Our education platform

That education matters so much to us should not come as a surprise. After all, PwC, at its core, is a learning-based enterprise. Every year, tens of thousands of PwC people—from campus recruits to experienced hires, to partners both recent and long-term—participate in a variety of internal education programmes aimed at refreshing their technical skills, deepening their professional competence, and broadening their knowledge of particular industries.

Many of our individual member firms have already established an impressive track record in underwriting highly successful educational programmes. While the educational programmes of our individual member firms may differ widely in terms of size and scope, they share some important similarities. Typically, our educational initiatives:
  • Draw on PwC's knowledge of the local community and deep experience in training and educating its own people.

  • Engage our partners and staff as volunteers in order to foster on an individual basis the sense of responsibility PwC demonstrates on a collective basis.

  • Promote the development of young people's business acumen and employability.

  • Target disadvantaged or socially marginalised youth.
As a starting point in PwC’s approach to promoting education is an understanding—codified in many international agreements over the past six decades—that education is not a privilege, but a fundamental human right. And as an unalienable right, access to education must not be revoked—even under extreme circumstances. Indeed, in times of crisis, education can be an important source of physical protection and psychological comfort. During periods of armed conflict, educational can play a particularly vital role in safeguarding children and promoting their well-being. By offering structure and stability, and by disseminating messages of assurance and support, schools can provide children with a safe haven from the violence and desolation that would otherwise surround them.

This understanding of education as a fundamental human right and a life-line for entire communities in times of crisis, has led PwC to undertake an ambitious project in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called, Educating the Children of Darfur. The project’s central purpose is to establish a fully-functioning primary school system that serves thousands of refugee children displaced by fighting in their homeland of Darfur. The school system operates in four UNHCR-run refugee camps in the neighbouring country of Chad.