Three Ways Governments Can Promote Skill Development in Latin America
This article is part of a series on innovative solutions to tackle the main challenges of Latin American education (part 4 of 6). Across Latin America, higher education is in trouble. In Mexico, to take just one example, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) points out that just 23 percent of all young adults (up to age […]
What Future for Higher Ed in the Arab World?
Higher education leaders in England, France and Italy often take pride in claiming that their country is the seat of the oldest university in the modern world. Indeed, Oxford University was set up in 1167, the Sorbonne was created in 1160, and the University of Bologna began to operate in 1088. But historians have established […]
Soraya Salti: Empowering Youth Against all Odds. When Education Entrepreneurs Create Eternity
To say ‘A teacher touches eternity’ conveys that those who devote their lives to cultivate the talents of the young help them make sense of the future. On occasion, educators empower their students to not just make sense of the future, but to create it. When they do this, they do more than touch eternity, […]
A Healthy Interest in Education
This article 4 of 4 in our special focus on education’s impact on development and why the new development goals must go further to ensure that all children have access to quality basic and secondary education. This special focus is co-produced by Global Partnership for Education. To many it may seem obvious that healthy children are […]
Dr. Sakena Yacoobi “An inspiring leader to create a new future for Afghanistan”
The Skoll Foundation joins the world in warmly congratulating Sakena Yacoobi, Founder and CEO of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL), winner of the 2015 WISE Prize for Education We’ve been privileged to know Sakena since honoring her with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006. Over the years, we have marked her extraordinary educational work in Afghanistan, primarily […]
On Conflict, Education and the Importance of Data
When you think about conflict and education, what comes to mind? If you are like most people reading this article, the answer is likely to be armed conflicts such as war, bombings and direct attacks on education institutions that destroy buildings or kill educators and students. The reality of conflict’s effect on education is more […]
WISE-Gallup Survey Key Findings
The survey’s key finding is that three in four WISE education experts are dissatisfied with education in their respective countries. The majority also believes their nation’s educational system has not improved in the past decade, and few give their system high marks (rating of “4” or “5” on five-point scale) on innovation. WISE experts believe […]
How Private Capital in Education Is Increasing Access, Inspiring Innovation and Improving Outcomes
The face of education is changing. A generation ago, education delivery was dominated by the public sector across geographies, and publishers dominated private sector education. Technology played a minimal role, and few investors were engaged. For too many people in too many countries, education was a privilege rather than a right. The consequence? Unrealized human […]
Mobile Learning is the Only Viable Way to Preserve the Planet
Since the 1970s, the Earth has not been able to regenerate for itself the resources that humanity uses. Currently it takes a year and a half for the planet to regenerate what we use in a year and if the whole planet lived the lifestyle of the average Western nation, we would need five planets […]
If Only I Get the Chance
Ann Cotton is the 2014 WISE Prize for Education Laureate. We made an unusual tableau that 1991 November morning against the backdrop of a vast Zimbabwe sky. There was the farmer, tall and barefoot, his child in a worn school blazer, the headmaster in his dark suit, and me. The child was the reason for our […]