STEM education and inequality in Africa
This policy brief aims to assess how inequalities in the education sector undermine Africa’s capacity to leverage the potential of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education for sustainable development. It assesses structural problems that limit the impact of education policies and analyses inequality from a triple perspective: income, geographic location (urban/rural divide) and gender. It highlights that for STEM education to become a more significant driver for Africa’s global economic competitiveness, African countries need to address the existing inequalities embedded in the education sector and that undermine the strengthening of the continent's human capital. It proposes recommendations on how to advance and strengthen the implementation of STEM education in Africa by addressing these inequalities.
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