Foundational learning

The Minister of Education of Ghana, Hon. Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum, delivered a passionate appeal to fellow policymakers in Africa to ramp up efforts towards addressing the continent’s learning crisis. He made this appeal on Monday 16th September 2024, during a webinar on Innovative Pedagogies on Foundational Learning, organized by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and the Learning Generation Initiative (LGI) of the Education Development Centre (EDC). Dr.

On Wednesday May 21st, 2024, on the margins of the Education World Forum (EWF) in London, the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) and Human Capital Africa (HCA) hosted a powerful breakfast meeting of African Ministers of Education, with the support of development partners from the Global Coalition on Foundational Learning. It was a showcase of the growing commitment from African policymakers to lead the response to the learning crisis on the continent. This builds on the announcement last week of the decision of His Excellency Mr.

All is set for the official launch of the national and continental version of the 2023 Spotlight Report series tagged Born to Learn. The study will be unveiled on the 7^th of May at the 2024 Conference of the African Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities, during a session hosted by Honourable Douglas Munsaka Syakalima: MP, the Minister of Education, Zambia.

ADEA and UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report (UNESCO GEMR) launched a new country report on Thursday 18^th April, that places the spotlight on foundational literacy and numeracy in Uganda. This was on the margins of the Foundations for Learning Conference organised by the Aga Khan University in Kampala. GEMR and ADEA collaborated with the Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports to conduct the study that resulted in the country report.