In September 2022 the United Nations organised the first-ever high-level Transforming Education Summit, inviting stakeholders to put forward commitments and tackle the challenges we face. Once again we heard how staggering the needs are: in lower-income countries, 25% of young people and just over 55% of adults are still illiterate, while 250 million children remain out of primary school.
The World Bank’s “State of Global Learning Poverty” report notes that disruptions such as the Covid-19 epidemic, the war in Ukraine and the Taliban’s ban on secondary education for girls in Afghanistan have
