Programmes

Building new programmes with governments
and partner organisations

The Varkey Foundation collaborates with governments and organizations worldwide to implement programs that enhance educational standards and teacher effectiveness. These initiatives include teacher training, education technology, girls' education, and refugee education. By utilizing satellite technology, distance learning, and interactive methods, the foundation aims to reach underserved and remote communities, ensuring quality education for all. To date, their efforts have impacted over 46,000 teachers and 1.6 million children globally, promoting better learning outcomes and increased access to education.

Every child deserves a good teacher. We support teachers around the world to drive up educational standards and improve access learning for students, no matter their location or circumstances.

Through our programmes we aim to learn from and spread best practice around the globe, from initial teacher training to leadership. We help to reach remote, underprivileged and displaced children, improving access to education for some of the hardest to reach communities.

To date, our programmes have trained
46,000 teachers in 3,000 schools around the world, reaching more than 1.6 million children.

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Leadership & Innovation, Latin America

The Varkey Foundation delivers professional, sustainable and replicable programmes for principals and teachers to become managers of real change within their own institutions and drive up teaching standards through better training. In addition, the programmes develop essential skills to strengthen their pedagogical leadership. Together with these aspects, the programmes promote rethinking schools in a way that meets the social and organisational realities of life in a digital age.

Girls’ Education

Getting – and keeping – girls in education is a major challenge in many parts of the world. Through satellite technology and distance learning we have improved access to basic literacy and numeracy. Our after-school programmes help empower young girls, raising confidence, self-esteem and aspirations.

Working with the Department for International Development’s Girls’ Education Challenge, our MGCubed project has also helped to reduce absenteeism and attainment in core subjects.

Refugee Education

Through our distance learning and teacher training programmes, we bring education to some of the world’s most disadvantaged and remote children.

Working with UNHCR, we have provided nearly 500 hours of tuition to children in refugee camps in East Africa, helping children and their communities better integrate into society and their host countries.

Education Technology

Our programmes build on the latest EdTech to improve and enable learning beyond the traditional classroom.

Through interactive distance learning, delivered by satellite and solar power, we connect with pupils around the world and spread training and knowledge across our projects. We help improve teaching practices, develop subject knowledge and create more engaging and inspiring classrooms.

Programmes

Every child deserves a good teacher. We support teachers around the world to drive up educational standards and improve access learning for students, no matter their location or circumstances.

To date, our programmes have trained 46,000 teachers in 3,000 schools around the world, reaching more than 1.6 million children.

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To date, our programmes have trained
46,000 teachers in 3,000 schools around the world, reaching more than 1.6 million children.