Wednesday, February 4, 2026
The Finnish education system, widely recognised for its quality and innovation, is built on the principles of equity and inclusivity. For decades, the central aim has been that all people must have equal access to high-quality education and training. A small nation cannot afford to waste any of its human potential, and thus the same educational opportunities should be available to all citizens irrespective […]
Africa is home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. Recent analyses underscore that this potential is expanding rapidly: Africa’s working-age population (15-64 years) is expected to double by 2050, accounting for 86% of the total global increase in this age group (OECD, 2024). By 2040, 240 million African youth are expected to have completed upper-secondary or tertiary education, offering a unique opportunity to […]
Executive Summary AUDA NEPAD‘s African EdTech 2030: Vision & Plan (V&P) is Africa’s first continent-wide blueprint for making high-quality digital learning reliably available to every learner. The V&P targets three of the Four Barriers—Policy, Technology, and Data—by anchoring Africa’s strategy on two instruments: a continental Policy Framework and Africa’s Digital Public Infrastructure for Education (DPI-Ed). These instruments translate broad digital-education aspirations into concrete, interoperable […]
In many African Ministries of Education, the first real EdTech conversation does not start with apps, dashboards, or artificial intelligence. It starts with a question that sounds almost administrative, but is actually strategic: “How will this work with what we already have, and still be working after the pilot team has left?” That question has been repeated in different ways across the continent since […]
Douglas Ayitey is part of a new generation of African educators who believe the continent’s future will be shaped not by consuming technology, but by building it. As the Founder and CEO of The MakersPlace, a Ghana-based robotics, coding and AI education organisation, he has helped thousands of young people move from curiosity to competence. With a background in electrical engineering and energy systems, […]
Commissioned by GIZ, this new report by eLearning Africa and Jigsaw Education examines how the private sector is contributing to digital and green skills development across 25 African countries. It explores who is delivering training, how programmes are structured, and where gaps in access and quality remain. The findings point to a fast-growing but uneven landscape. While digital and green skills initiatives are expanding, […]
In Ghana’s evolving skills and industrial landscape, few figures have shaped the modern conversation around craftsmanship, technical education and employability as profoundly as Constance Swaniker – sculptor, entrepreneur, and founder of both Accents & Art and the Design & Technology Institute (DTI). From turning scrap metal into celebrated art pieces, to training the next generation of precision welders, designers and fabricators, Swaniker has built […]
“It’s not until you struggle with something, and I mean struggle to a point of it being problematic, that you are uncomfortable enough to find a solution”. Addressing the education crisis is something Kwame sees as a persistent challenge across the continent, and is exactly what pulled him into the world of EdTech. Years of experiencing old-school teaching methods, where he struggled to grasp […]
In Ghana’s growing EdTech landscape, few innovations have captured the public imagination like the Science Set – a portable laboratory bringing practical science lessons to students across the continent. At the forefront of its expansion is Caleb Fugah, Chief Business Development Officer at Dext Technology Limited and one of Ghana’s 2025 Mandela Washington Fellows. A former SRC President at KNUST and a lifelong advocate […]
On a hot afternoon in a village near Kpong, I watched a class of JHS pupils crowd around a single solar-powered tablet. The teacher cued a short video about the water cycle, then paused it to ask questions. The children answered, argued a little, and then practised the same ideas with a simple offline quiz loaded on the device. After the lesson, a young […]
