Figure 3.3: 2019 Teacher satisfaction statistics
Section 4: Feasibility of Delivering at the Scale and Speed Required In reviewing each of the education system transformations they have been engaged on, the evidence demonstrates that Bridge can deliver at scale and pace time and again. The case of EdoBEST is a good example illustrating Bridge’s capability to deliver results in an extremely efficient and rapid manner. We have not come across another provider of system-wide transformation that has demonstrated these results on this large a scale and at this kind of speed of rollout.
4.1 - Bridge Track Record in Delivering at Scale and Pace Since their inception, Bridge has helped educate over 750,000 students, supported 1,414 schools in 55 different provinces across 6 countries over a 10-year time frame. On average projects were rolled out over a 6-month period, achieving results within 1-2 years. They have worked closely with governments to improve and create powerful public-school systems by delivering at pace and to a high level. The projects in Liberia, China and especially Nigeria demonstrate how Bridge’s educational programmes can generate large learning gains for teachers and transform existing government school systems which highly benefit students, administrators and parents Initial results In China demonstrate teachers are benefiting from weekly training in English and are helping children to spend four times more time speaking English and learning twice as many words per week compared to when the programme began. Measurement and evaluation studies were also conducted in Nigeria, and yielded positive results: •
Teachers were 40% more likely to be teaching a full day (as defined by a 1:45pm end)
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In the first 2.5 months of the programme, teachers taught the equivalent of 70% of an entire year worth of instruction in English and 65% in Maths.
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Teachers guided students through independent practice 50% more than usual and gave 200% more feedback on the students’ work
Figure 4.1 summarises the scale of delivery broken down by country Country
# of Students Enrolled
# of Schools Supported
445,000 283,000 23,000 16,000 900
360 1,053 68 18 7
Kenya & Uganda Nigeria Liberia China India
# of Provinces 4 3 10 1 1
4.2 – EdoBEST roll-out plan A review of case studies demonstrates that Bridge has developed their approach, adapting their methodology based on feedback from the governments and teachers they work with and based on the insight they gain from the wealth of data they collect and analyse in order to really focus on take-up and improvement at scale and pace. In just over a year, Bridge through EdoBEST have increased the number of students exposed to the programme by more than 500%, 9000 teachers have been trained and the number of schools implementing EdoBEST has quadrupled. Figure 4.2: Rollout of EdoBEST Rollout of EdoBEST Dates
Jan-18
# Students # Teachers # Schools
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Contract Signed
Apr-18
Sep-18
Jan-19
Apr-19
42,605
150,000
150,000
267,000
1,500
7000
7000
9,000
250
600
600
1,000
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