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How Has the Purpose(s) of American Higher Education Changed Over Time, and Why?
Initially, universities and colleges have been founded on three central promises such as (a) teaching, (b) public services, and (c) conducting academic research (Scott,...
Afghanistan’s Rigid Cultural Norms; A Serious Challenge for Girls’ Education
The Afghan government, headed by Hamid Karzai, the first elected president of Afghanistan after the collapse of Taliban’s government in 2001 and its international...
Wait for Gender Equality Gets Longer as Women’s Share of Workforce, Politics Drops
Stagnation in the proportion of women in the workplace and women’s declining representation in politics, coupled with greater inequality in access to health and...
Preventing Violent Extremism through Education in Central Asia
The UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and UNESCO Headquarters, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and...
Young Voices Program: Global Space for Youth Empowerment
Young people matter. Not just because they can be powerful constituencies to recruit or consumers to develop. They matter in their own right and...
Unquenchable Thirst to Learning; The Main Reason for Hazaras’ Communities Transformation
With the fall of the Taliban regime, a golden opportunity was provided to all Afghan people and, above all, for the Hazaras. In fact,...
Africa Loses Billions of Dollars Due to Child Marriage
Child marriage will cost African countries tens of billions of dollars in lost earnings and human capital, says a new World Bank report launched...
Letter to heaven: An eulogy to Luang Poo Boonyarith Bundito
Everyone knows him as a great monk who was an exceptional teacher of meditation. From the royal family to a layman, Luangpoo Boonyarith Bundito...
Why Education? How education changed my life
I have a story to tell the world about the importance of education. I was born in a remote village in Madhupurupazilla, under Tangail...
Knowledge economy and Human Capital: What is the impact of social investment paradigm on employment?
Social policy advocates claim the development of the European welfare state model on three phases as follows: traditional welfare state until 1970s; neo-liberal welfare...