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Press release: UN reveals global number of girls not in school is increasing
Equal education for girls is an unfulfilled promise for the majority of the poorest families in low-income countries. Around 131 million girls worldwide are still out of school, and for them equality remains elusive. According to the latest UN reports, the number of out of school girls at primary level grew from 32 million in 2015 to 34 million in 2016.
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- Education
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- global development, SDGs
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This class helps developing-world solutions reach people in need
The innovations emerging from Stanford University’s Design for Extreme Affordability course are both viable business models and sensitive to local needs.
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- Education, Technology
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Are Impact Bonds and Outcome Funds a Solution to the Global Learning Crisis?
A related and relatively new phenomenon, Outcome Funds for Education, may further help address issues of fragmentation and inequities in funding.
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- Education
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Food For Good: 4 Social Enterprises That Are Transforming The Food And Beverage Industry In South East Asia
From compostable coffee capsules to rice berry, these social ventures have made it their mission to create more social and environmental awareness around our food and drinks consumption by empowering local communities and championing sustainable production practices.
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- Agriculture, Education, Environment
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- South Asia
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The Gates Foundation’s Education Plans Go International
To find out how the foundation could help, he and others from the foundation spoke to teachers, academics, government officials, and parents in several countries, including Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda.
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- Education
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Technology ‘can transform’ the developing world’s education
"In tech we solve problems for hundreds of millions of users," he said. "We asked the question that most pedagogues think is not possible: Can you teach without human teachers? Can you teach without schools? We started asking those blasphemous questions... We took people from the gaming industry, from the social media industry and pedagogues, and we started experimenting with a solution."
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- Education, Technology
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Why do young workers in developing countries have so many injuries?
Health and safety at work can get ridiculed in more affluent countries as something nannyish and interfering - but for much of the developing world it is a matter of life and death.
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- Education
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This is what the global learning crisis looks like, in real time
Luis Crouch, chief technical officer for the international development group at RTI, a research-based nonprofit, is part of a team that helped develop reading assessments that are widely used in the developing world.
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- Education