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India: School on wheels for education in Hyderabad slums

While the parents – construction workers, domestic maids, and and rag pickers would work, their children would not go to school. Under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All programme) being supported by the Government of India, the ‘School on wheels’ now educates children living in Hyderabad slums. Read more […]

August 11, 2012

Highly skilled workers instead of vocationally trained labour

The academic exchange recent history between India and Australia has been limited to forms of and encouragement of vocational training. Now, Australia is looking to encourage the incubation of a highly skilled workforce (the likes of those in medicine, engineering, accountancy and more) from India. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

WEU – the new player in free online, global higher education movement

Distinct from others in the low-cost/no-cost educational movement, WEU (pronounced ‘We U’) provides post-secondary programs, not just surrogate hosting of individual coursework and certificate programs from others’ schools. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

Philippines: Reading contest boosts student scores

Sa Aklat Sisikat, a non-governmental organization in Philippines has been engaging school students in a month long reading competition, competing against their own classmates. The direct beneficial outcome of this has been an apparent increase in the scores of the students. Read more here.

August 11, 2012

Open education for a global economy

The rising cost of education is a problem for people across the world, both in developed and developing countries. But the internet provides an alternative in the form of free education. In the midst of all the sources, is an Ireland based company called ALISON (Advanced Learning Interactive Systems Online), […]

August 11, 2012

Good schools for the world’s poor required

While steady progress has been achieved in access to primary education, a 2015 global development goal, developing countries still continue to face challenges. For example, in some South African townships, poor parents have no option but to pay twice as much of school fee for transportation to school. Read more […]

August 11, 2012

Making education interesting

This post talks about Eric Simons’ ClassConnect which has revolutionized high school education. Very early on in his teens, he discovered that he did not have a problem with what was being taught in the classrooms, but how it was being delivered. He realized that the new generation of people […]

August 11, 2012

Yuwa – “Kicking it new school” in India

Yuwa’s Kicking It New School has been selected by R4D as the winner of the Asian region in the ISESE (Innovative Secondary Education for Skills Enhancement) Competition. Their programme helps girls in Jharkhand, India which has the highest rates of child marriages and trafficking nationally. Read more about their highly […]

August 11, 2012

The need for private schools in poor countries

This post is a reaction on the Guardian post which criticizes Pearson for investing in education, and gives reasons why the developmental community should not ‘reflexively’ be resistant to any investment in these areas by private sector stakeholders. It disproves several myths and makes a convincing case for why private […]