Dennis Sinyolo
Dennis Sinyolo is the Director of Education International’s African Regional Office in Accra, Ghana.
Written by Dennis Sinyolo
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 April 2022 IMF policies undermine quality education
Dennis Sinyolo
Teacher quality, status, and conditions matter. Quality learning depends on quality teaching, delivered by qualified, well-supported, and motivated teachers.
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Standards and working conditions 29 October 2021 UNICEF’s Innocenti Report on teacher absenteeism in Africa: The wrong approach at the worst time
Dennis Sinyolo
This year, as the education community around the world gathered to mark World Teachers’ Day (5th October) and celebrate teachers for their dedication to duty and contribution to quality education for all, Twitter users were greeted by a message from UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti, sharing their recent report on teacher...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 September 2021 Financing quality education for all requires investment and taxes.
Dennis Sinyolo
It is time to talk taxes. If more domestic revenue is not found, the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 4 on quality education, will simply become one more set of international unmet promises.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 April 2021 “Investing in education: a must for post-pandemic recovery and SDG progress”, by Dennis Sinyolo
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage communities and test education systems around the world. Evidence from Education International’s surveys on the impact of COVID-19 on education shows that the equity and quality gaps have widened because of the pandemic (see for examplehere andhere) .
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 8 November 2019 “Impoverishing the poor: the deficiencies of the World Bank’s learning poverty goal”, by Dennis Sinyolo.
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On 17 October, the World Bank announced a new global target for education aimed at reducing ‘learning poverty’ - the percentage of children who are unable to read by the age of 10 – in half by 2030. The World Bank’s initiative is a step in the wrong direction, and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 April 2018 Towards Inclusive Quality School Leadership, By Dennis Sinyolo
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School leaders play a pivotal role in the provision of quality education and in ensuring equity and equal educational opportunities for all children, pupils and students. School leaders can help to create and maintain a positive school climate and a culture of peace, tolerance, equity, inclusiveness, cooperation and hard work...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 November 2012 Quality-Ed projectQuality-Ed project
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Standards and working conditions Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countries
Dennis Sinyolo
19 December 2007Teacher supply, recruitment and retention in six Anglophone Sub-Saharan African countriesThe purpose of this survey was to investigate teacher supply, teacher attrition, teacher remuneration and motivation, teacher absenteeism and union involvement in policy development in six Anglophone African countries: The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania Uganda and Zambia.