Albion Business School is a not-for-profit enterprise which provides cost effective, high quality, UK university business and entrepreneurship education in developing nations around the globe. Research shows that education is key to reducing poverty, increasing social mobility and developing economic activity within a country. 

Almost 60% of Africa’s 1.3Bn population in 2019 is under the age of 25, making Africa the world’s youngest continent. These 820m young people have limited access to all forms of education, especially quality higher education which can enable sustained economic growth.

“Only 6% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa will enroll for some form of tertiary education.”

Ayodele Odusola, the lead editor of the report and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s chief economist, makes the following point: “Quality education is key to social mobility and can thus help reduce poverty, although it may not necessarily reduce [income] inequality.” Higher-quality education, he says, improves the distribution of skilled workers, and state authorities can use this increased supply to build a fairer society in which all people, rich or poor, have equal opportunities.

As we have already established, the Higher Education sector across Africa lacks resources, trained professionals and the quality processes to scale to these needs. In addition to this, The costs associated with UK based tertiary education for the vast majority of Africans prohibit professional development.