Pauline Wanja is Future First Kenya Programme and Advocacy Manager. It is a sunny Saturday and this weekend’s alumni events takes me to a school nestled in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi. The school is one of the oldest national public girls school in the country, the 100 year old buildings make for a spectacular […]
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Emily Laurie, Managing Director of Future First Global, blogs on what university alumni networks have in common with alumni networks for secondary schools. I was lucky to do an MSc at a brilliant university – the London School of Economics – and want to stay connected to what is such a great establishment. But in reality when I
In the Arab region youth unemployment currently stands at 29%. There is an urgent need to create jobs for young people and provide them with the skills, guidance, confidence, empowerment and education to prepare them for the job market. Finding solutions to this is the focus of the Arab Youth Employment Forum taking place this
We talked to Alex Beard, Director of Systems Change at Teach for All, about his reflections on the challenges that young people face as they are leaving school and preparing to enter the world of work. How did you get involved in youth issues? After university, I was working as consultant in the UK and
TumuTumu public High School for girls is a couple of hours outside Nairobi, in Kenya. Almost 900 students at the school came together on 8 March for an all day careers event to hear from former students of their school about their careers and to discuss future options, life skills and more. The event, led by the
80,000 young people in Kenya to access role models and support for school-to-work transition Nairobi, Kenya 18 March 2015 – Future First Global and ‘I Choose Life – Africa’ (ICL) launched an exciting new partnership today which will provide access to role models and support in the transition from school into jobs, for some 80,000 young Kenyans over the
Nairobi, Kenya 5 March 2015 – A new report launched today by Future First Global shows the transformative impact alumni are having in the employment potential for secondary school students in Nairobi. The report ‘An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes’ examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in
Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 to 15 years old are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children, released today during the Education
Future First Global is launching a global data set today on the school-to-work transition. The data set, available online here, looks at the career aspirations, employability and the school-to-work transition for young people around the globe. The data is a result of a global research study carried out by Future First and Ipsos MORI. The research
Emily Laurie, Managing Director of Future First Global, blogs on the importance of data in delivering evidence-based development. I have sat in enough meetings with communications colleagues to know ‘data isn’t sexy’. It just isn’t. Human rights and development is about people which is why story telling is so important but I am not sure my writing