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New UNESCO education report calls for ‘new social contract’
Imagining a new future for education by 2050, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is asking three questions: What should be continued? What should be abandoned? And what needs...
Pandemic Threatens to Drive Unprecedented Number of Children into Learning Poverty
The COVID-19 pandemic could drive up learning poverty, the share of 10-year-olds who cannot read a basic text, to around 70 percent in low- and...
An Investment in Education Can Fuel the Caribbean’s Growth
Education is a strong pillar for the qualitative growth and improvement of human capital. In the Caribbean, which is home to 11 million young...
Iraq: An Urgent Call for Education Reforms to Ensure Learning for All Children
Learning levels in Iraq are among the lowest in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region and are likely to decline even further...
KP’s Education Reforms – Heading Towards Right Path
The first word revealed in the holy Quran was "Iqra" which means “to read”. This first verse of Holy Quran shows us the importance...
Helping Iraqi girls stay in school
When COVID-19 closed schools in Basra, southern Iraq, the academic prospects for many schoolgirls were put at risk. On International Day of The Girl Child,...
Comparing textbooks: Even Afghanistan scores better than Pakistan
Societal struggles and reform often take unexpected turns in vast swaths of land stretching from the Middle East into Central Asia.
Take education for example.
The...
Education a powerful tool to counter hate speech
Growing polarization and intolerance are fuelling a rise in hate speech worldwide, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday, in remarks to the opening of an online forum to counter this “global...
Tertiary Education is key to rebuilding COVID-hit economies
COVID-19 is devastating human capital around the world, affecting lives and livelihoods and posing risks for long term growth and productivity enhancement. As the...
Moscow electronic school — the future of education
The Moscow Electronic School ("MES") project is a cloud-based Internet platform launched in 2016 that unites all educational institutions in Moscow into a single...