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With Harvard’s Help, Rwanda’s Medical Sector Advances
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Tiger Mom Methodology = Unhappy Kids
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Bosnia-Herzegovina to Receive 1.5M Euros for Reform of Higher Ed Financing
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Reports: Security Forces Kill Syrian Students During Conflict
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New Higher Ed Ranking System: Countries, Not Universities
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With Harvard’s Help, Rwanda’s Medical Sector Advances
Together with Rwanda’s Ministry of Health, Harvard University is teaching a healthcare delivery course titled “Global Health Delivery” in the village of Rwinkwavu two times a year, bringing healthcare education to underprivileged areas of the nation. This February, in Rwinkwavu’s training and research center, a combined 30 African medical leaders, Harvard faculty, and health workers [...]
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Tiger Mom Methodology = Unhappy Kids
Last year, Yale University professor Amy Chua authored Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a book outlining a “superior” and stricter philosophy on child rearing most commonly associated with Chinese culture. The novel created waves of controversy and made many a parent and child development professional take a closer look at the way we educate our [...]
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Bosnia-Herzegovina to Receive 1.5M Euros for Reform of Higher Ed Financing
Representatives of the European Union and the relevant actors in the field of education met in Sarajevo in order to discuss a new EU project for the reform of higher education financing in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through its Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance program, the EU pledged 1.5 million euros (USD $1.9 million) to support the [...]
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Reports: Security Forces Kill Syrian Students During Conflict
Earlier this month conflict arose as Syrian university students clashed with the national security forces. Taking place at Aleppo University, students were holding a daily anti-government protest when they were raided. Security forces and militiamen shot live ammunition. They were dispersing the protest outside of the university dormitory. It’s been reported that at least four [...]
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New Higher Ed Ranking System: Countries, Not Universities
Universitas 21 (U-21), an international university network of 23 institutions, has published education rankings based on a newly designed system for evaluating the placement of 48 nations and territories widely viewed as being at the forefront of higher education. This new system differs from its peers in that, rather than evaluating individual educational institutions, it [...]
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Groundhog’s Day 2012: Let’s Get This Party Started!
I don’t know if the little guy is going to see his shadow today. He’s still sleeping as I write this from Cambodia. I’m celebrating the big day by sharing my top five favorite Groundhog’s Day Creativ...
Education’s Top Ten Countries
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a report on education levels around the world. Below are the top ten most educated countries in the world, ranked by percentage of college educated...
NERD ALERT! The All Time Diva of Flies
If you were a taxonomist put in charge of describing and naming a horsefly with a sexy golden rump, wouldn’t you also be tempted to honor your favorite pop-star? Bryan Lessard did just that when he named a previously un...
Environmental Ed Love! Latin America Celebrates Mother Nature
Across Latin America various organizations and government entities recognized the International Day of Environmental Education in January. In Ambato, Ecuador 1,000 students from 22 schools participated in a conference sponsored...
Kingdom of Education Wonder: Siem Reap, Cambodia
I live and teach near Siem Reap, Cambodia. It’s impossible to ignore the rapid pace of development around here, especially when it comes to higher education. Siem Reap’s a hub for millions of international touri...
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: Jayanth Sharma on Flickr.com
We Love Creative Commons and So Does This Infographic
We’re all about Creative Commons licenses and sharing great ideas, art, literature, lesson plans…everything! We think Creative Commons and free media provide an amazing path to helping us improve education around ...
Education Programs For Men Reduce Violence in Nicaragua
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported in 2011 that up to 60% of Nicaraguan women have been physically abused by a partner at least once. So, Catholic Relief Services and its partner agency, Caritas Nicaragua, joine...
Giftedness 2012: Nurturing Talent, Growing Potential
The 12th annual Asian/Pacific conference on giftedness will be held in the Middle East for the first time this year. Dubai has successfully won the bid to host this year’s conference focusing on education and developing t...
GOOD APPLE: Coffee Camps in Nicaragua
Profesora Nohemi Orozco walks two hours up steep hills, through misty coffee plantations to teach her young students. She shares her classroom, a two-sided shelter attached to the clapboard rooms that house migrant coffee wor...
Education’s Not All About Quantity, We Need Quality Too
In 1999, 106 million children worldwide were not attending school. That number now stands at 69 million. While this sounds hopeful (and is!) we must recognize that quantity and quality do not always go hand in hand. Cla...
Water World: Flooding Closes Namibia Schools
At least 71 schools are closed and students were sent home after rain caused flooding in the northern part of Namibia. Leaders say many of the closed schools shut their doors because kids and teachers can’t cross the ...
The World’s Polio Battlefields: Progress Can Be Elusive
India has reported only a single polio case in the past year. This drops the number of countries with endemic polio to three: Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Of the three, Nigeria is set to eradicate the most dreaded childh...
GOOD APPLE: Emily Hirsch
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 was a music teacher in the States for four years and I have b...
It’s a Girl! Shocking Documentary Coming Soon
In our world today girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. This happens in places like India, China and many other countries. The United Nations reports about 200 million girls are missing tod...
The Fight to Save Mexican-American Studies in Arizona
Okay, so we don’t typically post about schools in the United States. The U.S. doesn’t contain some of the poorest classrooms on earth. Really, students in Tucson should be having a great educational experience, relative...
Soccer Brings Hope to Pakistan
Pakistan spends less than 2% of its gross domestic product on education which leads to a host of problems, not the least of which is young people turning to gangs, drugs, and violence. Soccer teams have begun to offer youth an ...