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This month, T4 Education launched the new Africa Education Medal in collaboration with HP and Intel. The new award will be given to an outstanding individual who has demonstrated impact, leadership, and advocacy in the field of education.

We founded the new medal to recognise the tireless work of those who are transforming education across the continent – to celebrate the stories of those who have lit the spark of change so others will be inspired to take up the torch.

The Africa Education Medal has been featured on Citizen TV in Kenya and in The Star, Capital FM and Business Daily, as well as Punch, the Guardian, Independent, Vanguard and Business Day in Nigeria and Channel Africa in South Africa.

The World Bank, T4 Education and over 11,000 teachers this month called on governments, the international community and tech companies to work together to ensure every school in the world has reliable internet access and enough devices to bring educational technology (EdTech) into every classroom to close global learning gaps.

The communiqué, issued after the Teacher Tech Summit 2022, also called for EdTech to be designed in collaboration with teachers and harnessed to reduce educational inequalities. It has been signed by leading organisations including Scholastic, Cambridge Partnership for Education, the Lemann Foundation, Save the Children, Owl Ventures, and over 11,000 teachers from around the world including award-winning UK teacher Andria Zafirakou.

The communique made headlines around the world including the Indian Express, the Philippines Daily Inquirer in print, Education Technology, Global EdTech and ReliefWeb.

We have been overwhelmed by the response from schools across the globe to The World’s Best School Prizes after they featured in publications around the world from TES in the UK to Gulf News and the Khaleej Times in the UAE, The Tribune in India, Clarín in Argentina, O Globo, Porvir and UOL in Brazil, and Our Today in Jamaica.
The new $250,000 Prizes will celebrate schools everywhere for the pivotal role they play in developing the next generation of learners and for their enormous contribution to society’s progress, especially in the wake of COVID.

We are excited to announce we will reveal the Top 10 shortlist for each of the five World’s Best School Prizes in June.

All 50 shortlisted schools across the five Prizes will share their best practices through toolkits that showcase their “secret sauce” to innovative approaches and step-by-step instructions on how others can replicate their methods to help improve education everywhere.