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Tech limitations and education assessment methods failed to accurately gauge student progress and identify learning losses created by COVID and piled pressure on teachers at a critical time, a new report by T4 Education in collaboration with EdTech Hub finds. The findings in six low- and middle-income countries were highlighted by outlets such as the Financial Express and CNN News 18 in India, the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Manila Times in the Philippines, Vanguard and the Guardian in Nigeria, and by Global EdTech.

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This month, we announced the Top 10 shortlists for our five World's Best School Prizes. We celebrated the stories of these 50 inspirational schools across 29 countries, giving them a global platform so others can learn from them. The schools were hailed all over the world in the international press from the BBC, Independent, TES and Daily Mail in the UK, to the Times of India, The Star in Malaysia, Manila Bulletin in the Philippines, CBC News in Canada, ABC in Australia, InMenlo in California, Clarin in Argentina, El Tiempo in Colombia, Porvir in Brazil, The Times in South Africa, The Nation in Kenya, Punch in Nigeria, and Gulf News and The National in the UAE.

Meet the top 10

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.