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Africa’s Branch Campus Boom: Who Benefits When Western Universities Set Up Shop on the Continent
Carnegie Mellon Africa retains 85% of its graduates on the continent. ALU charges a fraction of CMU fees. Coventry is heading to Lagos. Who is Africa’s branch campus boom actually for?
The CESA 2016-2025 Audit: 75 Million More Children in School, 100 Million Still Left Out
The African Union’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa has closed. A data-driven audit finds an access paradox, a widening STEM gap, and structural blockers that the successor framework has not yet resolved.
TVET in Africa: Can Technical Training Scale to Meet the Digital Economy Demand?
Africa adds 18 million young workers annually but TVET enrolment covers barely 1.8% of secondary students. An investigation into whether reform is moving fast enough.
Africa’s School-to-Work Gap: The NEET Crisis Holding Back a Generation
Across Africa, millions of young people are neither in education, employment, nor training. The NEET crisis is not a youth problem — it is a structural failure of education systems to connect learning to labour markets.
Africa’s Language of Instruction Crisis: Why Teaching Children to Read in the Wrong Language Drives Learning Poverty
Across sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are taught to read in English, French, or Portuguese — languages they do not speak at home. The research is unambiguous. The political will to act on it is not.
The For-Profit School Trap: Why Private Equity Keeps Betting on African Education and Losing
Bridge International raised $180 million from Gates, Chan Zuckerberg, and Omidyar — then was forced out of Uganda and Kenya. Private equity is still entering African education. The unit economics explain why the model keeps failing, and who it can actually work for.
The Research-to-Revenue Gap: How Africa’s Universities Are Failing Its Fastest-Growing Industries
Africa’s universities publish more than ever. The pipeline from that research to commercial value has never been emptier.
Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently
The AU’s CESA 2016–2025 decade closed without meeting its STEM gender parity goals. In Nigeria, women account for just 22 per cent of STEM graduates. Rwanda, Ghana, and South Africa offer three distinct policy models that are producing measurable progress — but nobody is scaling them fast enough.
Africa’s School-to-Work Gap: Why 60% of Youth Are Neither Employed Nor in Training
60% of African youth aged 15-24 are not in employment, education, or training. BETAR maps the structural drivers of the continent’s school-to-work gap.
Africa’s Language of Instruction Crisis: Why Teaching Children to Read in the Wrong Language Drives Learning Poverty
Africa’s learning poverty crisis is partly a language problem. Teaching 200 million children to read in a language they don’t speak at home drives school failure, grade repetition, and dropout — and it’s a policy choice, not an inevitability.
