Vicky Colbert: “Without Quality Education, We Cannot Achieve Anything in Society”
2013 WISE Prize for Education Laureate Vicky Colbert talks about how the innovative Escuela Neuva, a bottom-up educational model, has empowered teachers, improved performance and led to better interactions in classrooms through child-centered learning.
Shakira: Education Is the Keystone to Transform Communities
Shakira founded Fundación Pies Descalzos in 1997. Find out how her organization provides access to early childhood education and empowers older learners, also including parents and the wide community. For Shakira, it is crucial to collaborate with global initiatives like WISE to share best practices and boost change in education on a broader scale.
MOOCs, Mobile, and the Future of Higher Education
In 2025 and beyond we will use mobile, digital technology to learn. The classroom will be in our hands. We will have access to knowledge, lessons, and learning technology anywhere, anytime. We will learn in the moment. Our learning will include immersive, multi-sensory experiences that simulate reality. Artificial intelligence will fine-tune learning to fit each […]
The Five Big Ideas for Higher Education in 2025
I recently returned from the Education Innovation Summit at Arizona State University, an annual gathering known as “Davos in the Desert,” that brings together some 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers from around the word. This was my fourth year at the event, and this time there was a sense among some of the veterans of […]
STEM Is Vital for African Development
In Cameroon, where I am from, and across Africa’s 54 countries, rates of illiteracy are high – particularly among those living in remote areas. Not surprisingly, skills for critical thinking and problem solving are low. But even highly-educated urban dwellers often act and think quite irrationally and still hold superstitious beliefs. In my experience, only […]
Simple Science Sparks
“From the concrete to the abstract; from the near to the far,” this is the first true principle of education. All children are born scientists. Children have boundless energy and being new to the world they are keen to figure out how the real world works. This they do by engaging with the real world […]
Preserving Access and Quality in an Era of Rising University Tuition Fees
State financing of higher education is under stress as countries all over the world struggle with fiscal pressures. This week’s guest contributors Charles A.Goldman, Megan Clifford and Lindsay Daugherty, from Rand Corporation, review a number of cost-sharing policies that can be adopted and how they may affect access to and the quality of education. In the first decade of the […]
Collaborating for Change – Monkey Say, Monkey Do?
Every global or domestic summit on education and learning that I have attended this century mentions the word “collaboration” as an essential 21st century skill. Policy maker after policy maker takes the stage and eventually, like a game of buzzword bingo, uses the word along with its bedfellows “transformation”, “reformation”, “change” and sometimes, if they’re […]
WISE Prize Laureate’s Speech: “Education is the most important catalyst for change.”
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, receives the first WISE Prize for Education from His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, at the Opening Plenary Session of the WISE Summit in Doha, Qatar. Sir Abed founded BRAC in 1972 and has built the world’s largest and most efficient […]