The Executive Certificate in Innovative Financing for Education equips education and finance professionals with skills to understand, analyse, evaluate, and design innovative financing approaches to realise SDG 4 and SDG 17 in domestic and international education financing (IFE). Through real-life case studies, the course will cover a broad range of innovative financing mechanisms introduced within the education sector to critically analyse the relevance, applicability, adaptability, efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness of financing models for reaching the targets of SDG 4. Additionally, with comprehensive advisement from the instructors, students will engage in a final project designing an innovative financing approach to solving an education challenge identified in a specific context.
OBJECTIVES
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Learn how to assess key educational issues at the regional/national level and explore alternative solutions
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Develop critical reading and synthesis skills and apply them to available evidence on innovative finance in education
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Be able to formulate problems and explore design of potentially relevant innovative finance solutions
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Build measurement and evaluation skills relevant to innovative finance mechanisms
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Acquire skills in engaging with stakeholders and negotiations