At WISE 2011, Former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, makes an impassioned plea to strive to achieve Millennium Development Goal 2, Education for Alm, by 2015, because it is a goal that unlocks opportunity in every area of human life, bringing prosperity, freedom, equality and dignity. He calls for the creation of a global fund for […]

Kirsty Lang, Master of Ceremonies, welcomes the WISE Prize Laureate, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder of BRAC. The Laureate describes BRAC’s early years and the growth of its programs over time. BRAC, has grown in four decades to now reach 140 million people in nine countries. He stresses that “education is the fundamental catalyst for […]

Josephine Green specializes in social foresight, innovation and change and is former Senior Director of Trends and Strategy at Philips Design, Philips, The Netherlands. Ms. Green participated in the WISE 2011 Debate on Developing New Approaches to Leadership. As part of its month-long focus on girls and women, WISE invited Ms. Green to write a guest […]

According to a report by the Autism Education Trust (AET) in the United Kingdom, “pupils with autism have ambitious goals in life and they must be supported to achieve them, alongside their peers.” On World Autism Awarenesss Day (April 02), we interviewed Steve Huggett, Director of the Autism Education Trust  and the organisation’s Project Manager Sarah-Jane Critchley to look at what […]

There is a clear movement occurring in education globally right now – a movement that is seeking to shift the epicentre of educational paradigms from an industrial-era experience to something more relevant to the ever changing and dynamic contexts of the 21st century. In the first decade of this new century, much great work has been […]