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LATEST EPISODE
LATEST EPISODE
Ugochukwu Chuwkwujiaka sat down with Brian Rosenberg to discuss his ideas on the purposes of education, and how and why education needs to evolve especially in developing nations.
Brian Rosenberg is currently President in Residence and Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 2003 until 2020, he served as the 16th President of Macalester College.
He serves as Senior Advisor to the President of the African Leadership University and as a member of the boards of the Teagle Foundation, the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, and Allina Health. He is the author of two books and many articles on Victorian literature.
FEATURED EPISODES
FEATURED EPISODES
His Excellency, the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007 is our guest on this episode of Education in Developing Nations.
Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Chief Olusegun at the former President's premises in Ogun State.
His Excellency talks about his learning experience as a young man, his time as head of state and President and the work he did in education during that time.
Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Fred Swaniker, the founder of African Leadership Group to explore questions about education entrepreneur, the building and running of Africa Leadership University, and the key ingredient of a successful global education company.
Fred is deeply passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. In line with this, he has co-founded three organisations that aim to catalyse a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Network, and African Leadership University.
Season III
Season III
His Excellency, the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo who served as Nigeria's head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as its president from 1999 to 2007 is our guest on this episode of Education in Developing Nations.
Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Chief Olusegun at the former President's premises in Ogun State.
His Excellency talks about his learning experience as a young man, his time as head of state and President and the work he did in education during that time.
In June 2006, Dr. Ezekwesili became Minister of Education, Nigeria and led a comprehensive reform program within the education sector including restructuring and refocusing the ministry for the attainment of Education for All (EFA) targets and Millennium Development Goals and reduced the number of out-of-school-children in Nigeria in 2007.
Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Dr. Obiageli to discuss her time as minister of education, what she found, the policy she enacted and the lesson learnt from that period.
Season II
Season II
Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka sat down with Fred Swaniker, the founder of African Leadership Group to explore questions about education entrepreneur, the building and running of Africa Leadership University, and the key ingredient of a successful global education company.
Fred is deeply passionate about Africa and believes that the missing ingredient on the continent is good leadership. In line with this, he has co-founded three organisations that aim to catalyse a new generation of ethical, entrepreneurial African leaders: African Leadership Academy, African Leadership Network, and African Leadership University.
I interviewed Dzingai Mutumbuka, who participated in the struggle for Zimbabwe’s Independence rising through the ranks to the leadership of ZANU-PF. Against odds, he organised a vibrant education for over 12, 000 Zimbabwean youth who were too young to join the armed fighters.
He was the first Minister of Education and Culture at Zimbabwe’s Independence in 1980 and during his long tenure (nine years) from 1980 to 1989 developed one of the best systems of education in Africa.
Modupe (Mo) Adefeso-Olateju, the Managing Director of The Education Partnership Centre (TEP Centre) and a policy expert specialising in public-private partnerships in education sat down with Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka.
They discussed the open letter which she sent to her son’s school as a response to the school’s announcement of starting online classes for the new terms. In the letter, Dr Mo proffers four recommendations to consider as the school transition to online learning due to the lockdown in Nigeria.
In this episode, George Werner who served in the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration as Director-General of the Civil Service and Minister of Education talks about the Partnership School of Liberia, a strategy he initiated to provide effective education for Liberian children. We also discussed other key policies he initiated and insights for education ministers working to transform the education sector.
Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen, the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon and ECOWAS sat down with Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka. We discussed the Finnish Education Evolution, the roles he played in education technology when he was the head of the research unit for Educational Technology at the University of Oulu; the lessons developing nations can learn from the Finnish Education evolution.
Mary Burns, is the senior technology and development expert at Education Development Center. She has over two decades of experience in education as a specialist in teacher professional development, online learning, instruction, curriculum development, and educational technology.
We discussed the findings from the MasterCard foundation research which she led with Mohammad from the University of Mauritius that focused on the policy environment for ICTs in sub-Saharan Africa, their successes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Over the past fifteen years, Chris has guided the development of African Leadership Academy, which he co-founded with Stanford MBA classmate Fred Swaniker in 2004. African Leadership Academy seeks to transform Africa by identifying, developing, and connecting the continent’s future leaders.
I sat down with James Tooley, professor of education entrepreneurship and policy at the University of Buckingham, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Omega Schools. We had an insightful conversation on low-cost private schools; exploring the current design, methodology, results and policy recommendation for low-cost private schools.
Season I
Season I
Heather Beem, the CEO and founder of Practical Education Network (PEN) sat down with Ugochukwu Chukwujiaka to discuss STEM teacher training and how PEN is changing the narrative of teacher training programs in STEM.
Folawe Omikunle, CEO Teach for Nigeria sat down with us to discuss how to develop teachers and leaders or what she calls teacher-leaders using the Teach for Nigeria case study.
Looking at the learning journey of Adam Lupu, we pick nuggets to help guide our own learnings and life long learners.
Michael Horn, Head of Strategy at the Entangled Group, Co-founder of the Clay Christensen Institute and Co-author of the book, Choosing College. We had a chat with Michael on what disruption in higher education mean for Developing Nations.
Listen to my conversation with Henry Anumudu where we discuss his experience at the Teach for Nigeria program. We talked about who is a teacher and the role of a teacher. We discussed some ideas on key areas of focus in teacher training to improve teaching outcomes in Nigeria public schools.
In this interview with Lawyer Kofi Abotsi, we explore the elements of modern law education in a country like Ghana. We discuss the challenges, strategies and solution Lawyer Kofi Abotsi introduced in his time as the dean of law at GIMPA.
Listen to my conversation with Kelly Cassaro, the Chief Learning Officer of Generation: You Employed. We discussed the Generations program, methodology, curriculum design which can be adopted in different contexts and a range of other interesting topics.
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