Higher education and COVID-19: How Aga Khan University has risen to the challenge
“Among the founding principles that were set out by the Chancellor, was that AKU…should be able to serve [the] populations in which
Education
The challenge: Worldwide, 600 million children and teenagers fail to reach basic levels of learning proficiency. Nearly half of them remain out of school. However, even those in school are not being prepared to succeed in or contribute to society. Among illiterate youth, nearly two out of three are girls – a fact that has remained largely unchanged for the last 20 years. These gaps in education translate to a world where people of all ages are left out of opportunity, and do not reach their full potential as adults.
Our solution: We strengthen education systems to equip girls and boys with the knowledge and skills to help them interact effectively with the world and contribute to a pluralist society. From preschool programs to advanced education for adults, our investments train teachers and administrators, and improve classrooms and schools, with a focus on dismantling the barriers to education for women and girls. We support policy and research to develop and scale affordable, innovative solutions that raise the quality and accessibility of public school systems for the most marginalized children worldwide.
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- Early Childhood Development
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- Engaging Canadians
- Gender Equality
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Building partnerships through a pandemic
In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is a shared global experience. For students, the pandemic continues to disrupt their educational
Supporting early learners in challenging circumstances
Over the past months, we’ve learned that COVID-19 is more than a health crisis. The pandemic has disrupted our regular
Back-to-school, but not back to normal: Lessons from our field programs
By Tracey Evans, Program Manager, Education
Educators, parents, and policymakers around the world have grappled with a common question for months: how to keep children safe while learning?
The world we want
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sometimes called the Global Goals, are a worldwide movement to break the cycle of poverty
The chain school
Can we teach the same way we make Big Macs?
Sowing the seeds of potential: Women
While program has transformed lives in the classroom, it has lifted up women in the community as well.
Sowing the seeds of potential: Transforming teachers
The Madrasa Program also transforms the lives of the teachers who come through its doors, by training existing and future teachers.
New opportunities, at their fingertips
Across Aga Khan Foundation’s global education programs, I’d often heard about school classrooms that held upwards of eighty, one hundred, even two hundred students at one time.
