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Education + Technology = Equality: An Innovative Learning Platform Aims to Go International
All children deserve an equal education, and most people agree on that goal. Yet globally, tens of millions of children are not in school, and many schools struggle to retain qualified teachers. Suren Aloyan founded the social enterprise Dasaran to address these issues in Armenia, through an online platform that offers interactive learning content and communication and assessment tools to schools, parents and students. Aloyan explores the impact the platform has generated so far – and discusses its plans to scale up.
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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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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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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
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Kenya: What Universities Can Do to Expand Social Entrepreneurship
Universities are at the forefront of any country's economic development efforts. They play an invaluable role in passing knowledge on to the next generation and creating new knowledge through research. Both these endeavours can set graduates up to contribute to their country's growth.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EdTech is having a renaissance, powered by the emerging world
So-called ‘EdTech’ has seen many false dawns over the years. After being lauded as the teaching platforms of the future, most MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course platforms) have not quite lived up to the superlatives made for them, and the sector has had trouble coming up with more innovative ideas for a while.
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- Education, Technology
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Prince Charles launches education impact bond for India
Britain's Prince Charles has launched a new 10-million-dollar Development Impact Bond (DIB) to help improve education for over 200,000 children in India. The DIB, the largest bond of its type in South Asia, is the latest fundraising initiative by the British Asian Trust (BAT), set up by the royal 10 years ago to fight poverty in South Asia.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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Press release: Response to statement attributed to the Permanent Secretary of Education
Bridge schools have become a lightning rod in a national conversation between the Ugandan Government and school operators over licensing. There are 1,300 schools and thousands of children across the country affected by this issue. An issue that has been debated in parliament, in our national media and by communities. We believe that it is important that the conversation is constructive and that schools that have followed the licensing process as outlined by the Ministry and have submitted the necessary files are able to operate and continue the important work of educating Uganda’s children.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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