Alumni Toolkit: The Educational Value of Alumni for Public High Schools (2019)
Founding Global Network partner, Future First USA is now known as The Alumni Toolkit by Big Picture Education. This report looks into the effectiveness of alumni on students in public high schools in the USA. Extract During the 2018-19 academic year, UC San Diego’s Center for Research in Educational Equity, Assessment Excellence formative, (CREATE) multi-site and Teaching conducted a study of efforts to increase alumni engagement in San Diego County high schools. This report covers findings from 15 high schools (public and charter) that attempted to use their own high school alumni to provide career and college advising to their …
Nearly 100 schools in Uganda to establish Alumni Networks in partnership with PEDN
Future First Global has launched a partnership with The Private Education Development Network (PEDN) that will see Alumni Networks built at nearly 100 schools across Uganda. PEDN is a non-profit organisation working to empower in and out of school youth with a range of market-led and life skills, such as financial literacy and entrepreneurship. They have a presence in 17 districts in Uganda and work with a network of 300 primary and secondary schools. The new partnership with Future First Global will see Alumni Networks initially established at 92 schools across all 17 districts. With PEDN potentially rolling the project …
Five things we learnt in 2018…and a sneak preview of 2019
By Abi Nokes, CEO of Future First Global It’s a new year and over the holiday period the team and I enjoyed taking the opportunity to reflect on a transformative 2018. In this blog we’ll share with you our five big learnings and what we’re looking forward to in the coming year. In 2018 we worked with eight brilliant partners in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We supported them to build strong networks and alumni communities that will benefit an estimated 120,000 young people over the next two years. By working across so many different contexts, we …
Is Education Enough?: The Wrap-Up
On Thursday 18th October, Future First Global hosted a workshop and networking event titled “Is Education Enough?” at Tribe Kampala co-working space in Uganda. The event brought together over 30 stakeholders working in the Education and Youth sectors and provoked discussion about the many factors, outside of formal education, that contribute to a young person’s ability to achieve their potential. One of the participants was MasterCard Foundation Scholar, Joshua Eyaru, and below he provides his perspective on the session. I have committed myself to working with young people from schools in rural communities. Having gone to a rural school myself, …
Future First Global to host event in Kampala
Future First Global is set to host a workshop and networking event in Kampala, Uganda entitled “Is Education Enough?”. The event will bring together a range of stakeholders working within the Education and Youth sector in Uganda, providing the opportunity for informative discussions and the chance to meet other colleagues in the sector. The workshop will look at some of the “outside-of-the-classroom” factors that affect a young person’s life chances and will last approximately an hour before the informal networking begins. The event will be hosted on Thursday 18th October from 4.15pm at Tribe Kampala, near Acacia Mall, Kampala and will …
Good Start: Busy Launch with HPA
Health Poverty Action, working in partnership with Future First Global, has successfully launched alumni activities at 14 schools across Rwanda. The project has established committees made up of former students in order to tackle absenteeism, lateness, financial disadvantage and other factors holding back students educational progress. Within weeks of the project launch there have already been over 20 village meetings, as well as various mentoring talks, house visits and clubs established. Impressively, financial commitments have already been made to the benefit of over 80 pupils and nearly 20 young people have been encouraged to return to school. In the coming …
Meet The Trustees – and maybe become one?
Connie Howley interned with Future First Global for two weeks under a Teach First Leadership Development programme. As part of her storytelling project, she interviewed three board members about their roles. If you are interested in becoming a board member, we have a vacancy so please apply here. Approaching the end of my Summer Project at Future First Global, I have learnt more about the charity sector in the last two weeks than the previous 22 years! As a participant on Teach First’s Leadership Development Programme, I thought I was knowledgeable when it came to the problems and solutions of …
Job Alert: LEAP Project Manager in Tanzania
Future First Global is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead our team in Dar es Salaam. The role will deliver a portfolio of activities as part of the Lending for Education in Africa Partnership (LEAP) – an exciting initiative being piloted in Tanzania and Kenya for the first time. This is a dynamic and varied role and will involve designing and delivering a comprehensive community building programme, to support academic success and create pathways to employment for the ‘LEAP Fellows’ – selected recipients of the LEAP Programme. The successful candidate will have sole responsibility for the design and …
Alumni Development Is Grassroots Work: Guest Blog from OurSchool Australia
Caroline Milburn, is the Director and Co-founder of OurSchool – a program helping state secondary schools build thriving alumni communities in Austrailia. Here she shares her experience of their two-year pilot program. Here in Australia there’s been a tradition of private secondary schools developing their alumni communities to benefit students. That tradition exists in the university sector too. But there’s been no such tradition in the state school sector. State secondary schools are the only high schools in Australia that are tuition free. They were founded on egalitarian principles, established by the state as secular, free and open to all. It’s …
Time To Scale Up: Success in Rwanda
Following the hugely successful pilot in Rwanda last year, Akazi Kanoze Access is looking to scale up its network-building efforts in the country. The project, delivered in partnership with Future First Global, raised awareness among teachers of the importance of this factor in young people’s development. Both organisations believe that strengthening young people’s networks can help improve their life chances. Akazi Kanoze utilised their existing links in Rwanda, built through their programmes on employability and entrepreneurial skills programmes, to provide access to as many as 46 schools. While Future First Global provided expertise, emphasising the importance of relatability in their …
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