How do you take quality secondary education to scale without compromising on quality or cost?
For a young person, a good education can mean far more than time spent in a classroom. It can provide agency, improve future opportunities and give them a stronger chance to shape what comes next. But millions of young people still don’t have access to that kind of education, particularly in lower-income communities.
Lee Crawfurd’s latest piece for the Center for Global Development makes the case for investing in approaches that can reach more children, deliver strong outcomes and do so sustainably.
He highlights 34 brilliant organisations doing important work in education with an eye to scale and cost-effectiveness – and we’re delighted to see PEAS included!
Lee knows PEAS’ work better than most. He studied the PEAS school network as part of his PhD, and describes it in the piece as “extremely well-managed”.
PEAS runs a network of quality, affordable schools, while using the experience and evidence from those schools to support governments to improve education at a much larger scale across Uganda, Zambia and Ghana.
Today, 46 PEAS schools educate more than 27,000 students each year. Through partnerships with governments, PEAS also works with 550 schools, helping to strengthen education for more than 300,000 young people.
Lee’s piece asks a bigger question about where new philanthropy could have the greatest impact in education. We’re proud to see PEAS included in that conversation, alongside some brilliant organisations working on different parts of the education challenge.
Thanks to Lee and the Center for Global Development for the recognition, and for putting education firmly on the agenda.
Read the full piece here.
PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools) supports young people in Sub-Saharan Africa to access quality education and brighter futures by building high-quality schools, developing innovations that improve school leadership, safety, teaching and learning, and working with governments to scale them.