Investment in Pre-Primary Education?Is it too low?

From field experience I must say the answer is a definite yes -but this is what the World Bank researchers have discovered: ✓Is Investment in Preprimary Education Too Low? Lessons from (Quasi) Experimental Evidence across CountriesAlaka Holla, Magdalena Bendini, Lelys Dinarte, and Iva Trako, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9723, June 2021This study uses a

ECE Accelerator Toolkit

From INNE At this time nothing needs more acceleration than Early Childhood Education.During the pandemic, it was often forgotten or at least not given the attention it deserves. ECE Accelerator Toolkit  ECE Accelerator The tools currently in this toolkit are related to the first two stages – Education Sector Analysis (ESA) and Education Sector Plan (ESP) development. These are

Supporting Early Childhood Education Teachers in Refugee Settings

Supporting Early Childhood Education Teachers in Refugee SettingsTheirWorld Early childhood education is crucial to all children – but especially for child refugees, many of whom have suffered significant trauma.   However, access to quality early learning is often extremely limited, poorly resourced and chronically under-funded. That is the conclusion of a new Theirworld report which analysed

COVID-19 -early learning at home

As schools closed, most activity was presented online as the first option to enhance learning at home. What did appear immediately was the obvious inequalities that were already apparent – lack of consistent internet access, lack of hardware at home (larger families perhaps sharing one mobile screen) lack of ‘higher level’ education support for the