This UKFIET blog identifies strong capabilities among communities towards developing and sustaining their own educational provision. Local NGOs have been innovating for years on educational provision that can serve children in under-resourced areas. Accelerated education has been one of such innovations which has proven to be effective at enhancing foundational skills in literacy and numeracy.
Evidence shows that it supports transitions into primary and junior secondary schools and that once in formal school, the progress for the majority of children who experienced accelerated learning is similar to that of children who have been attending government schools.
In this blog, the authors provide some of the key findings that have emerged from their research on Accelerated Education Programmes (AEPs) in Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, supported by GPE/KIX/IDRC over the last 5 years.