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MENA Education Sector Must Adopt Ed-Tech Innovations In To Succeed In Changing Landscape
The education sector in the Middle East and North Africa must pay more attention to capital efficiency and innovation rather than rely on incumbent models of learning services in order to keep up with the rest of the world, says a leading education technology expert.
Michael Staton, Partner at Learn Capital, believes the missing piece of the puzzle in the MENA region is early stage capital that supports innovation and is willing to risk failure to create larger success.
Dino Varkey, Group Executive Director and Board Member of GEMS Education, said: “Online education is part and parcel of what we do but I think the future outlook of online education is yet to be determined. Our world is changing fast, making it challenging to forecast the future of this trend with any degree of certainty.
“The perceived challenges of online education might be from the perspective of parents because they are more comfortable with the idea of their children at a school in conventional classrooms and teachers who are physically present."
"I think this perception about the concept of online education will change but predicting further details remains challenging.”
One of the core challenges in the regional education sector is in making investments into private higher education more viable and finding a model which works well for both the educational institute and the financiers.
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