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, […]
WISE-Gallup Survey: “Connecting Education to the Real World”
The 2015 WISE Education Survey: Connecting education to the real world, focuses on how well education systems around the world are preparing students for work and what can be done to support this vital task. It represents the views of the WISE global community of education experts – teachers, students, recent graduates, policy makers, non-profit […]
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 […]
What Should Public Education Systems For the 21st Century Look Like?
World Teachers’ Day – an annual celebration of the great craft that is teaching. But is this most noble of professions struggling with an identity crisis? And what does this say about the nature of education systems across the world? Working in education, it sometimes feels that no news is good news. There are steady […]
Who Should Equip Learners for the Job Market?
Globally, study after study is coming up with one message: graduates lack essential skills to get by in the workplace. They lack skills like communication, teamwork, critical thinking, the ability to work under pressure, and even punctuality! In a global survey of business leaders by Hult International Business School (2013), one of the key insights was that leaders […]
Creative Public Leadership
How School System Leaders Can Create the Conditions for System-wide Innovation This article is the executive summary of the 2015 WISE Research Report “Creative Public Leadership“. Find out more about the 2015 WISE Research series. This interim report explores how school systems can create the conditions for successful innovation that transform outcomes for all learners. The focus […]
Can Venture Capital Unlock Innovation in Education?
Tech investors and entrepreneurs will often tout venture capital as a vehicle to enable innovation in education. But that’s not what venture capital does, although innovation might at times be one of the side-effects. Venture capital is investment, and a particular kind of investment in a particular kind of startup at that. Venture capital is […]
Business for Education is Education for Business
Professor Tom Fletcher will be speaking at the 2015 WISE Summit. In the last month, 200,000 Syrian refugee children have had the chance to return to school in Lebanon — some of them for the first time in more than four years. This was a talismanic example of what the public and private sector can achieve […]
Purpose and Capital to Bring Quality to Education
“Over the past generation many of the most talented people on earth have tried to transform capitalism itself, to use the market to solve social problems. These are people with opposable minds: part profit-oriented and part purpose-oriented.” In describing these “opposable minds,” New York Times columnist David Brooks was commenting on how investors and the social entrepreneurs they are […]
Entrepreneurship Education: A Global Consideration From Practice to Policy Around the World
As entrepreneurship continues to gain momentum and visibility as an engine of global economic development, it is critical to understand and optimize the role that entrepreneurship education plays. Based on a detailed review of the literature on the entrepreneurship education ecosystems and frameworks in the United States, China, Finland, and Qatar, this report identifies the […]