By Nicholas Waitathu
Kenya education sector stakeholders are among over 1000 leaders of the world’s best schools, policymakers, and tech companies expected to attend the World Schools Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE mid this month to deliberate challenges facing global education sector.
The summit to be held on November 15-16, 2025 at Yasmina British Academy is expected to address and offer solutions to bottlenecks hindering growth of the sector and to large extent the impact of the same to the economic development.
The Director of Girl Capital – Africa at Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Eunice Ogolo in a statement said, “To transform the lives of children and adolescents in Kenya and across Africa, we need bold ideas that will enable children not simply to survive, but to thrive in a rapidly changing world. That’s why we focus on systemic change, funding programmes that solve problems many might consider intractable.”
To be hosted by T4 Education, Aldar Education, the Emirates Foundation and supported by Children’s CIFF, the conference is projected to shed more light how the education sector can survive and thrive in the midst of emerging shocks like climate change.
Ogolo said the delegates in the summit will be expected to offer ideas on how to tackle greatest challenges, like low funding, linking the sector with labour market, insecurity and how to align global education sector with latest technology.
She added, “And that’s why we’re partnering on the World Schools Summit – bringing together leaders from Africa and across the planet to tackle some of the greatest challenges in education and, in turn, make a difference to the lives of children worldwide.”
The Founder of T4 Education and the World Schools Summit Vikas Pota observed that with quarter of the century already gone, the world is at crossroads, thus requiring actors to take urgent action to halt runaway climate change, adapt as AI revolutionizes our economies. And promote peace in the face of destructive conflicts, and tackle the most enduring inequalities.
“A better world is possible, but only if leaders from across the planet, governments to businesses, NGOs, academia and tech, recognise that at the heart of all these crucial questions lies education. I am proud to be bringing these leaders together at the World Schools Summit, and I invite participants from Kenya and around the world to join us,” said Pota.
Microsoft Elevate Director Caroline Mutepfa, said, “At the World Schools Summit, I look forward to sharing Microsoft’s vision for empowering educators and students through AI-driven tools, personalized learning, and skill-based pathways that build confidence and career readiness.