Echidna Global Scholars Series

A female teacher and female students gather around a desk.

International Women’s Day reflections on leading for an equal future in a COVID-19 world

Christina Kwauk and Emiliana Vegas

Friday, March 5, 2021

A girl in Uganda reads a book.

How COVID-era innovation can build more equitable education systems

Hawah Nabbuye and Sarah Kayondo

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

A girl studies at her desk.

Gender-based violence in primary schools

Friday, February 5, 2021

Jamaican students dance at school

Gender-based violence in primary schools: Jamaica

Dasmine Kennedy

Friday, January 22, 2021

Kenyan child

Gender-based violence in primary schools: Kenya

Friday, December 18, 2020

Nigerian school girls

Gender-based violence in primary schools: Nigeria

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Childen sit on the ground in a outdoor school during a lesson in Santiniketan village in this undated handout photograph. In Santiniketan village in West Bengal -- the home of Nobel literature prize winner Rabindranath Tagore -- a voluntary initiative helping local Kora and Santhali tribal children to read and write Bengali is now so popular it needs a second building. To match Reuters Life! INDIA- / REUTERS/Stringer (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)

India’s National Education Policy 2020: A reformist step forward?

Friday, October 2, 2020

Ayak Chol Deng, 31, an epidemiologist, spoken word poet, activist, and a founding member of Ana Taban, poses for a photograph at her home in Juba, South Sudan, April 20, 2017. Deng was born in a refugee camp in Gambela, briefly lived in Cuba as a child, and then studied and lived in Kharoum, Sudan and Nairobi, Kenya. She is divorced and a mother of three. "I hope for better serviced institutions, better opportunities for youth, a country where I don't need to be from a specific tribe," said Deng. In one of her poems, she writes: "Heal this spirit that's broken, piece together pieces of me, my affiliation, or tongue, colour, politics, restore what’s human in me, peace, come find me, enrich this fist choking, un-taint my disputes, resonating, unhinge my words, elevating, unleash a conciliation, everlasting, peace, come find me." REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu SEARCH "CAMPEANU ANA TABAN" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Taking distance learning ‘offline’: Lessons learned from navigating the digital divide during COVID-19

Angelica Towne Amporo and Hawah Nabbuye

Friday, August 7, 2020

Student teacher with kids at home/school (credits: dRPC, Kano December 2019)

Reflections on innovation in girls’ education in Nigeria

Judith-Ann Walker

Friday, June 26, 2020

A handful of students remain on campus at Monroe Community College, Friday, May 15, 2020. The college allows students who don't have a residence to go back to or live too far away to remain living on campus. Nights Asefa of Greece works on homework while Danniela Morales who lives in Jamaica in the Queens borough of NYC, eats a cupcake. Asefa, who will attend SUNY Albany in the fall said, "I hope everything goes back to normal," and that they can see each other face to face.Rochester Coronavirus Mcc Students Reopen Rochester Two Girls

Support for school-aged moms in Jamaica during COVID-19

Dasmine Kennedy

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Prerna School in India

COVID-19 in India: Education disrupted and lessons learned

Thursday, May 14, 2020

A child watches a train passing through the Kibera slum of Kenya's capital Nairobi February 26, 2015.REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT)

How school closures during COVID-19 further marginalize vulnerable children in Kenya

Damaris Seleina Parsitau and Evelyn Jepkemei

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

A female Jordanian superhero

Recognizing women’s important role in Jordan’s COVID-19 response

Mayyada Abu Jaber

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Children watch a movie on a computer at a shelter in the town of Comala, in the Mexican state of Colima, October 24, 2015. Hurricane Patricia caused less damage than feared on Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, but hammered an isolated part of the shoreline dotted with luxury villas and fishing villages, where the storm and its 165 mph (266 kph) winds landed. Thousands of residents and tourists fled the advance of the storm, one of the strongest in recorded history, seeking refuge in hastily arranged shelters. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

Mexico’s COVID-19 distance education program compels a re-think of the country’s future of education

María Cristina Osorio Vázquez

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

A woman covers her nose and mouth with ? scarf, as she along with others waits to receive cash from a country-wide Ehsaas Emergency Cash program, introduced by the government for vulnerable families due to the ongoing spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Karachi, Pakistan April 11, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

A gender-sensitive response is missing from the COVID-19 crisis

Thursday, April 16, 2020