My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Heather Beem wants every science student on the continent to be able to understand and remember meiosis or Newton’s First Law of Motion because they were taught in such a memorable way. […]
My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Afia Bobia Amanfo has her academic roots in social sciences. But when the need arose, she taught herself to build websites and is now growing a web-based platform that prepares African undergraduates […]
My Life In Tech is putting human faces to some of the innovative startups, investments and policy formations driving the technology sector across Africa. Boye Oshinaga has always been interested in education and in how Nigeria can reform the sector into one that caters to the individual needs of students helping them play to their strengths […]
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says 91.3% of the world’s learning population have now been impacted by global shutdowns to curb the spread of the C0VID-19 virus as at April 5, 2020. This means over 1.5 billion students in 188 countries are currently out of their classrooms with no timeframe as […]
Nigeria is not a choice destination for quality education if you were to judge by international higher education rankings. Teachers and policymakers are operationally limited by a dubious history of funding, among other factors. As a consequence, when you discuss ‘education’ with a Nigeria-educated Nigerian, the conversation does not usually reflect a stock of pleasurable […]
While many countries are enforcing a lock-down, learning is still going on, thanks in part to edtech apps like Gradely which allow teachers to access content and make their work easier.