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The sustainable goal that stuck out to me the most is quality education. Education is very important to me and I think that everyone deserves to get a good education. There are so many children who do not receive the proper support, and that affects their whole childhood and adulthood. Quality education is an issue happening all around the world.

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Goal #4: Quality Education, is to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all."

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272 million children out of school (2023)

Children (mainly girls) face cultural/economic barriers

Conflict and violence

Curriculum limitations

Funding

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Equity- every child/student getting the support they need. This includes students with disabilities

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Technology has many tools that play a big part in quality education such as:

Khan Academy

Coursera

Google Classroom

Canvas

Itslearning

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Quality education can include teaching students about sustainability, global citizenship, climate action, etc

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Volunteer as a tutor

Support nonprofits

Advocate

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Malala Yousafzai is a global advocate for education. She faced many challenges growing up, including violence for attending school. She is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner

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Good Reason Houston is a nonprofit organization that partners with Houston school districts to help children succeed in high quality learning environments

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1 in 5 children do not complete elementary school

1.6 billion children were affected by school closures during COVID

754 million adults are unable to read and write

Reading and math scores declined between 2019-2023

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"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." John C. Maxwell

"Watch a teacher with a classroom full of students, and you'll see what real love looks like." Teresa Kwant

"Sometimes the greatest PD is the teacher down the hall." Brian Aspinall

Teaching is so much more than just showing kids how to do math or how to write

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Teachers React To Heartfelt Letters From Their Students | Cut

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There are millions of children that are in refugee camps and war zones who are hungry for learning. UNICEF provides a School-In-A-Box Kit children in crisis

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The quality of education in Sub Saharan Africa is very poor. There is a shortage of trained teachers, causing high student-teacher ratios. Many schools there lack basics like water and electricity. There is a lot of poverty in this region as well, making it hard to keep children in school. All of these factors lead to high dropout rates.

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There are millions of girls who are out of school due to many factors. Many families go through economic hardships, leading to poverty. This causes prioritization on boys education. Practices like child marriage and pregnancy are common in this region and are prioritized over education. Cultural norms also undervalue education for girls.

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Organizations such a as UNESCO and Instill Education are helping with the education state of Sub Saharan Africa with implementing things like teacher training programs and starting partnerships

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EDINBURGH, United Kingdom - A new company called Instill Education has recently created a number of programs aimed at addressing the lack of access to education in sub-Saharan Africa. The company works across a number of countries to both offer fast and affordable accreditation programs for prospective teachers and helps train existing teachers who either do not have existing teaching qualifications or who do not have access to professional development programs that ensure the quality of their teaching stays high.

Education Problems in Sub-Saharan Africa

U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 4 aims to provide quality and universal primary and secondary education everywhere by 2030. However, access to education in sub-Saharan Africa is particularly low. In fact, less than 20% of children in sub-Saharan Africa meet the minimum proficiency level set by the U.N, in either math or reading. This in turn has a significant effect on children's ability to lift themselves out of poverty, as education is vital to achieving social mobility. In fact, a study conducted by UNESCO has concluded that an estimated 60 million people could be lifted out of poverty if every adult had just two more years of education.

One of the major reasons why there is such a dearth of access to education in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of teachers available. An average of 5 million new teachers are needed to effectively account for the number of children of school age, and with the number of children expected to grow rapidly, the estimated number of teachers needed to provide universal access to education in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 will likely increase to 15 million.

In addition to the shortage of teachers, another problem is that many of the existing teachers in sub-Saharan Africa do not have proper teaching qualifications, and even those that do lack access to professional development programs that allow them to improve and maintain the quality of their teaching.

Instill Education and Solutions

Founded by Alim Ladha, Instill Education seeks to develop ways to address both the shortage of teachers needed to provide universal access to education in sub-Saharan Africa, and the lack of access to training programs for existing teachers needed to ensure quality access to education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Shortage of Teachers

In January 2023, Instill Education acquired an accreditation license in South Africa to offer the second fully accredited program in South Africa that qualifies people to become new teachers. The program is offered both online and in person and can be completed in either one or two years, depending on whether the student chooses to enroll full- or part-time. Furthermore, although these qualification programs are only available in South Africa at the moment, Instill does hope to expand educational qualification programs into other sub-Saharan African countries such as Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.

Training Existing Teachers

In addition to offering qualification programs to prospective teachers, Instill Education has made it easier for existing teachers to receive professional development on a regular basis, to ensure they are consistently maintaining and improving their teaching knowledge and skills in order to best help their students learn. They do so by offering an online program with a series of modules that teachers can complete on their own time. The program, developed with the help of academics, was launched on an existing third-party platform and through their new app called Upskill, which has the extra feature of allowing users to complete modules while offline.

After working together with the Ghanaian government and the Mastercard Foundation, Instill Education's program has obtained 10,000 users in Ghana since its release, and an internal study suggests that teachers are retaining and applying the information they have learned in their classrooms. Moreover, since its release in April 2023, Upskill has been downloaded over 5,000 times, and recently, Instill formed partnerships with government organizations in Nigeria and Kenya to help expand the program's presence.

Conclusion

Education remains one of the most vital mechanisms to fight global poverty. However, in order to ensure that children are able to receive proper education, schools need teachers. In sub-Saharan Africa, this is particularly true. In fact, by 2030 the number of new teachers needed to ensure universal access to education in sub-Saharan Africa is likely to be 15 million. One part of the solution to this problem will likely be Instill Education, a company making it easier for aspiring teachers to receive qualifications and for existing teachers to receive necessary professional development across sub-Saharan African countries.

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Improving Access to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa - BORGEN

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Instill Education has recently created a number of programs aimed at addressing the lack of access to education in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Niger is also struggling very much when it comes to quality education. They are the least literate nation in the entire world. This nation has a very low adult literacy rate, and a high percentage of dropouts. 90% of children of the age of 10 are not able to read and understand.

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Organizations such as UNICEF, GPE, and UNOPS are attempting to help the state of quality education in Niger by helping with things such as infrastructure and providing education tools. They have installed things like solar panel banks and more technology to enhance students' learning. Teacher shortage is also a major issue in this nation, so these organizations have also implemented teacher development programs.

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This article shows how much GPE has helped with quality education in the nation of Niger. They have made a super big impact and are helping little by little

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In Niger, children face numerous obstacles to accessing and completing education, particularly girls living in rural areas.

Poor infrastructure, teacher absenteeism, an outdated curriculum and a lack of teaching and learning materials result in lost learning time - up to one-third of the school year for many children. By the end of primary education, only 30% of students have mastered basic reading skills and 23% math skills, making it difficult to progress through the education system. The dropout rate for grade 6 students is 33% for girls and 28% for boys.

Given how much of the school year is lost in Niger, the government is working with GPE and other partners to improve instructional time for better learning and greater efficiency.

Niger plans to replace over 36,000 straw hut classrooms, which are vulnerable to bad weather and fires, and build additional classrooms, dormitories to help retain girls in secondary education, and learning centers in conflict areas to ensure the most vulnerable students have better access to education.

Additionally, reforming teacher development, deployment, status and career ladders aims to decrease teacher absenteeism and increase teacher effectiveness in the classroom; and curriculum redesign will focus on core subjects, early grades, use of national languages and scripted lesson tools to make the best use of learning time.

Transversal to Niger's efforts to transform its education system is a commitment to gender-responsive planning and policy development.

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Education in Niger | Global Partnership for Education

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Learn more about education in Niger, view grant information and education data, and explore the results and progress made by the country.

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How will the literacy rates in Niger change after organizations provide help and support to their education system?

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How much does parent/family involvement play a part in a child's education?