Education

Global Education

A student writes on a blackboard in a classroom at the Loyola Cultural Centre, part of the Centre Esperance Loyola (CEL - Loyola Hope Centre), a West African Jesuit organisation, in Agoe-Nyive, a suburb of Lome (REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi).

Blog Post

Why Global Education Financing Must Be Part of Europe's Financial Transaction Tax Revenues for Development

May 1, 2013, Sarah O’Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop

Sarah O'Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop discuss the use of Europe's financial transaction tax revenue for development, and argues that the education community should do all it can to ensure that these newly enacted taxes allocate part of their revenues to global education.

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  • In the News

    There are a crop of people at the bottom of the barrel still that are not being affected by the progress that’s being made [in the goal of universal access to primary education for all children].

    April 22, 2013, Rebecca Winthrop, New York Times
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    Promoting Girls' Education in India

    January 14, 2013, Rebecca Winthrop and Urvashi Sahni

  • In the News

    Just as the Taliban scare us [Pakistanis] with terror, we must scare them by making them unable to operate. We must terrorize them by investing more than ever before in educating girls.

    October 12, 2012, Madiha Afzal , CNN
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    Even if education is interrupted for just a few months, it can be difficult to get children back into schools. Just a daily gathering of teachers and students to read together or discuss the fragile situation around them — this sense of regularity helps.

    October 5, 2012, Rebecca Winthrop, CNN
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    @Brookings Podcast: The Education Crisis in Developing Countries

    August 12, 2011, Rebecca Winthrop

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    @ Brookings Podcast: Pakistan's Islamic Schools

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