Cost-effective options for enhancing transition and progression of hard-to-reach populations in basic school in Ghana: Complementary basic education (CBE) model and formal education system

The issue brief compares the value of Ghana’s Comprehensive Basic Education (CBE) programme versus the cost of formal schooling. The findings show that current costs in the programme are 21% less than those in the regular system, indicating a cost saving potential in upscaling and transitioning CBE to public budget.

The 2021 KIX Symposium

The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX), a joint endeavour between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), hosted the Second Annual KIX Symposium on November 9, 2021. The purpose of the event was to share updates on progress made in the second year of the initiative, address upcoming KIX priorities and dive into two important education priorities from a regional perspective: early childhood education and teacher professional development.

KIX Africa 19 Hub National Dialogue

On September 22, 2021, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., East Africa Time, a national dialogue was hosted in Kenya to foster a shared understanding on the role and function of the regional KIX Africa 19 Hub towards strengthening national education systems and accelerating educational progress.

KIX EAP Podcast #6: Dr. Elena Kardanova Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA) features Dr Elena Kardanova, Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia and the Director of the Institute of Education’s Centre for Psychometrics and Measurement in Education. Dr Kardanova explores the question of how researchers can balance international publishing in English while still disseminating local knowledge and other challenges.

KIX EAP Webinar 8: What has COVID-19 done to education and research? (EN)

The 8th Knowledge Innovation Exchange (KIX) Europe | Asia | Pacific (EAP) webinar explored the question “What has COVID-19 done to education and research?” This KIX EAP webinar was organised by NORRAG in collaboration with Professor Elaine Unterhalter, one of the guest editors of NORRAG Special Issue 06: States of Emergency: Education in the time of Covid-19, and the following authors of the special issue – Pravindharan Balakrishnan, Professor Marie Lall and Dr. Kusha Anand.

WHERE KIX WORKS

KIX brings together 86 low- and middle-income countries that are partners of the Global Partnership for Education to identify common policy challenges and facilitate knowledge sharing and evidence building. KIX currently funds 50 projects across these 86 countries. Click through the countries in the map to learn about the work that is being done in each country.

 
 

WHAT KIX DOES

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KIX is designed to be shaped by the demand from national education systems and respond to their principal policy and programming challenges. KIX both funds research and facilitates knowledge sharing among country stakeholders to enhance their education systems using relevant evidence and actionable research.

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, countries are working to ensure quality in their education systems, measured by the level of achievement in students’…

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Bringing back to school out-of-school children and youth has been one of the key challenges for many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The largest…

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Entrenched social norms and systemic barriers remain pervasive challenges to achieving gender equality in education; disparities in access,…

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This paper is one of a series of working papers commissioned by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Knowledge…
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External champions who support and promote a scaling initiative play an integral role in the success of any scaling…
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Research from ROSIE makes clear that ROSIE teams experienced tension between the broader push to implement or scale the…