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Private Education Soars in South Africa
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Peru’s Public Education Gets a Makeover
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United Nations Calls on World to Put Women and Kids First
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MITx Open for (FREE!) Enrollment
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has opened registration for its first MITx online courses. The program allows alternative certification with informal online learning. Registration is free and open to anyone, anywhere in the world. What’s better, there’s no additional charge to get the certification after completing the first prototype class. The first class being offered [...]
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Private Education Soars in South Africa
While doing relatively well compared with the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa still has a long way to go, especially in the area of education. The government-run education system fails 65% of its students who leave before earning a certificate. The private education sector, on the other hand, has seen tremendous growth, expanding by [...]
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Peru’s Public Education Gets a Makeover
Peru’s Minister of Education, Emma Patricia Salas O’Brien launched a campaign to give basic training to 160,000 teachers and support services to 21,000 schools. She says she’s also creating a better evaluation process for educators across the country. The aim of the new campaign is to better-prepare educators for how to make the most of [...]
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United Nations Calls on World to Put Women and Kids First
It’s a great feeling when people in high places share our worldview. In recent public comments, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN stressed the importance of empowering women and youth, especially those at the center of protest movements worldwide. At a lecture in Vienna, Ban told attendees that women and young people are mobilizing [...]
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MITx Open for (FREE!) Enrollment
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has opened registration for its first MITx online courses. The program allows alternative certification with informal online learning. Registration is free and open to anyone, any...
Private Education Soars in South Africa
While doing relatively well compared with the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa still has a long way to go, especially in the area of education. The government-run education system fails 65% of its students who leave bef...
Peru’s Public Education Gets a Makeover
Peru’s Minister of Education, Emma Patricia Salas O’Brien launched a campaign to give basic training to 160,000 teachers and support services to 21,000 schools. She says she’s also creating a better evaluation...
United Nations Calls on World to Put Women and Kids First
It’s a great feeling when people in high places share our worldview. In recent public comments, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN stressed the importance of empowering women and youth, especially those at the cente...
Share of the Week
Share of the Week is the open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: photonquantique on Flickr.com
New Thai Program Urges Schools to Speak English
Thailand is in the thick of its nationwide project “2012 English Speaking Year”. The aim is to teach English at least once a week in all state schools in order to ease Thailand’s entry into the ASEAN communi...
Wikipedia Coming to Cell Phones in Africa, Middle East–for FREE!
By mid-2012 millions of people in Africa and the Middle East will be able to access free, unlimited use of Wikipedia on their smart phones. Mobile network provider Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will allow Orange’s...
Poetry Out Loud! Nicaraguan Festival Inspires Young People
Kids were among the notables invited to the eighth International Festival of Poetry in Granada, Nicaragua. A wide tent of colorful picture books and cushions enticed young readers to relax amid the bustle of the central plaza...
Teachbuzz: Lessons for Anywhere!
It’s a very exciting day for us. Teachbuzz, our resource site designed to provide teachers all over the world (even the poorest places on earth) with fantastic free lesson plans, is ready for the public! We’ve been ...
Carnegie Melon University Launches Classes in Rwanda
Carnegie Mellon University’s first class in Rwanda kicked off this month with eleven students. Leaders report this is the first U.S. research institution offering degrees in Africa with an in-country presence. The initial...
The Future of Education in the New Myanmar
Myanmar’s educational system is considered to be the least effective in Southeast Asia. And, after 50 years of military rule, it’s not surprising. Although the exact numbers aren’t known, it is believed that nearly 30...
GOOD APPLE: Kim Reuter
Good Apples spotlights people and organizations improving education in the developing world. 1. How long have you been working in education? What made you start? I started The Ladybug Project Inc. in the summer of 2010 whil...
India Becomes Worldwide English Education Powerhouse
To study French, one usually goes to France. It’s a logical choice, the nation of the language’s origin. This logic applies to learning German in Germany, Kazakh in Kazakhstan, and Quechua in the Andes. But in an em...
The Fight to End Female Genital Cutting in Africa
Female genital cutting used to be one of the most serious problems faced by African women. From a very young age, girls experienced genital cutting at the hands of family members, friends or community leaders. Female genital cu...
NERD ALERT! Alligators Are Talking About Us
We got word this week that we’re the talk of the swamp in Florida. Our Chief Nerd, Michael Jones, was featured on the front page of the University of Florida’s Alligator newspaper following his stint at TEDxUF. Mi...
Big Pharma Joins the Sharing Revolution
In a surprising move, pharmaceutical companies are joining the open innovation movement by releasing data about potential malaria drugs to the public. Unveiled as part of the World Health Organization’s plans to control ...
African Engineering Education Gets a Boost
Last week global science education scored a victory as UNESCO and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) signed a partnership agreement for bringing engineering initiatives to Africa. At a time when the s...