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Sub-Saharan Africa has the fastest growing and youngest population in the world, with around 1 billion children needing to be educated in the coming three decades. However there are challenges of access, quality and relevance within the education sector

Whether or not we live in Africa, all of our futures will be affected by the success or failure of education on the continent.

Since 2000, millions of African children have benefited from better access to education but Africa still has 30 million children out of school. And for those in school, learning is limited because teaching can be poor. There is an enormous challenge here and without good education, Africa’s economies and her people will continue to struggle to compete in a globalizing world.

The private sector is critical in meeting this challenge.
One in five children in Africa, or 41 million children, are already enrolled in private schools
Many private schools serve parts of the population that cannot afford much
In the next five years, an additional 25 million children are expected to join private institutions, so that one in four children, from all sorts of backgrounds, will be enrolled in private schools by 2021

This creates an enormous opportunity for investors: $16-18 billion over the next five years.

A vibrant private sector, particularly when operating in an engaged, flexible, and concordant relationship with government, can help drive access, quality, relevance, and innovation.

And it also creates an equally important opportunity for governments to harness the skills and resources of the private sector to improve access to and quality of education in their countries through policy and regulation that supports such collaborations.

The Business of Education in Africa report aims to shine a light on the opportunities for investors and policymakers alike – in a detailed, actionable way.

The Opportunity

Five-year investment opportunity in private education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Size of Opportunity by Segment for Institutional Investors

The Roles of Governments in Private Education

The roles of governments in private education
Five-year investment opportunity in private education in Sub-Saharan Africa
The four forces forces shaping education
Opportunity scale by segment, organized education sector

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South Africa 2017 – Press Conference: Africa has a skills shortage. How do we fix it?

The people behind this project

Authors

Caerus Capital

Caerus Capital LLC is an investment
and advisory firm focused on healthcare and education in emerging markets. Scott Featherston and David Ferreira are partners in Caerus Capital and have a long history of involvement in the education sector. Scott’s experience includes having headed up the IFC’s health and education investing in Africa and he is currently a non-executive director of the Luminus Group in Jordan and George Health Enterprises in Australia. David was a partner in a South African private equity firm that invested in health and education businesses, was for 10 years a non-executive director of listed education company ADvTECH, and is currently an advisor to the IFC on investments in health and education.
www.caeruscapital.co

With Support From

Oxford Analytica

Oxford Analytica is a global analysis and advisory firm which draws on a worldwide network of experts to advise its clients on their strategy and performance. Oxford Analytica’s insights and judgments on global issues enable its clients to succeed in complex markets where the nexus of politics and economics, state, and business is critical. The firm monitors developments across geographies and sectors to help clients identify and leverage political risks and opportunities, provide evidence-based thought leadership,
and enable best practices in the relationship between business and society.
www.oxan.com

Parthenon EY

Parthenon-EY is a strategy consultancy, committed to bringing unconventional yet pragmatic thinking together with our clients’ smarts to deliver actionable strategies for real impact in today’s complex business landscape. The Parthenon-EY Education practice — the first of its kind across management consulting firms — has an explicit mission and vision to be the leading strategy advisor to the global education industry. To achieve this, we invest significantly in dedicated management and team resources so that our global experience extends across public sector and not-for-profit education providers, foundations, for-profit companies and service providers, and investors. Parthenon-EY has delivered more than 1,000 education sector engagements across over 95 countries in the last 10 years. Parthenon-EY is a member of the global network of EY Firms.
www.parthenon.ey.com

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