Improving Global Education
UCL and LSE in partnership with Tabadlab and UNESCO, London 2023
Improving Global Education
The inequality in global education has long been known and since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic it has become more striking than ever. The World Bank estimates that COVID-19 related school closures could mean that an additional 72 million children of primary-school age could fall into learning poverty, resulting in learning and economic losses far into the future. The effects of the pandemic on global education presents a crisis within a crisis and participants were tasked with the complex challenge of improving global education for children. As parents and teachers have been identified as key contributors to a child’s learning, our teams were split in two to target behaviour change in both groups. The first half were challenged with using behavioural interventions to increase parental engagement in their child’s learning while the second half were tasked with increasing the application of social and emotional learning techniques by teachers.