Why Is Education the Key to Peace and Prosperity?
The new world economic order is characterized by a knowledge-based economic system, the rapid pace of technological changes, and the globalization of markets. These characteristics have made human capital the main determinant of the competiveness of companies and countries; they have opened new opportunities for countries with limited natural resources. In addition, they enable young entrepreneurs […]
Three Education Conferences that Have Helped Me Grow
Diana Al-Dajani, founder and CEO of the Arabic learning portal eduTechnoz, shares her takeaways from three conferences that have helped her grow, both professionally and personally. EdTech Europe 2015 I remember I was very excited and apprehensive that I was the only one in the conference who was teaching Arabic – most of the EdTech projects […]
Why Social Enterprises Can Lead the Way in Education Provision
As we embark on 15 years of daunting and extremely demanding targets we must, as a collective, accept that the way to make a telling change is to push ideological differences aside and accept that national governments won’t be able to fund and deliver these bold targets on their own. Fifteen years ago, when the Millennium Development […]
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Innovate Education on a Shoestring
Dongguan, an industrial city in southern China, is probably the most labor-intensive area in the world. Each year, millions of migrant workers from inland provinces leave their hometown to become workers on the production line in factories of Dongguan. These migrant workers not only want to make money, they also want their children to become […]
Leading Change in Education: the Role of Social Enterprise
Education may often be thought of as the last and most stubborn bastion of bureaucracy and factory mentality in this fast-changing era. Many people have a mixed emotion about education. On one hand, they believe access to high-quality education is essential for their future; on the other hand, they are distrustful of the education they […]
What Role Can Social Entrepreneurs Play in Education?
Special Focus : Can Social Enterprise Lead Innovation in Education? the world has changed, and continues to change, at unparalleled speeds. Education and skills requirements for the future will have completely new dimensions, and global education systems will need to adapt quickly to equip the worlds’ young people for the new demands. It is time to […]
Scaling Quality Education for the World’s Poorest Children
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 2 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “One of the most gratifying elements of the organisation is that we have almost 6,000 staff members who are working together to provide children with the quality of education that […]
Driving Social Innovation in Higher Education
This article is part of a special interview series featuring global innovators in education (part 1 of 5). Visit WISE ed.review regularly to read the upcoming articles. “The more we shift from the myth of the ‘hero’, the more we can all participate in contributing to change in a variety of ways,” explained Marina Kim, Co-Founder and […]
Closing the Gap Between K12 and Higher Education in MENA
One of the first questions to address when approaching the gap between secondary and higher education in the Arab World is whether this gap is a reality or a myth. In the last few years, I was particularly intrigued by this question, which led me to conduct a sample study including 2500 GCC students sent […]
Why Quality Matters More Than Quantity in Education
Teach for America (TFA) has paved the way for quality education in the United States. Currently, TFA teachers are impacting more then 750,000 students in 2,600 schools. The woman behind the vision: Wendy Kopp. The idea for TFA was first proposed in Kopp’s undergraduate thesis for Princeton in 1989. TFA aims to “enlist, develop, and mobilize as […]