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VARKEY FOUNDATION BELIEVES IN A QUALITY EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD. THAT’S WHY, TOGETHER WITH ITS PARTNERS, THEY WORK TO BUILD THE CAPACITY AND STATUS OF TEACHERS TO ENSURE THAT THE QUALITY OF TEACHING IS ENHANCED, AND OUTCOMES WILL IMPROVE.
The Varkey Foundation is an international organisation based in the United Kingdom, with offices in Dubai, Ghana, Uganda and Argentina, where the foundation’s agenda is implemented in three different regions of the planet. By funding education research, partnering with governments and working with local policy experts, it aims to provide teachers with the conditions necessary to improve educational standards.
Worldwide, the Foundation funds the training of 46,000 teachers, works to improve school leadership in more than 3,000 schools and the quality of learning for nearly 1.6 million students.
The Varkey Foundation’s vision is that quality education is for every child – by building the capacity and raising the status of teachers around the world.
“Teachers matter. Every day, in classrooms around the world, teachers do amazing things. But too often, their work goes unrecognised and unrewarded.
Research by The Varkey Foundation carried out in 2013 (the Global Teacher Status Index research) found that few people see teaching as a high-status job and few think pupils respect their teachers. Relatively few parents say they would encourage their children to be teachers.
We also know that there is a shortage of teachers across the world – with more 69 million teachers needed to provide universal primary and secondary education by 2030.
We believe that teachers are critical to our global future. Through our work across the world, we’ve seen how great teachers can transform the lives of their students and their wider communities for the better. That’s why, together with our partners, we work to build their capacity and raise their status in order to raise standards of education for children across the world.
And too often, teachers are not training or supported to be effective – and that means pupils are not learning. One recent study from the World Bank showed that only 9% of teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa had the minimum required knowledge of pedagogy to effectively teach the curriculum, and only 7% could correctly mark a year 4 test on spelling and comprehension.
Today we work, research and campaign all around the world, and everything we do is driven by one simple belief: teachers matter.
Sunny Varkey, Founder, Varkey Foundation”
VARKEY FOUNDATION BELIEVES IN A QUALITY EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD. THAT’S WHY, TOGETHER WITH ITS PARTNERS, THEY WORK TO BUILD THE CAPACITY AND STATUS OF TEACHERS TO ENSURE THAT THE QUALITY OF TEACHING IS ENHANCED, AND OUTCOMES WILL IMPROVE.
The Varkey Foundation is an international organisation based in the United Kingdom, with offices in Dubai, Ghana, Uganda and Argentina, where the foundation’s agenda is implemented in three different regions of the planet. By funding education research, partnering with governments and working with local policy experts, it aims to provide teachers with the conditions necessary to improve educational standards.
Worldwide, the Foundation funds the training of 46,000 teachers, works to improve school leadership in more than 3,000 schools and the quality of learning for nearly 1.6 million students.
The Varkey Foundation’s vision is that quality education is for every child – by building the capacity and raising the status of teachers around the world.
“Teachers matter. Every day, in classrooms around the world, teachers do amazing things. But too often, their work goes unrecognised and unrewarded.
Research by The Varkey Foundation carried out in 2013 (the Global Teacher Status Index research) found that few people see teaching as a high-status job and few think pupils respect their teachers. Relatively few parents say they would encourage their children to be teachers.
We also know that there is a shortage of teachers across the world – with more 69 million teachers needed to provide universal primary and secondary education by 2030.
We believe that teachers are critical to our global future. Through our work across the world, we’ve seen how great teachers can transform the lives of their students and their wider communities for the better. That’s why, together with our partners, we work to build their capacity and raise their status in order to raise standards of education for children across the world.
And too often, teachers are not training or supported to be effective – and that means pupils are not learning. One recent study from the World Bank showed that only 9% of teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa had the minimum required knowledge of pedagogy to effectively teach the curriculum, and only 7% could correctly mark a year 4 test on spelling and comprehension.
Today we work, research and campaign all around the world, and everything we do is driven by one simple belief: teachers matter.
Sunny Varkey, Founder, Varkey Foundation”