Lee Crawfurd
Advisor @Rwanda_Edu @InstituteGC /// Fellow @CfEdnEcon /// PhD candidate @SussexUni /// Previously @EPG_Edu @CGDev @riseprogramme @OPMGlobal
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PM’s chief of staff did not act on multiple warnings about fire safety in months before Grenfell, new letters show
Inside Housing, news, analysis, and comment about the social housing sector in the UK.
Petition: Condemn Sudan’s use of lethal force vs protests, pressure for democratic change
We call on the British government to condemn in the strongest terms the Sudanese regime's use of lethal force, including live ammunition, against the pro-democracy movement in Sudan. We further request that it pressure Khartoum to heed the...
Do Tory leadership tax plans add up?
Some of the contenders are pledging big tax cuts.
Uganda Economic Update: Investing $2 Billion Will Put One Million More Children in School
The latest economic update emphasizes the importance of spending more public money on education and improving human capital.
Call immigrant detention centers what they really are: concentration camps
Dead prisoners. Transgender people in solitary. Kids left in vans. This is what's happening in America's growing system of concentration camps for immigrants.
Beyond Getting Girls in School: Addressing Unfinished Business to Achieve Women’s Equality
Over the past two decades tremendous progress has been made to improve girls’ access to schooling. Data on learning similarly shows that gender gaps are closing or largely closed. Yet education systems are still failing to meet one important...
YouTube says anti-gay slurs don't break its rules
The video-sharing site faces a row over homophobic insults, while it claims to support LGBT rights.
Testing the feasibility of a value‐added model of school quality in a low‐income country - Crawfurd - 2019 - Development Policy Review - Wiley Online Library
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Why don't more countries use value-added models to measure school quality?
Phil Elks and I found that existing exams data in Uganda can be used to make a fairer more accurate measure of secondary school performance
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BE A WORLD LEADER!
The next leader of the Conservative Party won’t just be our next Prime Minister, they’ll be a world leader on the global stage.
Lee Crawfurd
I’ve signed a letter to Conservative Leadership candidates asking them to protect #UKaid. Please join me.
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PISA-D Reveals Exceptionally Low Learning | RISE Programme
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Someone just told me about how England has an education quality problem too. It's true, about 1 in 5 English teenagers fall below the PISA minimum proficiency level in reading.
In Senegal though its 90%. And in Zambia 95%.
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Policy adoption of learner-centred pedagogy in Rwanda: A case study of its rationale and transfer mechanisms
This study explores why and how learner-centred pedagogy (LCP) as a policy has been adopted in Rwanda, despite ample evidence of the failure of LCP in…
Lee Crawfurd
@Fihi_maFihi @PaulineMRose @Samfr @NicSpaull @ODIdev @susan_nicolai there's a new paper on it here sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pic.twitter.com/dSuPvcZBff
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Report: Youth Skills for the 4IR
To tackle the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution, youth need to develop soft skills, technical skills, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship.
The disaster that is Kenya’s new “competency-based”curriculum
This is from Business Daily: ….. a Grade Two student at a private primary school in Kiambu County, gets upset every evening that his father, Joseph Mutiga, returns home without a printer. His…
Neba Solo - Can 2002 (2019 reissue, music video)
In 1999, a friend of the young musician Neba Solo informed him that his country, Mali, would host the world-famous football event Africa Cup of Nations in 20...
May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all
Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.
Deplorables
Group dynamics: identity and prejudice ...
Lee Crawfurd
I'm in the wrong discipline. I could have been a scholar of the Walking Dead
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Uneb accused of undermarking top city schools
Uganda National Examinations Board has dismissed the allegation as false and baseless
Lee Crawfurd
Some Ugandan parents are worried that kids from elite Kampala schools are being marked down in national exams, so this one moved one of their kids to a worse school as a test
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Go home, you are 55
An age-based policy will not solve performance-related issues.