Globally, and especially in Africa, millions cannot fulfil their aspirations or reach their potential as they are unable to access quality education, skills and training. Through WorldClass, Deloitte supports the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, namely: Goal 4 (Quality Education) Goal 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), and Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities). Our goal is to impact 20 million lives in Africa by leveraging our capabilities and resources, to empower Africans - one future at a time.
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WorldClass in Africa focuses on three key pillars:
Education
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Agriculture
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WorldClass Education Challenge
As part of Deloitte’s WorldClass ambition, we launched a joint initiative with the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Uplink WorldClass Education Challenge. The initiative invited educators, entrepreneurs, and innovators to submit solutions that would support access to quality education through investing in teachers, striving for equitable access to education and investing in 4IR focused skills.
The cohort selected receives:
- Up to US$1 million worth of professional services on a pro bono basis from Deloitte
- Financial grants
- A dedicated relationship manager to support the organisation’s collaboration with Deloitte
- Participation in selected World Economic Forum and Deloitte events, projects and communities
Developed with the needs of African teachers in mind, Learnable is an augmented teaching assistant that allows teachers to compose and distribute dynamic, interactive lessons via a dedicated mobile app and WhatsApp. Lessons can be saved offline, so that students do not need constant internet access.
Nomad Education is a free mobile app which offers 350 academic certificates that helps more than 1 million francophone children every year to succeed in their studies, whatever their social, geographic or academic background.
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The Pan-African Robotics Competition (PARC) is the largest robotics competition in Africa and has educated more than a 1000 African youth in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM), while also offering a Virtual Learning Platform (VLP) to enable the African youth to virtually learn to code, design and build their own robots. It also integrates a feature for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
A lack of quality STEM education directly impacts productivity and economic development in Nigeria. Millions of students have no access to traditional laboratories, which are expensive to build and maintain. StanLab is a cloud-based, 3D virtual laboratory platform, providing near real-life laboratory experience for students without access to physical laboratories.
UCT Online High School's mission is to turn physical limitations into digital opportunities for Africa’s children to access aspirational, quality secondary school education. Its purpose-built online school and free online curriculum pave the way for high quality, online and blended learning to be delivered at scale, and stimulate digital transformation of the education systems on the continent.
It’s Learnable
Developed with the needs of African teachers in mind, Learnable is an augmented teaching assistant that allows teachers to compose and distribute dynamic, interactive lessons via a dedicated mobile app and WhatsApp. Lessons can be saved offline, so that students do not need constant internet access.
Nomad Education
Nomad Education is a free mobile app which offers 350 academic certificates that helps more than 1 million francophone children every year to succeed in their studies, whatever their social, geographic or academic background.
Disclaimer
This innovator will be serviced by Deloitte Central Europe (DCE)
Pan-African Robotics Competition
The Pan-African Robotics Competition (PARC) is the largest robotics competition in Africa and has educated more than a 1000 African youth in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM), while also offering a Virtual Learning Platform (VLP) to enable the African youth to virtually learn to code, design and build their own robots. It also integrates a feature for collaboration and knowledge exchange.
StanLab
A lack of quality STEM education directly impacts productivity and economic development in Nigeria. Millions of students have no access to traditional laboratories, which are expensive to build and maintain. StanLab is a cloud-based, 3D virtual laboratory platform, providing near real-life laboratory experience for students without access to physical laboratories.
UCT Online High School
UCT Online High School's mission is to turn physical limitations into digital opportunities for Africa’s children to access aspirational, quality secondary school education. Its purpose-built online school and free online curriculum pave the way for high quality, online and blended learning to be delivered at scale, and stimulate digital transformation of the education systems on the continent.
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Democratising education across the continent through the following ways:
- Empowering principals and school governing bodies with governance and management skills necessary to effectively run their schools and
- Leveraging our networks such as the World Economic Forum and utilising our core capabilities to build platforms that can effectively broadcast quality teaching and tutoring through training educators and providing an accessible educating platform.
Partnering with existing initiatives to:
- Assist in the advancement of management skills relevant for successful business management
- Use the Deloitte networks and platforms to provide marketplace opportunities
- Provide opportunities to showcase these entrepreneurs for relevant requirements through introductions to our networks i.e. Investors, clients and partners
Opportunities we can offer our clients:
- Assist small-scale farmers towards production growth while developing a young group of Agripreneurs in the African continent
- Support the creation of innovative methods through advance technologies and farming skills and
- Developing a model to guide easier access to continental and international markets