Investing in Education

More from this Special Report

• Education: around the world in charts

  What statistics tell us about about basic schooling, funding and priorities

  
• Can we make investing in education add up?

  A lack of reliable data and focused, co-ordinated strategies are holding back progress

  
• Students and schools feel the strain in Mexico’s pandemic

  The crisis highlighted concerns about a system already performing below the OECD average

  
• Schools focus on basic skills to improve poorest children’s chances

  Literacy and numeracy targeted as foundation for later success in low-income countries

  
• Liberia’s schools outsourcing experiment divides opinion

  Educators are split over whether the scheme is a model for others or a harmful failure

  
• Could do better: what students want from schools

  An FT/World Bank competiton asked young people to share their sometimes startling views

  
• How to make spending count in education

  The FT asked an online roundtable of experts about the prospects and priorities for education funding in low-income countries

  
• Can edtech deliver on its pandemic promise?

  The effectiveness of education technology in low-income countries divides opinion

  
• Children need action not warm words on learning poverty

  Clarity, co-operation and leadership are vital if millions of young lives are not to be blighted

  
• Now for the ‘hard part’ of achieving quality education for all

  Getting more of the world’s children in school is the first step but how do we make it count?

  
• Schools must lay the foundations to bridge Africa’s skills gap

  Governments and business have to work together, says Dangote Group’s CEO

  
• Covid-19 can entrench educational inequality — or spur change

  The crisis threatens lasting harm but also creates opportunities, says Kenya’s president

  
• Teachers must be at the heart of post-Covid education recovery

  Policymakers too often fail to grasp frontline needs in low-income countries

  
• Refugees battle barriers to learning in Lebanon

  Students and teachers have made extraordinary efforts but Covid has exacerbated crises

  
• Why ‘Bad Students’ give bad marks to Thailand’s schools

  Pupil protesters say both they and the economy are failed by an authoritarian system