The Business of Education in Africa report showed that 21% of children in African countries were being educated in the private sector. By 2022, this percentage is expected to rise to one in four children. Over the next few years, $16 – $18 billion are needed in investment in the private education sector.

African education system is on the whole centralized in nature and characterized by weak management, planning, evaluation, and incentive structures. Most countries do not have reliable information system to facilitate planning, monitoring, evaluation, policy formulation and resource allocation. More seriously, the system is not able to ensure proper use of funds often due to poor systems and weak knowledge in modern management practices. The highly centralized nature of education delivery in most African countries precludes possibilities of local participation which could resolve some of the issues in resource mobilization, management, accountability, and sustainability of the education system. Most countries have not been able to meaningfully operationalize decentralization due to the problems involved in local capacity development and devolution of power and resources. But in the absence of proper budget and expenditure tracking systems, decentralization has in some cases been rendered ineffective either because of limited financial management capacity or it has simply meant the decentralization of corruption to the local level.

World over education is undergoing a silent revolution; very soon the disruption shall reach epic levels and it will explode. The digital revolution is not sparing schools of any type! Therefore, for any learning institution to survive this explosion, they will need very strong management/governance structures and systems that require the application of some of the best tools and approaches in modern management. Those who fail to adopt will be swept by the wave.

We help schools workout their structures, systems and models in order to adopt to the new modern management requirements. These may include adoption of new MIS, review of the Governance structures, adoption of modern performance management systems and approaches, institution of e-learning & e-management platforms, and retooling of staff for the new digital era.