Enayat Nasir, University at Albany, State University of New York
If the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan persists, consequences could include higher rates of abuse, the spread of extremism and billions of dollars in economic loss.
Academic performance improves when schools ban smartphones, research shows.
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We live in a digital and distributed world. Universities must adapt to that reality to do a better job of meeting today’s educational needs.
Access to qualified teachers is a major source of educational inequality around the world.
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If national teacher policies are not comprehensive, practical and inclusive of teachers, they can undermine the very workers they aim to help, a global education policy expert argues.
A school girl helps her family herd cows back home after school in the Prey Mou village outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
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Around 33,000 child marriages took place in 2020 in Indonesia, a new report shows. This comes with more girls in Australia’s region dropping out of school and taking on more caring responsibilities.
Workers are seeking credentials to get an edge in the job market.
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When lockdowns went into effect earlier this year, interest in massive online open courses, or MOOCs, began to surge. An expert expects the interest to continue.
Big education tests come with serious side effects, research shows.
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While large-scale education assessments, such as the PISA, are meant to show how education systems are faring around the world, evidence shows these assessments come with a host of problems.
Students listen to their teacher, Shuma Das, at the Sahabatpur Daspara Ananda school in Sahabatpur village, Bangladesh in 2016.
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Schools and students are often targeted during times of armed conflict. Abducted children can be recruited as soldiers and schools are ideal locations for military headquarters.
Educafro, a Brazilian black activist movement, protested in 2012 to demand more affirmative action programs for higher education.
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‘Positive discrimination’ policies around the world are on the rise. What might other countries teach the U.S. about attaining racial, economic and gender equality in higher education?
Is east Asia really the top dog when it comes to education?
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Universities and schools across the globe are offering an increasing number of courses taught in English. Parents and politicians alike are pushing for this change as English is considered a worldwide…
Class one – how much you owe us.
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Sweeping changes to the way student visas are allocated have been recommended by the House of Lords science and technology select committee. It is the sixth time the government has been given such steers…
By definition, corruption is any type of deviation from an ideal. Ideals, as well as ideas, are core business for higher education. So when we fall short it matters. Reputation is becoming ever more important…