31/08/2020 Resilience and play at heart of VVOB’s latest education projects VVOB is building back better with new projects in cooperation with Mastercard Foundation and LEGO Foundation. RwandaSouth AfricaVietnamZambia Early educationSecondary educationPrimary educationPartnerships
16/03/2020 Catching Up in Kazungula From 27 to 28 January 2020, Rukmini Banerji (Pratham's CEO) visited Zambia with the TaRL Africa Board of Directors to see the Catch Up programme in action. She shares snapshots from the visit and reflections on the Catch Up programme: "Everyone was making progress."... Zambia Primary education
17/01/2020 VVOB on board LEGO Foundation’s global partnership for Learning through Play The LEGO Foundation announced a global partnership of organisations that will integrate Learning through Play pedagogies into the official in-service teacher professional development systems for primary school teachers. VVOB takes up this responsibility in Vietnam. Vietnam Primary educationTeachersPartnerships
08/12/2019 Curbing the learning crisis: Zambia’s Catch Up programme shows it’s possible Learners who fall behind in primary education need access to effective recourse programmes to catch up. With the Teaching at the Right Level methodology, the Zambian Ministry of Education and its partners have shown how we could approach this. Zambia Primary education
29/11/2019 1,400+ Rwandan teachers and school leaders graduate On 29 November, VVOB, University of Rwanda - College of Education and Rwanda Education Board graduated over 1,400 teachers and school leaders after successfully completing continuous professional development trainings. Rwanda Secondary educationPrimary educationTeachersSchool leaders
21/08/2019 Equipping adolescents for the future of work: Transforming STEM education In celebration of International Youth Day (12 August), VVOB wrote a blogpost for UNESCO's IIEP Learning Portal. We delve deeper into the importance of investing in STEM teachers and school leaders to make sure their adolescent learners have the skills necessary to secure decent jobs... Rwanda Secondary educationPrimary educationTeachersSchool leaders
27/05/2019 True ownership inspires school leaders to define tailormade solutions International research revealed that 8 out of 10 grade 4 learners (usually 9 years old) in South Africa cannot read for meaning in any language. VVOB partners with decentralised government representatives called circuit managers and other partners to support primary school leaders to tackle these... South Africa Primary educationSchool leadersEquity
14/03/2019 'Teaching at the Right Level' to reach 3 million learners with Co-Impact Proven to be an effective methodology to improve learners' basic skills in Africa, 'Teaching at the Right Level' will soon be implemented at national levels in the contintent thanks to new funding from global collaborative Co-Impact... Zambia Primary educationEquity
24/01/2019 Cambodia’s Minister of Education honours VVOB At VVOB's annual progress review and planning workshop for activities in Cambodia, the country's Minister of Education, Youth and Sport awarded VVOB medals of honour for achieved results... Cambodia Primary educationTeachersGender