Building Education Systems of The Future

  • P Project/Program

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Key Information

COVID-19 lockdown measures led to school closures around the world. This highlighted the urgent need for more resilient, digital-first education systems that enable students to learn from home. Vodafone Foundation has been providing support to students and education systems via:

- Zero rating educational sites and donating devices in response to COVID-19

- Parterning with Perlego to offer free access to a library of over 300,000 digitical text books for students

- Providing free educational resources to 1.6 million learners across Africa through Vodacom e-school and Vodafone Foundation's Instant Schools

- Supporting 360,000 subscribers in 66 institutes in Tanzania and South Africa through Connected Education solution

- Expanding Instant Network Schools program to support 500,000 refugee students and commuities by 2025 in partnership with UNHCR

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Europe & Central Asia, Global, Sub-Saharan Africa

Germany, Greece, South Africa

Activity URL

https://www.vodafone.com/news/digital-society/how-technology-can-help-us-build-education-systems-of-the-future

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Microsoft, UN Refugee Agency, Perlego

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Remote Learning
Quality
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Emergencies and protracted crises

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

12 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning
  • Increased availability of learning materials
Educational Technology
  • Computer-assisted learning
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
  • Online training
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
  • Textbooks (digital)
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
School-related gender-based violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown