Nicole Goldstein
Education Advisor, DFID Ghana
I am an education advisor in DFID Ghana. I manage a range of different projects, from providing basic education to out-of-school children to helping girls complete secondary school as well as increasing the quality of teaching and learning. I previously worked at the World Bank, where I researched which policies work best to improve teachers' performance. Follow me on Twitter @NicoleGhana.
Ghanaian families pay for a private education
Posted 21 May 2013
Despite the rise in school attendance in Ghana, around 440,000 kids are still out-of-school (61 million globally). The United Nations estimates it would cost $16 billion a year to get these out-of-school kids into class by 2015 to reach the Millennium Development Goal 2. Here in Ghana, while the government is expanding access, some parents [...]
