Education and Scholarships

Meaningful citizenship and democratic practice cannot thrive without strong public schools and higher educational institutions that are accessible and equitable in providing challenging educational opportunities. The Ihonvbere Foundation supports the right of every young Nigerian to have access to educational institutions at all level.

To achieve this goal, Professor Ihonvbere believes that scholarship in key fields remains central to advancing public understanding, promoting civic dialogue and informing policy debates about complex social and cultural questions. The Foundation supports interdisciplinary scholarship in the social sciences and humanities on the premise that complex problems are best approached from multiple perspectives, including a focus on gender, race, ethnicity, identity, religion and culture. Providing scholarships to deserving young men and women enables the building of knowledge that deepens understanding of diversity and helps inform civic discourse in a continually diversifying nation and world.

Several key strategies inform our focus on the granting of scholarships:

    * Building and sharing knowledge about educational policies and practices that promote high-quality education for all students, with particular emphasis on the experience of marginalized groups in primary, secondary and higher education
    * Fostering community engagement and participation that promote improved and more equitable educational policies and practices
    * Strengthening the quality of teaching and learning within school systems, particularly for underserved groups, through the development of innovative models
    * Funding scholarship that can inform the public discourse about issues of identity, difference and equity in globalizing societies
    * Funding fellowship programs for individuals, model programs at institutions and research to inform the policy discourse