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EPISODE · Dec 18, 2018 · 22 MIN

Can US Entrepreneurs Help Fix Education in Africa?

from People Fixing the World · host BBC World Service

Many African countries face huge challenges in education. Millions of children completing primary school still struggle to read and teachers that should be in classrooms are routinely absent. Two US entrepreneurs think they have a solution: a network of profit-driven low-cost private schools, called Bridge Academies, that can be created and staffed at lightning speed. Lessons are scripted by ‘master educators’, and teachers read them aloud, word for word, from e-readers. Along with awards, the model has attracted a tidal wave of criticism from teaching unions, NGOs and governments too. World Hacks visits a Bridge Academy in Kenya to ask whether the controversial idea can work.Presenter: Kat Hawkins Reporter: Sam JudahPhoto Credit: BBC

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