Small Grants Programme
Theirworld’s Small Grants Programme gives grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities and non-profits helping disadvantaged and overlooked young people in the UK and around the world.
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Mastering macro- and micro-economic concepts? Analysing a country’s economic growth or building a model for its future potential? Use this page to gain further understanding of all of the ways in which education unlocks economic opportunity and prosperity at all levels.
Investing in education creates a talented workforce, with the skills and innovation needed to address pressing challenges, reducing poverty, inequality, and improving social mobility. Educated individuals are more empowered to make sound economic choices for themselves and their families, building human capital and promoting economic growth at local, regional, and global levels — the foundation to a peaceful, productive society.
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Education, especially for girls, is the best investment we can make for sustainable development. Gender equality is a human right and it is also smart economics. It is therefore crucial that we continue our efforts to secure education for all in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Erna Solberg, Former Prime Minister of Norway
Education and training are the keys to unlock opportunities for women and men to gain employment, launch businesses and create better lives for themselves and their families. As we work to build a better and more resilient future after the Covid-19 pandemic, we must ensure quality education systems that are accessible to all.
Guy Ryder, ILO Director General
Safeguarding our post-pandemic future means safeguarding our human capital. More than a billion learners across the world have been affected by the virus-related disruption to education. That is why we need more investment—not just spending more on schools and distance-learning capacity, but also improving the quality of education and the access to life-long learning and re-skilling. These efforts can pay large dividends in terms of growth, productivity, and living standards. We can build a more resilient world by harnessing the vast potential that education provides for people to learn, grow, and transform their lives.
Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF
Searching for more in-depth reporting or quick refreshers on the relationship between education and health? Check out Theirworld’s groundbreaking reports and explainers that examine the issue in further detail.
Prefer an audio medium to better understand the connection between education and economics? Listen to Theirworld’s Better Angels podcasts, featuring stories from globally renowned campaigners, Nobel Prize winners, celebrities, politicians and remarkable young people who are experts in the field.
In this Better Angels interview special guest host Tom Fletcher speaks to former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy for Education Gordon Brown and Director of the Education Commission Liesbet Steer about the new International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd).
In this episode, you will hear from Christos Stylianides, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Jean-Louis De Brouwer, Director of Operations in the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department and Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – a global fund to transform the delivery of education in emergencies.
Hear from Maysa Jalbout, Senior Advisor on Education in Emergencies for Theirworld, about her work supporting and financing refugee education in Greece. Maysa is joined by Elias Bou Saab, former Lebanese Minister of Education, who collaborated with Theirworld on the double shift school system in Lebanon, which has helped provide education for more than 300,000 refugee children.
How do you actually make big change happen? Sarah Brown explores all of the elements involved in getting hundreds of thousands of Syrian children back in school in learning through interviews with Elias Bou Saab, former Minister of Education in Lebanon, Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Julia Gillard, former Australian Prime Minister, now Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, Dr Justin van Fleet, Director of the Commission for Financing Education Opportunity and chief adviser for Theirworld.
Theirworld’s commitment to education spans sectors and subjects. See what we are working on at the intersection of education and economics:
Theirworld’s Small Grants Programme gives grants of up to £10,000 to registered charities and non-profits helping disadvantaged and overlooked young people in the UK and around the world.
Theirworld partnered with Scotland’s Edinburgh Business School to offer 20 fully-funded Master of Business Administration (MBA) scholarships to refugees living in Lebanon and vulnerable Lebanese citizens. Students will gain a range of core business skills and one of the UK’s most prestigious management qualifications
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