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Mastercard Foundation, 16 September 2020
Twenty-seven public Colleges of Education (CoE) in Ghana will benefit from e-learning made possible through the Mastercard Foundation and UK aid supporting the roll-out of… Read more »
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E-learning & Wi-Fi Connectivity for Ghana's Colleges of Education
Twenty-seven public Colleges of Education (CoE) in Ghana will benefit from e-learning made possible through the Mastercard Foundation and UK aid supporting the roll-out of connectivity solutions and the extension of Wi-Fi services to boost virtual teaching and learning. The support will enable the CoEs to improve connectivity on their campuses through the installation of Broadband services as well as the upgrading of technology-assisted teaching and learning solutions to aid virtual lessons for teacher trainees across the country. Read more.
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Mastercard Foundation and UK aid's support will enable the Ghana's Colleges of Education to improve connectivity on their campuses through the installation of Broadband services as well as the upgrading of technology-assisted teaching and learning solutions to aid virtual lessons for teacher trainees across the country.
Twenty-seven public Colleges of Education (CoE) in Ghana will benefit from e-learning made possible through the Mastercard Foundation and UK aid supporting the roll-out of connectivity solutions and the extension of Wi-Fi services to boost virtual teaching and learning.
Mastercard Foundation and UK aid are supporting the roll-out of connectivity solutions and the extension of Wi-Fi services to boost virtual teaching and learning for Ghana's Colleges of Education.
Twenty-seven public Colleges of Education (CoE) in Ghana will benefit from e-learning made possible through the Mastercard Foundation and UK aid
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O'Genius Priority Ltd recently signed a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation to support home-bound secondary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The new partnership, part of the Mastercard Foundation's COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program, will enable students to access the O'Genius Panda online learning platform free of charge from August 2020 until December 2021.
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The Mastercard Foundation has released an important new report, Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work. The report focuses on the role of secondary education in ensuring Africa's youth acquire the skills, knowledge, and competencies necessary to succeed in a dynamic and globalized labour market, where trends of digitalization and automation are on the rise. While the report is not intended to be a
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SMS messages that students receive on basic mobile phones; smart-phone video tutorials that can be downloaded anywhere at any time, and internet-based question-and-answer testing sessions for learners with real-time feedback from teachers are some of the "new communication products [...] enabling continuous contact between student and teacher" in sub-Saharan Africa, writes Kim Kerr (who oversees education programs at Mastercard
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As secondary schools in Africa start to re-open after the COVID-19 lockdowns, Peter Materu (Chief Program Officer for the Mastercard Foundation), writes about the need to think "beyond a return to the status quo." To drive much-needed economic growth, he goes on to argue for the need "to make education systems accessible to more
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Economic contraction in Africa due to COVID-19 threatens the ability of countries to invest in secondary education at a time when demand is increasing. This will have long term impacts on the future of Africa's labour force, which requires the skills gained through high quality and relevant secondary education to adapt to a digitized, fast changing, and globalized world of work. Modelling done by the Education Commission for Mastercard
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The current COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt every sphere of our lives, including how we educate our children. Joseph Nsengimana, Director for the Mastercard Foundation's African Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in ICT, argues that the crisis has "expedited the uptake of educational technologies, and as more parents, teachers, and students are exposed to the
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