Attending a conference is a great opportunity for personal and professional development for young people. Ashley Foster-Estwick, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Barbados, shares her top tips to help young people prepare for conferences, this summer. I’ve had the privilege of being both an attendee and a presenter at conferences outside of my homeland. I reacted …
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I Watched Planes from My Village – One Day I finally flew in One
April 23I come from Nathuwakhan, a small village with simple living where my journey started in Uttarakhand’ …
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Why Media Students and Graduates Are Falling Behind in the Age of Social Media
January 19by Evans Ijakaa “Which do you think is the most useless major?” I have watched countless vox pop vid …
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Commonwealth delivers a technical training for Youth Development Officers in Ghana
November 24by Anamta Afsar, Youth Officer The Commonwealth Secretariat’s Youth Team, in partnership with the Gh …
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Read moreA growing youth population poses both challenges and opportunities for Pakistan, writes Faisal Saleh Yaqub, 25, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lahore in Pakistan, who argues that the Pakistani state must address some critical issues to ensure the youth bulge is positive for the country. According to Pakistan’s National Human Development Report 64% of Pakistan’s population …
In its inaugural publication, the Commonwealth Students Association(CSA) explores the challenges of evaluating student competence in Jamaica, learning outcomes in India, sexual assault in Africa’s universities and inclusivity in Education globally.It also takes a look at wage-related tensions between Nigeria’s university faculty and Federal Government, the Pacific Youth Leaders Workshop among other happenings. About us:The …
Students in many Commonwealth countries are making the most of the holidays before gearing up for the new school year. Daniel Olajuyigbe, 17 a Correspondent from Ekiti State, Nigeria argues that education is important for each of us and our countries for more reasons than we may realize. When we think about bright futures for ourselves and …
As we celebrate International Youth Day 2019 under the theme “Transforming Education,” Bismark Akoto, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Legon, Ghana explores the power of education to change the lives of our youth, arguing that there are two key areas that must be addressed to transform education. The impact of education on our lives cannot be …
YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: Building Tomorrow recruits and trains young Ugandan university graduates and sends them to rural and under-served schools and communities. With nearly eight million young people in the country, Erisa Sserwadda, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Kampala, Uganda explores how young people can be mobilised to be part of the education solution. …
YOUTH WORK WEEK SPECIAL: A sanitary pad distribution initiative to keep girls in school, and a project to groom school prefects into future leaders are some of the examples of the work young people in Nigeria are doing to create a better future for others. Nnabugwu Chukwuebuka, 26, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Uzii in Nigeria, …
A well-rounded individual is the product of three schools, each of them as important as the next. Commonwealth Correspondent Metolo Foyet, 21, from Cameroon discusses the merits of learning in the home, in the classroom, and from the good old ‘school of life’. Education at home is by far the most crucial of all types …
Young people make up more than half of Fiji’s population – but they are mostly excluded from policy formulation and decision-making. Broderick John Mervyn, one of this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards finalists, is working to change that through his initiative Ignite4Change. Oghenekevwe Oghenechovwen, a 21-year-old Commonwealth Correspondent from Warri in Nigeria, spoke to Broderick about …
Vedant Jain is set on giving children from underprivileged backgrounds the best tools they need to succeed—the discovery of themselves and their abilities. He is co-founder of the ‘Labhya Foundation’; a non-profit that equips children from low socio-economic with critical social and emotional skills. Vedant’s efforts earned him a place as one of the 2020 …