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Report: Technology Can Transform Global Health and Education, but It’s No Silver Bullet
New report offers a blueprint for prudent investments in technology, through which governments can create effective and fair health and education services.
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- Technology
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A Kenyan-based Social Enterprise, Yusudi, Raises $250K in Grant Capital
The program seeks out learners with innovative ideas between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, offering the opportunity to join online training on career-start or entrepreneurship depending on their interests.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Impact of Equal Education: Solutions to the Gender Disparity in Sub-Saharan African Schools
About 132 million girls are out of school around the world, and the problem is fundamentally tied to gender. With issues ranging from child marriage to misperceptions about menstruation, girls face unique obstacles to education in many countries. Mark Buttweiler explores how Bridge International Academies is tackling the gender disparity, via a multifaceted, research-based approach that supports equality both in the classroom and the surrounding community.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Why Impact Investors Shy Away From Education
As the space has matured, investors have begun gravitating toward a few sectors, particularly financial services and energy.
Conversely, only 4 percent of impact investing dollars are spent on education, according to the latest survey by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) — and even less on education in the global south. -
Press release: Young people to Davos leaders: more jobs, better education
“There are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 today – the world’s largest-ever group of young people. Every month, 10 million reach working age – and they’re finding that yesterday’s skills no longer match today’s job market,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said at a meeting today in Davos bringing together the Forum’s three communities: Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders and Schwab Social Entrepreneurs.
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- Education
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Women will be left behind by mobile education—just like everything else
Women globally aren’t afforded the same access to technology as men. Sure, there’s been progress: 830 million young people are now online, but there’s still a ways to go. Today, over half the world’s population is still offline, with global internet penetration only slated to break 50% by mid 2019.
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- Education, Technology
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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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