Education in Developing Nations

Skills for a changing world: Acknowledging progress and building momentum

Friday, October 7, 2016

A Palestinian woman teaches from the Koran in front of al-Aqsa mosque on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City November 28, 2012. Jerusalem's Old City is holy to the world's three major monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. For Jews it incarnates ancient Israel, for Christians it is where Christ spent the last days of his life and for Muslims, it is where the Prophet Mohammad ascended to heaven. REUTERS/Marko Djurica (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR3AZ8D

World Teachers’ Day: A time to recognize the challenges facing our teachers

Eileen McGivney, Jenny Perlman Robinson, and Priyanka Varma

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Students write beside a wall with a mural featuring wind turbines at a school in Juancho Pedernales April 20, 2012. Power company EGE-Haina announced plans to begin the second phase of construction of its wind farm Los Cocos in Juancho Pedernales which will involve an additional investment of $100 million. The move will increase the Los Cocos project's contribution in renewable energy in the form of wind power to the national electricity network from 25 to 77 megawatts, according to the company's press release. Picture taken April 20, 2012. REUTERS/Ricardo Rojas (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT POLITICS ENERGY) - RTR3122X

The top 5 education innovations needed to keep up in a new economy

Rebecca Winthrop and Priya Shankar

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Children play at Keen Kids daycare in Jakarta August 2, 2012. With more and more women going out to work due to more education and middle-class aspirations daycare has become essential for residents of urban Jakarta, much the way it has in the rest of the developed world. Picture taken August 2, 2012. To match story INDONESIA-DAYCARE/ REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION) - RTR3A3M4

Updates from the field on costing early childhood development

Sophie Gardiner and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Internally displaced children attend a class inside a cave in the rebel-controlled village of Tramla, in Idlib province, Syria March 27, 2016. A group of people, who live in a cave, have set up a school for children during the day. The cave accommodates around 120 students, divided into two shifts. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi SEARCH "SYRIA SCHOOLS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

Three principles for global support to refugee education

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Ugandan students from St. Mary's College in Aboke listen as former abducted girls who returned from captivity by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels talk about their ordeal during a ceremony October 10, 2005 to commemorate the abduction day . Nine years ago LRA rebels abducted 139 students of St. Mary?s College in Aboke, releasing 109 students when the school?s deputy headmistress Rachele Fassera, an Italian nun, followed the rebels into the bush but retained 30 girls, most of them aged between 14 and 15 years. Twenty-four of the girls have since returned at different times and five are believed to have died. The fate of one is not yet known. Picture taken October 10, 2005. REUTERS/Hudson Apunyo - RTR196Y8

Senior women teachers in Uganda secondary schools: Tapping into their potential to improve quality education for girls

Christine Okudi

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Javeria (L) and Mehek check a selfie after an exercise session at the first women's boxing coaching camp in Karachi, Pakistan February 19, 2016. For the past six months about a dozen girls, aged 8 to 17, have gone to the Pak Shaheen Boxing Club after school to practice their jabs, hooks and upper cuts. Pakistani women have been training as boxers in small numbers and competed in the South Asian Games last year, said Younis Qambrani, the coach who founded the club in 1992 in the Karachi neighbourhood of Lyari, better known for internecine gang warfare than for breaking glass ceilings. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RTS8JDZ

Rethinking education in a changing world

Rebecca Winthrop and Eileen McGivney

September 12, 2016

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Classroom technologies narrow education gap in developing countries

Steven Livingston

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

A construction worker is seen near a machine on a site during a facility tour at the proposed Dangote oil refinery site near Akodo beach in the outskirt of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 25, 2016. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RTX2I77I

The future of work in the developing world

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Robots built with recycled materials are seen during the annual robotics fair for students supported by the Bolivian Education Ministry in La Paz, August 10, 2015.

How overlooked innovations can streamline education systems

Rebecca Winthrop, Timothy P. Williams, and Eileen McGivney

Tuesday, July 26, 2016