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Searching for the perfect grad school
I was fresh
off the boat a graduate from Thammasat University in Thailand. I was young,
energetic and enthusiastic and at that point, I wanted nothing...
Seize the opportunities of digital technology to improve well-being but also address the risks
Digital technology can improve our lives but it
also poses a major risk of widening social inequality and blocking
opportunities for people without the skills to...
Boosting adult learning essential to help people adapt to future of work
Many OECD countries need to urgently scale-up and upgrade their adult learning systems to help people adapt to the future world of work, according...
Toward Closing the Gender Gap in Nuclear Science
Authors: Miklos Gaspar and Margot Dubertrand*
Women make up less than a quarter of the workforce in the nuclear sector worldwide, hurting not only diversity within...
We need to build more networks of women in science
Why science?
I was born in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with family roots in Usangi, near Mount Kilimanjaro. I was lucky. My parents were...
Learning Cities Award Winners
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) announced that the winners of the 2019 UNESCO Learning City Award are: Aswan (Egypt), Chengdu (China), Heraklion...
Working for a brighter future
Authors: Cyril Ramaphosa and Stefan Löfven*
We stand at a crossroads as seismic shifts take place in the world of work.
Technological advances are changing the...
Gendered Languages May Play a Role in Limiting Women’s Opportunities
In many developing countries, women face significant barriers to their equal participation in society. While some of these barriers are easy to see, a...
Who Pays for the Reskilling Revolution?
The cost of reskilling the 1.4 million US workers likely to lose their jobs as a result of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and other...
Asia must prepare today for tomorrow’s jobs
Technology optimists argue that progress creates many more jobs than it destroys. They say fears over job losses are as misplaced as Luddite worries...