Restoring Hope, Rebuilding Futures: the Vital Role of Education
Special Focus : Accelerating Innovation in Refugee Education Migration and displacement dominate our news media, and for good reason: launching its annual Global Trends study, UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency reported that that 65.6 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2016 – a total bigger than the population of the United Kingdom. 22.5 […]
Entrepreneurship and Education: Q&A with Badr Jafar
Badr Jafar on the role of social enterprise in addressing socio-economic challenges, and why education must change. • Briefly describe your journey as a social entrepreneur. Born in Sharjah into a family business, I had a very early education on the general nuances of doing business. The social impact element was something I picked up […]
A Lean Startup Approach to Education Development
Millions of Syrian refugee children today lack access to a quality education, leaving them at risk of becoming a lost generation. Unfortunately this is not where the problem ends, but begins. Due to challenges ranging from inequality to poverty to civil war, there are roughly one billion children around the world who don’t receive a […]
The Big Idea: Reset the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem with Education
When we surveyed fresh graduates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) about their lives, hopes, and challenges, two things stood out. First, 75% of fresh graduates in the Middle East and North Africa say that finding a job is the biggest challenge faced by their generation. Second, when asked about the greatest challenge they […]
Designing the Future of Education
Most agree that schools have struggled to keep up with the pace of society’s changes. Although it’s easy to point to the “industrial” nature of the way schools are designed or make lists of the skills we need to foster for the future, actually creating the new models for learning is a daunting task. […]
Risk-takers Needed: Scaling Innovation For Equity in Education
The American computer scientist and Rear Admiral Grace Hopper apparently had a clock on her wall that she deliberately ran anti-clockwise. A pioneer programmer, Hopper has been probably misquoted as saying, “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, “We’ve always done it this way.”‘ Hopper understood that nothing can progress or improve if […]
Building Entrepreneurial Culture at Moroccan Universities
Entrepreneurship is the ability of an individual to move from idea to action. It entails creativity, innovation and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects to create value. Entrepreneurship training plays a key role in developing these abilities and behaviors, promoting self-employment at the same time. University entrepreneurship programs and modules […]
Six Sources That Can Help Teachers Think Like Entrepreneurs
‘Entrepreneurship’ is an immortal buzzword. A simple online search will provide you with over 146,000,000 answers (and multiple pictures of Richard Branson) of which the first one (by Wikipedia) will give you the following: Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which typically begins as a […]
The Four Big Fails That Made My Business Succeed
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison Failure and Success are like two rivaling siblings that continuously squabble in front of every starting entrepreneur. In starting my own business, I have not found a way of having one without the other. It is no secret that you need […]
Bringing “Context” to Entrepreneurship Education
In 2012, Gallup-Silatech’s joint publication used an exciting title: ‘Qatar’s rising entrepreneurial spirit’. Indeed, the past few years have witnessed a fast paced rise and thickening of Qatar’s entrepreneurship ecosystem. Qatar’s dynamic entrepreneurial spirit has involved frequent events, training programs, and the participation of multiple actors collaborating in the goal of raising new Qatari entrepreneurs […]