Join us on Friday, June 26 at 11 AM as Jaslika Associate Wangui Ng’ang’a talks with Professor Francisco Januario about Girls Education Research in Mozambique. This event will be streamed live on the Jaslika Consulting Facebook page. Click here to set your reminder.

Professor Francisco Januário is a lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University (Maputo) and a consultant with over 25 years of experience in areas of education and training, assessment, gender issues, project evaluation and policy formulation. He has worked and continues to work on educational projects in primary, secondary and higher education. Over the years, he has coordinated a variety of research projects, and has participated in others on mathematics and science teaching and learning, violence against girls, and teacher absenteeism in primary schools all of which were commissioned by international agencies in Mozambique such as Actionaid, Plan International, World Bank Mozambique, and Embassy of Finland. He has to his credit a number of research papers and reports. On the editorial boards of several journals and conferences in Mozambique he is in demand as a peer reviewer. Januario is the founding chair and current Scientific Director of the Mozambican Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.

Francisco is the coordinator of a 5-year training project on student supervision for higher education staff, which is part of a 5-year cooperation programme between the Eduardo Mondlane University and several Swedish universities. He has international experience as a visiting professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Brazil).

Professor Januário holds a PhD in Assessment and Quality Assurance for Education and Training from the University of Pretoria, South Africa and a Master in Educational Sciences from the Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden.