for improving the quality and effectiveness of educational delivery in Africa. He worked in countries such as Ghana, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire to work towards these goals for years. But he write, millions of children across West and Central Africa do not have access to formal education. For an accurate picture of where we are, we just need to look at recent data from the World Bank 2022 Western and Central Africa Strategy:

• Due to the quality of their education delivery, children receive only 4.5 years of quality learning in Western and Central Africa.
• Only 31% of children in the region benefit from early childhood education programs
• 32 million children remain out of school in the area, which represents the largest share in all global regions (20% of the school-age population is not in education)
• 80% of 10-year-old children in Western and Central Africa are unable to read and understand a simple text

In reality, only a quarter of African children have access to the childhood learning they deserve (or the education that we expect in more privileged parts of the world). In many African countries, from the very start, a significant number of children are put at a disadvantage – even just going into first grade. They encounter real issues later in their education as they attempt to progress into senior education.

For more information - https://theknowledgereview.com/sanjeev-mansotra-on-the-importance-of-critically-improving-stem-education-delivery-in-africa/