sQuid has launched its digital Attendance Monitoring programme in Northern Nigeria, working closely with Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and with the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB’s) in Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Kaduna.

sQuid has commenced field testing of its R.E.A.L online literacy assessment tool. Co-developed by sQuid in partnership with StoryWorld, a US literacy software specialist, R.E.A.L is an AI-driven early literacy diagnostic tool, closely following the widely used EGRA (Early Grade Reading Assessment), assessing key literacy predictors in real time: Listening Comprehension, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Reading Fluency, and Comprehension.

We are proud to introduce you to R.E.A.L - Real-time Early Assessment of Literacy is designed to help close literacy gaps in children by way of a digital assessment, based on the E.G.R.A (Early Grade Reading Assessment) used in Kenya. The key difference here is that this is an aural-oral assessment is completed digitally using a tablet instead of traditional written test.

Once again sQuid has been attending the mEducation Symposium in Arlington, Virginia. An opportunity to look at how technology is rising to the education challenge in developing countries and to share views and experiences. With the emphasis this year being on STEM, the mEducation team is hosting the first ever global STEM education event.

As we prepare to present at the mEducation Alliance Symposium in Washington D.C. next week, we want to hear your thoughts on how to improve the delivery of digital literacy to children in marginalised settings.

We are excited to once again be asked to contribute at the upcoming mEducation Alliance Symposium in Washington, D.C.

Three months ago we were privileged to attend the Transforming Education Pre Summit in Paris; a prelude to last weeks big event in New York. We were excited and honoured to share thinking with so many like-minded individuals – all unified by a passion to ensure that every child around the globe has access to…

Education is a basic human right recognized globally and documented in many education policies, even among sub-Saharan African countries, Zambia inclusive. Education must therefore be available to all people to enable them explore their maximum potential.

In an interview with Solwezi Today, sQuid CEO Adam Smith discusses the importance of innovating and delivering digital tools to rural parts of Zambia, ensuring that both formal education and digital learning is accessible to all children.

We are honored to be attending the opening of the Transforming Education Pre Summit in Paris today and support initiatives which will help to transform education.

Unicef’s recent Policy Brief raised further awareness on the necessity and cost of providing digital education for all children. As well as quantifying the costs associated with electricity, internet access and devices, this thought-provoking paper identifies the importance of…

We are delighted to be invited to present the findings from our recently released white paper titled ‘Driving Literacy and Digital Literacy – Lessons from iMlango in Kenya’ at the 2021 mEducation Alliance Symposium.

This week UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta co-hosted the Global Education Summit in London. The Summit’s aim was to raise funds for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE)

Coronavirus has worsened the global education crisis, with 1.3 billion children – including 650 million girls – out of education at the peak of school closures. Experts warn that many children will never return, particularly as countries experience an economic contraction in the wake of the pandemic.

Projects Director and Board representative attend two-day forum on boosting Nigeria’s digital future. Senator Abubakar Sadiq Yaradua and Mr Umar Iro, UBEC Board representative and Projects Director respectively, visited the headquarters of sQuidcard Ltd for cutting-edge conversations focussed on how digital technology will be able to transform Nigerian Basic Education.

As constituency MP for Esher and Walton, Dominic Raab visited sQuid, a technology company that is revolutionising education halfway round the world. sQuid – the British company based in Thames Ditton that created smartcard and digital wallet technologies used in school payment systems across the United Kingdom, and provides safe cashless payments on buses for those without bankcards – showed off to Mr Raab its projects in Kenya, Somalia and now Nigeria.

All around the world, children's minds are going to waste. As covid-19 surged in early April, more than 90% of pupils were shut out of school. Since then the number has fallen by one-third, as many classrooms in Europe and East Asia have reopened. But elsewhere progress is slow.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world, quickly resulting in school closures in Kenya, we adapted the iMlango learning platform to ensure the continuation of education whilst students are at home.