Program / Education
Education
Nigeria faces a vast out-of-school population and uneven learning outcomes; higher education is often disconnected from the country's most urgent needs.
Research on learning and institutions exists across faculties. What is missing are systems that improve how learning is delivered, measured, and supported at scale.
What we support
We support postgraduate projects that can become working systems — tools that turn educational research and institutional data into practical improvements in how learning is delivered, measured, and extended. Projects need identifiable users, a specific system to build, and a deployment path feasible within months. Support covers project development costs, tuition, technical and product direction, and deployment support through the program cycle.
Focus areas
We are particularly interested in projects in these areas, though we will consider any serious proposal with a viable system to build:
- Translating learning science, assessment research, or pedagogical data into usable tools
- Systems that improve how students learn, how performance is measured, or how teaching is delivered
- Institutional tracking and support tools for universities, schools, or programmes
- Tools that extend learning beyond the classroom or reach students with limited access
- Assessment and feedback systems for lecturers and administrators
- Tools deployable within existing institutional environments or through lightweight channels
What a strong project looks like
Strong education projects identify a specific gap — a decision that is being made poorly because the right information is not available, or a process that is failing because no system supports it. The users are specific: students at a particular level, lecturers in a defined context, administrators managing a known institutional problem.
The strongest projects take existing research or institutional data that already exists within a Nigerian university or educational programme and turn it into something that improves a real outcome — rather than requiring new surveys or data collection before any value can be delivered.
Who should apply
Postgraduate students in education, educational psychology, economics of education, curriculum studies, sociology, or related fields. Prior research experience, teaching experience, or demonstrated engagement with Nigerian learning systems and institutional contexts is a strong positive signal.