Fellowship Program seeks to empower disadvantaged groups with EdTech, explore the role of AI and digital strategy, policy, and governance, and use user-centered design to create equitable solutions for education system challenges while developing leadership skills.
Twenty-five African education technology leaders will be heading for the seven-month HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship, which aims to equip them with the skills and knowledge to lead edtech transformations in their respective educational systems. The program will take place at Cambridge this September.
The first cohort of edtech fellows is focused on boosting the quality and equity of learning in sub-Saharan Africa through digital transformation. The program seeks to equip young people with career-ready skills, create more inclusive and prosperous societies, and leverage technology for improved learning outcomes.
Cambridge University and HP selected the group for their HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship from 400 applications around the world which include government officials working in education, as well as leaders from private and not-for-profit EdTech organizations.
The HP Cambridge Fellowship Program seeks to empower disadvantaged groups with EdTech, explore the role of AI and digital strategy, policy, and governance, and use user-centered design to create equitable solutions for education system challenges while developing leadership skills.
Twelve countries in Africa, including Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia have joined forces to improve learning for over 120 million children with the help of the fellowship program that brings together senior government officials responsible for national digital education initiatives.
Beginning online next week, the program, which culminates in a residential course at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge in September 2023, features one-on-one coaching over seven months.
Cambridge Partnership for Education Managing Director Jane Mann said the first EdTech fellows have a “huge remit and huge strengths” to turn policy into action with support from each other, tutors, and coaches. The goal is to create healthier EdTech ecosystems that can promote grassroots innovations, evaluate them effectively and scale them up to address learning crises now and build resilience in education systems for the future.
In 2022, Cambridge Partnership for Education and HP developed the first EdTech fellowship program at the AfricanBrains Summit in Lusaka, Zambia. Led by Julia Citron of Cambridge Partnership for Education’s head of education technology solutions, the program is backed by Hughes Hall’s Digital Education Futures Initiative and OpenDevEd’s
