The Pioneer Way: Emotional Scaffolding
Gao Yue is an eighteen-year old from Yinchuan, an oasis town of two million in the northwest deserts of China. He has a large build, and a soft pensive face. He likes to wear black clothes, which contrasts with his pale skin. He can sit hunched in a dark corner somewhere for hours, but when […]
Working Together to Improve Education
“The future success of the South African classroom lies in understanding the issues of interdependency and sustainability – and in having the courage to make innovations possible. This Review is a showcase of a section of the outstanding innovations in the South African Education sector.” (Professor Jonathan Jansen – writer of the Review’s foreword) South Africa spends […]
Giving Fresh Grads a Chance for a Good Life
Imagine trying to find a job as a recent college graduate in the Middle East. Not only would you be looking for a job in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, in challenging economic times, you will also be competing with millions of other young people graduating from universities. At about 25%, the youth unemployment rate in […]
The Role of Cities: What Works in Scaling Up Innovations to Improve Education Outcomes?
The global education debate has rightly moved from questions of access to a focus on quality and the practical steps that can bring about improvement in learning outcomes. The new UN Sustainable Development Goals are all about quality. Improving learning outcomes is not an easy task. However recent development in several major cities give us […]
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 […]