Latest Blogs & Impact Stories
“This is physics. How did you end up here?”
This International Women’s Day, Head Education Specialist for East Africa, Robinah Zawedde, reminds us how things are getting better for women and girls, but the fight still continues.
Read MoreUsing Credit Algorithms to Expand Access to Education Finance
Opportunity EduFinance’s mission to get more children into better quality schools uses the principles of ‘financial inclusion’ to drive our work. Financial inclusion is simply defined as ‘the availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services.’ Yet the challenges to achieving financial inclusion are wide ranging and require us to consider new innovations to change the status quo. We see this broad reach in the Sustainable Development Goals, where ‘financial inclusion’…
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Learning Journey Blog Series: Education Innovations
This is the first installation of the 'Learning Journey' blog series co-authored by Opportunity EduFinance Instill Education, and Chalkboard Education. This series will share insights from several pilot projects testing education innovations in the affordable private school sector in sub-Saharan Africa. This series examines the evolution, learning, adaptation, and failures as we endeavour to build sector knowledge around what works and what doesn’t when developing the right digital foundations…
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Renée McAlpin: Why I’m taking on the global education crisis
Opportunity EduFinance is made of a dedicated global team with diverse experience and expertise. Our team is essential to our collective mission to get more children into better quality schools. We want to share their passion and experience, and how this motivates their day-to-day work. This week we hear from EduQuality Manager, Renée McAlpin, about her education and professional journey, navigating the education sector to find where she has the greatest value-add to one of the most complex global…
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Financial Inclusion for School Leaders
Opportunity EduFinance hosted a webinar as part of Financial Inclusion Week 2019 entitled "The potential of a $24 billion market to accelerate sustainable community development.” During the hour, EduFinance Director of Operations, Scott Sheridan, presented on findings that show school entrepreneurs significantly contribute to community development when given access to financing, as well as on the potential global demand for education loan products. We then turned to our three panelists representing…
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Tackling the education crisis together: Partner Perspective from Kenya
With 263 million children out of school globally, an estimated 800 schools per day would need to be built for the next five years to meet the minimum demand for seats. In many lower and middle-income countries (LMICs), the supply gaps in capacity-constrained public education systems are being filled by local low-fee – ‘affordable’ – private schools that are building new classrooms and adding more seats at a significant rate. These schools often end up costing similar amounts to public schools…
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The Power of Portfolio Analysis: Partner Perspective from Musoni Bank
Portfolio Analysis is a key function the Opportunity EduFinance Technical Assistance Facility (ETAF) performs to provide in-depth assessments of our financial partners’ education loan portfolios. Effective and timely analyses (known as “Edpacks”) empower our partners to build and grow productive, high-quality and sustainable education finance portfolios through improved management and risk mitigation. Our ultimate aim, through providing better financial products and services for schools and…
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Andrew McCusker: From Goldman Sachs to EduFinance
I was a lucky kid. I grew up in Geelong, a thriving port city just outside Melbourne, Australia, with a loving family and plenty of opportunities around me. I also went to a great school despite not really appreciating this at the time...
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EdTech: Improving Efficiency and Maintaining Quality at Scale
The EduQuality team at Opportunity International EduFinance partnered with Chalkboard Education to launch a digital Learning Management System to deliver offline educational content to schools in Kumasi, Ghana. The outcomes of the pilot will have implications for transforming EduQuality’s global service delivery model and its potential to meet the needs of the affordable private school sector at scale.
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The Importance of Strategic Tech Upgrades for EduFinance Program Impact
The EduFinance Data and Business Intelligence team give key insights into how our data technology tools have evolved over time and where we are today.
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