"Educational Strategies for Partnership Relations of the Brics Countries: Potential for Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Growth".

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the educational strategies for partnership relations of the BRICS countries: “potential for sustainable and inclusive economic growth". My paper focuses on Africa and its development. Specifically, what are the potential educational benefits for South Africa (SA) within the context of BRICS and how would SA harness the expertise and resources of developed and less developed nations to benefit and enhance its education system. The paper is divided into 5 parts. 1. What do we understand by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and how successful have we been in realising the objectives of SDG4 - Success Stories and Challenges? 2. What are Africa’s challenges, historically, politically, socially, culturally. 3. BRICS 4. Educational strategies for partnership relations of the BRICS countries: potential for sustainable and inclusive economic growth" – Possibilities, successes and challenges. 5. What are the benefits for SA?