Ghana’s government has prioritised educational reform in recent years in a bid to improve access at all levels of the system. To this end, in 2018 the state introduced its Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, an initiative which provides free tuition for attendees at all public secondary schools. On top of this, to improve learning outcomes...
Ghana continues to be one of the most stable countries in sub-Saharan Africa and has developed substantially over the years. Now one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, the country is starting to move away from traditional resource dependency. However, it faces the challenge of ensuring the widest benefit from that expansion, given its growing and increasingly urbanised population.
Although priorities vary when it comes to economic development, the increasing need for skilled labour is both a cause of and a requirement for accelerated growth that spans markets and continents. This demand for technical specialists from Mexico to Indonesia is often most concentrated in the sectors that are vital to economic advancement,...
As the world’s nations and businesses become increasingly interconnected, so too does the flow of global migration. According to the OECD’s “International Migration Outlook 2018”, in 2017 some 258m people resided in a country other than the one they were born in and more than 5m foreign-born persons settled in OECD countries. The flow of...
With relatively low enrolment and a limited presence of internationally recognised operators, Bahrain’s private K-12 education market offers considerable opportunity for expansion, thus a surge of new investment is anticipated over the coming years. Benefitting from high student outcomes and the potential to attract additional students from...
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