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REAL: Research for Equitable Access and Learning

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    Mentors for under-privileged girls in Tanzania are challenging harmful gender social norms

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    What does ethical solidarity look like for academic professional bodies in times of unfolding genocide?

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    Sustained purposeful investment key to ‘leaving no girl behind’ in education or beyond

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    Focused interventions for girls with disabilities fuelled ‘life-changing’ impact on aspirations and self-esteem

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    Stalled social skills ruptured learning: Ethiopian schools typify COVID’s aftershock for the world’s poorest children

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    Pre-primary education played ‘protective’ role against COVID learning losses in sub-Saharan Africa

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    Teachers leading global drive to improve girls’ education became frontline workers during COVID-19 closures

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    Raise the floor – impact story of REAL Centre journey to transform education

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Welcome to the REAL Centre

Education is at the heart of social transformation. It is a fundamental human right and has the potential to reduce poverty empower women improve health and drive economic growth.

However in some of the poorest parts of the world many children and young people are deprived of access to good quality education and denied the chance to learn and fulfill their potential.

The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre pioneers research into overcoming barriers to education such as poverty gender ethnicity language and disability and promotes education as an engine for inclusive growth and sustainable development.

Find out more about the REAL Centre and our key principles.