Africa’s Educator Crisis: What got us here won’t get us there

In our first blog, I shared with you our vision to transform teaching and learning across the African continent. Our initial hypotheses have invariably been disproven as we faced challenges and heard the voices of teachers, entrepreneurs and policy makers. In this blog, I want to share our evolving understanding of the educator workforce context, […]

Instill’s Education Journey

Instill Education’s journey, our journey as entrepreneurs began 6 years ago with a simple vision: to transform the quality of teaching and learning in every African classroom. We watched with admiration the likes of Relay, Match, National Institute of Education (Singapore) and others who were reimagining teacher education across the world and wondered: why were […]

Learning journey blog series: Education Innovations

Testing education innovations to drive quality improvement at scale This is the first installation of the Learning Journey blog series co-authored by Opportunity EduFinance, Instill Education, and Chalkboard Education. We will share insights from several pilot projects testing education innovations in the affordable private school sector in sub-Saharan Africa. The series examines the evolution, learning, […]

Developing the right foundation for Education Technology

This is the second installation of the Learning Journey blog series co-authored by Opportunity EduFinance, Instill Education, and Chalkboard Education. We will share ongoing insights from several pilot projects testing education innovations in the affordable private school sector in sub-Saharan Africa. The series examines the evolution, learning, adaptation, and failures as we endeavour to build […]

July Upskill Kenya Student of the Month Awards!

Introducing the winners of the Upskill Kenya Student of the Month Awards! Our online learning platform, Upskill, has been rolled out to various colleges in Kenya and we would like to highlight the most active and competent students on the platform for the month of July. Nkatha Nelly Meru TTC (DTTC UPGRADE) Read More Korir […]

Putting African educators at the center of Africa’s ed-tech revolution

African education faces an existential challenge. By 2030, 15 million teachers will be needed to address the continent’s population growth and the wave of teacher retirement.1 At the same time, student outcomes have continued to lag – 61 million learners are currently expected to reach adolescence without basic life skills; an indictment of the support […]

Keeping it practical: critical components of effective pre-service teacher training

Keeping it practical: critical components of effective pre-service teacher training Across the African continent, most governments’ stated intent is to reform and democratise the education system, yet the difficulties of training and retaining adequate numbers of teachers remains a significant and growing challenge, especially in rural area 1. Sub-Saharan Africa needs to recruit 15 million […]

Social impact Investors and Higher Education: All talk, no walk?

The death of higher education has been declared and eulogies have been written over and over (and over!) again. The truth is that, in most developed economies, higher education institutions have had to evolve beyond “relying on the credentials they offer” and address access, equity, technological or relevance realities, or risk joining the graveyard.  The […]

Africa’s Educator Crisis: What got us here won’t get us there

In our first blog, I shared with you our vision to transform teaching and learning across the African continent. Our initial hypotheses have invariably been disproven as we faced challenges and heard the voices of teachers, entrepreneurs and policy makers. In this blog, I want to share our evolving understanding of the educator workforce context, […]

Instill’s Education Journey

Instill Education’s journey, our journey as entrepreneurs began 6 years ago with a simple vision: to transform the quality of teaching and learning in every African classroom. We watched with admiration the likes of Relay, Match, National Institute of Education (Singapore) and others who were reimagining teacher education across the world and wondered: why were […]