Education. Development.
RTE Act Goes Ignored in India
News reports from Mumbai, India, state that schools have received no admissions requests from poorer families newly eligible for reserved school admission due to a 25% quota for underprivileged students under the country’s Ri...
Adult Education Gets a Boost From “Everyday Heroes” Campaign
Organization GIZ ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit or the German Society for International Cooperation) together with the German Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation and the Swiss Agency fo...
50 Ghanaian Women Receive Scholarships For Stellar BECE Scores
50 young women who earned excellent marks on their 2011 BECEs (Basic Education Certificate Examinations) have received scholarships from the World Food Program and the Ghana Education Service. The scholarships will help them co...
Students at Nigerian College Protest Student Death
Monday, students at the Federal College of Education (Technical) in Gombe, Nigeria protested the killing of fellow student Mohammed Kabir by the Anti-Kalare Squad, a group of police. The alleged shooting happened on school gro...
Swedish Study Shows Physical Education Leads to Better Grades
It seems children, like adults, need their daily exercise. Not only does daily exercise improve kids’ health and motor skills, but it also improves their academic levels. A Swedish study announced that boosting physi...
The Holistic Masters in Business Program
Mintzberg’s course involves walking through the countryside Harry Mintzberg, a management studies Professor at McGill University in Canada and graduate of MIT, is teaching a new graduate management course called Internat...
The Growth of Journalism (and Free Speech?) in China
In the Middle Kingdom, the number of higher education journalism programs and Western journalism professors is growing. Teaching Journalism in China is kind of an oxymoronic concept: most media outlets are state-run or, at the ...
South Africa Boosts Early Childhood Development
Grade R in South Africa has doubled from 2003 to 2011, with enrollment increasing from 300,000 to 705,000. With 100% enrollment a goal for 2014, this improvement aligns with that trajectory. Print and distribution of textbooks ...
Nigerian Author Chimamanda Adichie Writes About Education
Earlier this year, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote for online magazine Guernica about the educational system in Nigeria. Adichie is the author of the acclaimed novel Purple Hibiscus, her first book. Her second novel, Ha...
Workshop in Kenya Suggests Improvement in Technology May Benefit Tea Industry
Tea scientist Surajit Ghose is keen to apply technology to developing tea industries in order to produce better yields and, subsequently, higher earnings. Originally working in India, Ghose has recently expanded his reach t...
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Philippines Creates K Through 12 System for New School Year
The last country in Asia to do so, the Philippines announced that its current ten-year curriculum would be changed to a K through 12 system for next year. Grade seven will become the first year of junior high school, where bef...
E-Journal Excitement! Macedonia Universities Get Access to Massive Amounts of Publications
The Macedonian Ministry of Education, together with the University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and four other state universities have signed an agreement with EBSCO Publishing that grants them access to 14 databases of academ...
Adult Education Expands Options in South Africa
With an increase in adult education enrollment and greater access to, and options for, the Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa hopes to improve the dire situation adult education is currently in. In 2011, ...
Nerd Alert! Once in a Lifetime Chance to See Venus Pass Before the Sun
Depending on where you are in the world, on June 5th or 6th, you might get to see Venus pass between Earth and the Sun. The planet will look like a “tiny” (in comparison) black dot against our very own star. The la...
Read This! More Books Needed in Africa and Costa Rica
Books For Africa, a non-profit that donates used books from libraries, schools, and the community is asking for help in raising $9,800 USD in donations to ship books. Since 1988, 46 countries have benefited from the shipping of...
Sub-Saharan African Classrooms in Dire Need of Change
Forty-five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were surveyed by the Institute for Statistics of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) in regards to education. The results paint education as a desolate im...
