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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 […]
August 11, 2012
Pakistan: 50 per cent children do not attend school because they are poor
A number of laws in the country exist in order to protect ‘child rights’ but it seems that few are effective in terms of implementation. At a recent seminar called ‘Promotion and Protection of Child Rights’ organized by the Government in association with UNICEF led to the announcement of the […]
August 11, 2012
New Zealand start RE initaitive in Afghanistan
The Bamyan Province of Afghanistan is set to receive an investment worth US$ 18.6 million from New Zealand to set up solar photovoltaic energy systems. Read more here.
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