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Erasmus+: EU will invest over €3 billion in young Europeans to study or train abroad in 2020
European Commission published
its 2020 call for proposals for the Erasmus+ programme. 2020 is the last year of the current
European Union programme for mobility and cooperation...
Poetry and Rancor: Donald Trump, America and the “Hollow Men”
"We are the hollow men, We are the stuffed
men"-T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Donald Trump did not emerge ex nihilo, from nothing. He...
Reducing gender gaps in Asia and Pacific essential to realizing region’s potential
Over the past two decades, the Asia and Pacific region
has made progress in reducing gender gaps in certain areas, most notably
education. According to the...
Sri Lanka Needs to Invest in People to Unlock Its Productive Potential
The World
Bank unveiled today a new report to
guide policymakers and development practitioners across
Sri Lanka in better investing in the health and education of all
Sri Lankans.
The report Sri Lanka Human Capital Development :
Realizing the Promise and...
Higher education needs to step up efforts to prepare students for the future
Demand for tertiary education continues to rise,
but its further expansion will only be sustainable if it matches the supply of
graduates with labour market and...
Women outnumber men in higher education but gender stereotyped subject choices persist
Education is essential to achieving gender
equality. From the earliest schooling to the highest levels of post-graduate
study, education influences the opportunities that can shape people’s...
Somalia: Boosting Education Outcomes is Critical for Sustained and Inclusive Growth
Improving education outcomes
of the younger generation is key for
enhancing productivity, sustaining economic recovery, boosting
inclusive growth and promoting poverty reduction in Somalia, says the
4th edition of the World Bank’s Somalia
Economic Update (SEU).
Titled Building Education to
Boost Human Capital, the...
Emptiness and consciousness: Still unseen limits of American politics
“Conscious of his
emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In
vain.”-Karl Jaspers, “Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time”...
“Whisperings of the Irrational”: Core Origins of America’s Trump Decline
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason,
but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings...
German Education needs full Restructuring
Authors: Nicolas Böhmer and Ajmal Sohail
In education and as a result in economy Germany
seems to fall behind.
Shortage of
skilled workers – this term disappeared...