This is a video of Sugata Mitra, responsible for the original “Hole in the Wall” project in a slum in New Delhi India started in 1999. Mitra outlines the findings from the expansion of the program in India and elsewhere including South Africa. The video talk by Mitra focuses on how children can learn to …
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One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Commonwealth Through Education
May 12by Lillian Efobi Investing in quality education for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or socio-e …
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Digital Inclusion – A Path to Bridge Educational Inequity
May 7by Samara Ali It’s the beginning of March 2020, and amid the excitement of a mundane school break, c …
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Screen time affects early language learning – Australian study finds
March 30by Cody Mitchell A recent Australian study has found that screen usage could be depriving average th …
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Read moreThis 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Well-being is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to holding African governments accountable to their obligations – to their children. This report explores …
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Zimbabwe has halved its HIV rates from 1997 to 2007 according to a study in British journal Plos. Reuters reported today on the findings: British researchers said Zimbabwe’s epidemic was one of the biggest in the world until the rate of people infected with HIV almost halved, from 29 percent of the population in 1997 to 16 percent …
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University is a great avenue for education, however there are many other opportunities for learning, writes Althea Charles, a 28-year-old from Bridgetown, Barbados. A while back I was having a conversation with a friend, who was telling me of his love for cooking. He was beginning to despise the very thing he loves. He then …
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No one is born confident. You acquire self-confidence through years of practice and learning, writes Kyle Reneau, a 17-year-old Belizean from Belize City. In the highly competitive world we live in the importance of self confidence cannot be exaggerated enough. Ordinary men and women who were once stuck in minimum wage jobs have today become multimillion …
Schoolchildren need a solid foundation in financial literacy to equip them with life’s challenges, writes Undwye Jean-Baptiste, a 25-year-old from Bridgetown, Barbados. An article I read in my local newspaper a few days ago sparked my interest. It stated that a UNESCO official had criticsed the educational system in the Caribbean as being prehistoric and …
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Last week saw the launch of a report by Pakistan’s March for Education campaign group. The publication follows the setting up of an Education Task Force by the government. Nosheen Abbas from Islamabad reports. They’re all types of emergencies in practically every part of Pakistan. No, really, we’ve got it all – ranging from floods, political strife, international image problems, internal …
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Last week saw the launch of a report by Pakistan’s March for Education campaign group. The publication follows the setting up of an Education Task Force by the government. Nosheen Abbas from Islamabad reports. They’re all types of emergencies in practically every part of Pakistan. No, really, we’ve got it all – ranging from floods, political strife, international image problems, internal …
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Spare a thought for the low-skilled workers who work in desperately hard conditions for little pay and whose lives could have been very different if only for a better education, writes Peter Njoroge from Banana, Kiambu in Kenya. The title for this post is both literal and metaphoric. My blood brother, so dear to me and my …
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Spare a thought for the low-skilled workers who work in desperately hard conditions for little pay and whose lives could have been very different if only for a better education, writes Peter Njoroge from Banana, Kiambu in Kenya. The title for this post is both literal and metaphoric. My blood brother, so dear to me and my …
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