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The advent of COVID-19 has exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education and training systems and reinforce the need for innovative solutions that are fit for context, and can be scaled up sustainably to meet the continually evolving context of education and training. Although the education deficit in Africa is large, significant progress has been made over the past decade. About a fifth of children between the ages of 6-11 are out of school, whereas for children between 12-14 exclusion is about 33%; and an estimated 60% of youth between the ages of 15-17 not in school, with girls more negatively affected. Thus, access remains a challenge at different levels.
African Union awards three outstanding education innovations
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ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) The African Union (AU) has awarded three outstanding education innovations including a project used during the COVID-19.
During the Innovating Education in Africa Pitch Event 2020, the innovations were awarded grants of 60,000, 40,000, and 20,000 U.S. dollars according to their ranks, said the 55-member pan-African bloc in a statement on Wednesday.
The grants would be used to undertake pilot projects in collaboration with AU member states, it said, indicating that one of the innovations aimed to help teachers and parents during the COVID-19.
The innovations include BAG (Building A Generation), which is a gamified platform that offers real-time access to experience-based learning for university students; Learnable, which is a teaching assistant that allows teachers to compose and distribute lessons via a dedicated mobile app and WhatsAp