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Press Release: Education Cannot Wait Approves US $33.3 Million for Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in the Central Sahel
In response to escalating crises in the Central Sahel, these new programmes will reach 300,000 children and youth impacted by displacement, conflict and COVID-19
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brainly Raises $80 Million as Its Platform for Crowdsourced Homework Help Balloons to 350 Million Users
Brainly, a startup from Poland that has built a popular network for students and their parents to engage with each other for advice and help with homework questions, has raised $80 million, a series D that it will be using both to continue building out the tools that it offers to students as well as to home in on expansion in some key emerging markets such as Indonesia and Brazil. The news comes on the heels of dramatic growth for the company, which has seen its user base grow from 150 million users in 2019 to 350 million today.
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- Education
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- startups
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Press Release: Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education Partners With Intellimedia Networks to Continue to Digitally Transform the Ethiopian Higher Education and Vocational Training Sector
The Ethiopian Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE) agrees to join forces with IntelliMedia Networks Inc. and its local partners Andalem Consulting PLC and United Systems Integrators, to enable a country-wide online learning platform to streamline access to higher learning across Ethiopia and improve quality of education and training for undergraduate and graduate students.
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- Education
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Henry Closes Us $1.5 Million Seed Round Led by Accion Venture Lab to Provide Technical Education to Students in Latin America
Henry’s model leverages remote learning and innovative financing structure (ISA) to provide technology courses for no upfront costs
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- Education
- Region
- Latin America
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- impact investing, startups
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Nigerian Government Launches Digital Skill Acquisition, Employability, Entrepreneurship and Leadership Initiative
The Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports has launched the DEEL initiative aimed at giving Nigerian Youth an added advantage and a competitive edge in the global workforce.
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- Education, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Keeping Girls in School Is Worth Billions To Developing Nations
New analysis finds that investing in girls' education will forge fairer and wealthier societies.
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- Coronavirus, Education
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MFIs in India: Need Social Impact Monitoring
The pandemic has necessitated the need to re-look at the tenets of MFI lending
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- Education, Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Avoiding Information Overload: Four Lessons From a Performance Manager on How To Use Data To Drive Development Outcomes
Development impact bonds (DIBs) are a popular way to drive successful social outcomes – but assessing a program's effectiveness requires a lot of data. Dayoung Lee and Dia Banerjee at Dalberg Advisors share lessons they've learned from managing the performance of the world’s largest education DIB, showing how data can improve outcomes without causing undue burdens on the organizations that should be benefiting from it.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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