The Africa We Want: World Bank to hold jobs policy meeting in Nairobi to discuss Africa’s skills gap
With global megatrends such as digitalisation, artificial intelligence, green skills and climate change reshaping the future of work, the academy will underscore the urgency of demand-driven, inclusive and high-quality skills systems that can support upskilling, reskilling and lifelong learning for diverse groups, including youth, women in both formal and informal sectors.
With world’s highest school dropouts due to high cost of education, questions emerge whether Catholic Church should privatise its centres
The Catholic Church is the region’s largest non-governmental investor in education. Catholic schools have long been a pillar of affordable but high-quality education, especially for poor families.
As African leaders fret about biased credit rating, here’s how continent’s craving for modernity fuelled debt bomb
Essential to the plan were the “Big Three” US-based credit rating agencies – S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s Ratings and Fitch Ratings, which together account for more than 90 per cent of global ratings. The rating agencies collected fees for their services and began applying their complex analyses to the region.
