The Global Search for Education: “There is Life Here….”
“In the streets in Yemen where daily life is beyond difficult, I’ve learned about the almost unimaginable capacity for the human spirit to carry on. I’ve learned about resilience and strength.” — Thana Faroq And Thana Faroq is proving it to audiences all over the world with her powerful photography. Thana explains that her art allows her “to eliminate ignorance, educate and inspire, even during...
The Global Search for Education: Learning How to Learn
“Numeracy and literacy are important, but learning is also a vehicle to help people recover and regain what is most critical to them – their own dignity, self-esteem, and respect for the other. — Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies “Numeracy and literacy are important, but learning is also a vehicle to help people recover and regain what is most...
The Global Search for Education: Trends
“There is a lot of pressure placed on education to act as one of the major levers to reduce inequality, but it cannot act alone.” — Tracey Burns Trends Shaping Education 2016 is a new and updated OECD work which looks at major social, demographic, economic and technological trends affecting the future of education. The first edition of the book was published in 2008 and two subsequent editions were published in 2010...
The Global Search for Education: Latin America is Online
“Over 35 percent of Latin American companies say that an inadequately trained workforce is their primary impediment to expansion, versus just 22 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa and 17 percent in South Asia.” — Gabriel Sanchez Zinny Gabriel Sanchez Zinny is focused on education and the improvement of educational quality to fit a 21st century economy. Zinny is the founder and president of Kuepa.com, a blended learning...
Around the World in 30 Days – December 2015
C. M. Rubin’s Global Education Report Has there ever been a time when an education framework for 21st century competencies was more important? What should world citizens learn in an age of Google, Robots, Climate Change, Increased Migration, Radicalism and Inter-connected Economies? Our voices in The Global Search for Education this month – Dr. Siva Kumari, Dr. Denise Pope, Rebecca Ingram, Alexa Joyce, Francesca Borgonovi,...
Recent Comments