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Taxing the rich to pay for college education for the poor in San Francisco
Last week, San Francisco, a city on the west coast of the United States, hit the news by announcing free tuition for all residents to the local public community college starting this fall. The offer is only available at one … Continue reading
Hidden figures: showing the importance of women in science
Tomorrow is the second year of celebrating the new UN Day on Girls and Women in Science. This subject seems to be picking up steam. It has even hit the big time – featuring in a blockbuster Hollywood film, Hidden Figures, about … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, maths, science, STEM
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Sharing, learning, leading: the E-9 countries and SDG4
With the advent of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), existing education partnerships are re-assessing how best they can pool their knowledge and efforts to achieve the ambitious global goal in education (SDG4). One of those partnerships is the E-9 … Continue reading
Posted in E-9, Economic growth, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged E-9, SDG, SDG4
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What did you learn in school? Is ‘B’ for Banana? Or Burka?
Across the news this week is proof of the explosive nature of textbook content if not got right. The Education Ministry in Bangladesh has released a new version of textbooks for grade one to grade ten that many say display … Continue reading
Education – know your rights
Today is the international day of zero tolerance to female genital mutilation (FGM). Globally, it is estimated that at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM. If current trends continue, 15 million additional … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 gender review, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, education, female education, fgm, gender. equality
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Young people take over the UN to discuss Quality Education
Yesterday, almost 900 young people from over 85 countries took over the UN General Assembly for the UN Youth Assembly. The theme: Realizing the 2030 Agenda: Youth in Action looked at the role of young people in achieving the 2030 … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged global citizenship, SDG, SDG4, target 4.2, UN, youth
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The selective way in which countries cover the Holocaust in learning materials
by Peter Carrier, Georg Eckert Institute This blog assesses how the Holocaust is addressed in official curricula and textbooks worldwide. It shows that, while discrepancies between historical knowledge in different countries challenge global citizenship, historical education nonetheless contributes towards greater awareness … Continue reading
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Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This blog looks at the positive example Rwanda sets in promoting gender equality through its textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, gender. equality, learning, rwanda, textbooks
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How can education help us rethink what we mean by prosperity?
We need to reconceive what it means to prosper. The current prosperity enjoyed by pockets of people across the world has had a devastating impact on our natural environment and left too many people behind. Education is often held up … Continue reading
Posted in Skills, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged davos, prosperity, skills, skills training, WEF
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