CREATE Partners
CREATE is a partnership between education and development
institutions in the UK, South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa led
by the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.
The CREATE partners are located in countries which DFID has
had a strong interest in supporting the development of Basic
Education and in the UK with institutions specialising in educational
development internationally.
The geographic spread includes two high population countries
in Asia - India and Bangladesh – which have widely recognised
problems in providing access to education to all school age
children and which have made impressive progress but remain
with large numbers failing to complete primary and some secondary
schooling successfully. In Sub-Saharan Africa the two countries
chosen for the min focu of the work have contrasting characteristics.
Ghana has progressed towards EFA but access remains unevenly
and inequitably distributed, and has faltered over the last
decade in reaching out to the last 20%. South Africa has grappled
with transition issues since 1994 and, though it has the best
educational infrastructure and most developed policy frameworks,
significant numbers of children still fail to complete a basic
cycle of education successfully and effective participation
remains heavily skewed by race and household income.
The countries contain a wide range of conditions related to
initial access, retention, completion and transition rates
into lower secondary. They vary in terms of the proportions
of vulnerable children, gender disparities, migrant populations,
health and nutritional status, HIV and AIDS, non-state provision,
the financial resources available for education, and levels
of general economic development. All receive external assistance
for education designed to assist in achieving the MDGs.
The main consortium partners consist of two institutions in
Sub-Saharan Africa, two in South Asia, along with three UK
based centres of excellence in development
> CREATE Researchers
|
|
| Partners |
The Partner Institutions (PI)
and
Co-ordinators (PICs) are: |
|
The
Centre for International Education, University of Sussex,
UK |
|
Institute
of Education and Development, BRAC University, Dhaka,
Bangladesh |
|
NUEPA,
The National University of Educational Planning and Administration,
Delhi, India |
|
The
Education Policy Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa |
|
The
University of Education at Winneba and the University of Cape Coast, Ghana |
|
The
Institute of Education, University of London, UK |
|
