According to the 2018 World Development Report (WDR), many lower-income countries have made progress in getting children into the classroom, which has led to more children worldwide now being in school.
While significantly greater numbers of children are now attending school, there has been little investment in the education infrastructure needed to teach this pupil explosion, such as building schools, providing resources, and – of course – training better and more teachers.
The global pandemic has far-reaching consequences that may jeopardise hard-won gains made in improving global education. (UN)
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Professor Dr Stephen Chan OBE
Stephen Chan has held honorary professorships in several African universities. The citation for his OBE was for 'Services to Higher Education and Africa'.
A former member of the Commonwealth Secretariat, he has published 37 academic books, many of them in-depth studies of African Commonwealth countries. He was Foundation Dean of Law & Social Sciences at SOAS University of London, where he continues as Professor of World Politics.
He has held named Chairs in Palestine and the Central European University in Budapest, witnessing at first hand the symmetry between academic freedom and political freedom.
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