As Brazil’s economy grows stronger, its need for more English speakers increases. Abril Educação, one of Brazil’s biggest publishers and an education company that teaches primary and secondary school courses, is capitalizing on this need by increasing its involvement in companies teaching ESL. Very recently, Abril Educação acquired Wise Up, a Brazilian ESL company, for $444 million. […]
Established in 2005, the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) is a scholarship program for Saudi Arabians to study abroad at the undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral level. Since 2005, the program has cost US $5 billion, which makes it one of the most well-funded scholarships in the world. The scholarship pays for a three years of […]
The Sacred Valley Project (SVP) was established in 2009 to provide educational support services for young women from low-income, rural and hard-to-reach regions of the Andes by facilitating access to secondary education. In the Sacred Valley of Peru, the world’s most direct descendants of the Incan Empire live in extreme poverty, struggling to meet even […]
In Swaziland, most primary school principals have been charging their students annual fees in direct opposition to the Free Primary Education program the Swazi government implemented in 2009. The plan promised to provide all Swazi children with a free elementary school education. Principals claim that the collected money goes to keeping the schools up and […]
In Thimphu, Bhutan‘s capital, one school’s moto is “Let nature be your teacher.” The school has a communal vegetable garden, flower gardens, recycle and reuse activities, trees, and children learn basic agricultural skills and about environmental conservation, all as a part of Bhutan’s Green Schools for Green Bhutan program. The program is part of Bhutan’s […]
In a few short weeks, classes will begin at the newest campus of Kenyatta University — located in northeastern Kenya, the Dadaab campus will serve the world’s largest refugee camp, which is home to nearly half a million displaced Somalians who fled from the 2011 famine. This will be the first higher education institution geared […]
Share of the Week is open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: Aftab Uzzaman on Flickr.com
Share of the Week is open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: keso s on Flickr.com
This photo depicts Vishukkani, the most important event in Vishu, which is a Hindu festival. To learn more, please click here. Share of the Week is open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: Ronn aka “Blue” Aldaman on Flickr.com
Share of the Week is open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: Ronn aka “Blue” Aldaman on Flickr.com