Sustained, purposeful investment key to ‘leaving no girl behind’, either in education or beyond

A UK-funded programme to support out-of-school girls in low-income countries has significantly enhanced their learning, confidence, opportunities and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2023 ~9 min

Pre-primary education "chronically” underfunded as richest nations drift further away from 10% aid goal

New research shows proportion of international education aid for early childhood learning fell to just 1.1% post-pandemic, far short of an agreed 10% target.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 17, 2023 ~7 min


Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 7, 2022 ~6 min

Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid

Analysis of a results-based-financing programme for education aid in Ethiopia finds that multiple aspects of the arrangement were unfit for purpose from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 30, 2022 ~7 min

Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries

A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower and middle-income countries

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 7, 2021 ~7 min

School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in Global South, study warns

As much as a year’s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 9, 2021 ~6 min

‘Left behind’ adolescent women must be prioritised within sustainable development agenda - report

The needs of millions of overlooked, ‘left behind’ adolescent women must become a more significant priority within international efforts to end poverty by

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 11, 2021 ~7 min

School segregation by wealth is creating unequal learning outcomes for children in the Global South

Millions of the world’s poorest children are leaving school without mastering even basic levels of reading or maths because of an overlooked pattern of widespread, wealth-based inequalities in their countries’ education systems, new research suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 27, 2020 ~6 min


Surging numbers of first-generation learners at risk of being left behind in education systems worldwide

‘First-generation learners’ – a substantial number of pupils around the world who represent the first generation in their families to receive an education – are also significantly more likely to leave school without basic literacy or numeracy skills, a study suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 21, 2020 ~6 min

Global coalition needed to transform girls’ education - report

A new report aims to provide a framework so that "governments and those in power can turn goodwill into action”.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 25, 2020 ~6 min

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