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Special Edition: Peace Education and Non Violence, Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century, FLS News Alerts Issue 813 – 19 Oct 2018

by Joseph Bullough | October 19, 2018 | Newsletters | 0 Comments

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other" ―Mother Theresa 2 Mins | Read Report UNESCO-MGIEP Launches Policy Brief on Rethinking Schooling Report analyses curriuclum from 22 countries... Read 5-6 Mins | Opinion Efficiently...

Meet Cambodia’s ‘Rubbish Man’: The School Where Children Pay For Their Education in Recycled Waste Materials, FLS News Alerts Issue 812 – 18 Oct 2018

by Joseph Bullough | October 17, 2018 | Newsletters | 0 Comments

"Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting" ―Ivan Illich 3 Mins | Stories Meet the School Where Children Pay for Education in Recyclables About 65 kids are enrolled at the Cambodian...

Singapore abolishes school exam rankings, says learning is not competition, Issue 811 – Tue 17 Oct 2018

by Joseph Bullough | October 16, 2018 | Newsletters | 0 Comments

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do" ―Leonardo Da Vinci 3 Mins | Policy Children in Singapore Will No Longer Be Ranked By Exam Results Singapore has long been an educational high-achiever... Read 3 Mins | Data Filipino...

Mobile Teachers in Myanmar Help Out-Of-School Children From Ethnic Minority, FLS News Alerts, Issue 810 – 11 Oct 2018

by Joseph Bullough | October 11, 2018 | Newsletters | 0 Comments

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge" ―Albert Einstein 3 Mins | Case Myanmar: Mobile Teachers Help Out-of-School Children Years of civil war and tension has meant that Karen... Read 7 Min Video | Case New Data: Poor...

Special Edition: World Teachers’ Day 2018, Celebrating Educations’ Unsung Heroes, FLS News Alerts Issue 809 – Tue 9 Oct 2018

by Joseph Bullough | October 8, 2018 | Newsletters | 0 Comments

"Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story" ―Josh Shipp 4-5 Mins | Stories Stories of Education's Unsung Heroes A good teacher can change many lives. Even with... Read 7 Min Video | Case Philippines: Why do Teachers Teach? On World Teachers' Day,...

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Cambodia: 20.6m Education grant targets disadvantaged children

by Joseph Bullough | June 12, 2018 | Access, Cambodia News, News, Partnership | 0 Comments

^ a girl studies in school. KT/Chor Sokunthea Sen David / Khmer Times / June 8 2018 The Education Ministry’s Capacity Development Partnership Fund has accepted another multimillion dollar grant from...

300,000 Afghan children out of school in Nangarhar over Daesh

by Khaing Sandar Htun | September 21, 2015 | Access, Afghanistan News, News | 0 Comments

An Afghan official says hundreds of thousands of children in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar cannot go to school due to the presence of Takfiri Daesh terrorists in the area. The...

Philippine LGUs and ECCD Council lead Bulilit Center Initiatives

by Khaing Sandar Htun | March 10, 2015 | News, Philippines News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

Local Government Units (LGUs) and the Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) Council lead the management of 200 National Child and Development Centers (NCDCs), more commonly called Bulilit...

Indian children to benefit from new School in the Cloud

by Khaing Sandar Htun | December 3, 2014 | ICT in Education, India News, News | 0 Comments

Prof Sugata Mitra's vision to create seven Schools in the Cloud to help children everywhere tap into their innate sense of wonder is another step closer. The penultimate learning lab will officially...

Pakistan: Sindh to adopt policy for out-of-school kids, adults

by Mari Asano | December 8, 2016 | ICT in Education, News, Pakistan News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

The Sindh government has prepared a policy to provide opportunities of meaningful education to out of school children and adults and young persons who are not literate. The Sindh Non-Formal...

Pakistan: Non-formal education must for higher literacy rate

by Mari Asano | March 8, 2017 | News, Pakistan News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

Without non-formal education, we will not be able to achieve 90 per cent literacy rate & 100 per cent enrolment as targeted in the vision 2025 of Pakistan to achieve universal primary education. For...

Out-of-school kids change location, foil enrolment

by Khaing Sandar Htun | August 10, 2015 | Access, India News, News | 0 Comments

Over a month after the state-wide out-of-school survey, BMC authorities are still facing obstacles in admitting the children in schools, mainly due to the fact that a sizeable number of surveyed...

Fast track: Out-of-school children to reach grade 5 in 40 months

by admin | July 14, 2014 | CEI, News, Pakistan News | 0 Comments

"The Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Department (L&NFBE) is working on a project to provide first six years of education to out-of-school children in an ambitious 30 to 40 months. L&NFBE...

Over 15 m children out of school: NA told

by Khaing Sandar Htun | November 27, 2014 | Access, News, Pakistan News | 0 Comments

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Education and Professional Training Engineer Baligh-ur-Rehman on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that over fifteen million children were out of school in...

Singapore schools to introduce e-learning portal from 2018

by Mari Asano | August 17, 2017 | News, Singapore News | 0 Comments

SINGAPORE: Students in Singapore will be able to access an online learning portal starting next year, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced in a press release on Wednesday (Aug 16). The basic...

The Oldest and Latest Community-Building Hub: Your Public Library

by Khaing Sandar Htun | February 2, 2015 | ICT in Education, News | 0 Comments

For most people, the word “library” evokes images of index cards, befuddling Dewey Decimals and dusty tomes. But the 22 projects honored by the Knight News Challenge on Libraries on January 30,...

Content-Centered Courses: How Google Has Destroyed Traditional Education (And How That’s A Good Thing)

by Khaing Sandar Htun | July 20, 2016 | ICT in Education, News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

Access to information has made content-centered courses move towards obsoleteness. But don’t let this be a threat; this is an opportunity to make your expertise shine and a way to enhance your own...

Many disabled children in poorer countries left out of primary education

by Khaing Sandar Htun | August 19, 2015 | Children with Disabilities, News | 0 Comments

Human Rights Watch report on the 500,000 children with disabilities not in education in South Africa reflects worldwide trend in developing countries An estimated 500,000 children with disabilities...

Why schools should be more like organic farms

by Khaing Sandar Htun | July 13, 2015 | News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

The problem with schools isn't that they work poorly. It's that they work too well at doing the wrong thing. Nine years after Ken Robinson delivered the most-watched TED talk of all time, the...

48% students not engaged actively in learning: Survey

by Mari Asano | September 5, 2016 | India News, Learning Outcomes, News | 0 Comments

On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, the teaching community collectively voiced their opinion on the current engagement level of Indian students. According to Pearson Voice of Teacher Survey-2016,...

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

by Joseph Bullough | September 12, 2018 | Access, Cases, Gender, News, Pakistan News | 0 Comments

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 6 Sep 2018 | by: Jamila Razzaq | Story Source: Brookings ~ Go to Original Article After completing the Echidna Global Scholar program at Brookings in 2015, I...

What is the right age to start your child in primary school?

by Mari Asano | February 23, 2017 | News, Policy and Curriculum | 0 Comments

Lynn McArdle was devastated when she heard her four-year-old son Luke would not be starting school in September 2016 because the age cut-off date had been changed for enrolment. He was doing his...

Riding the mobile wave back to school

by Khaing Sandar Htun | September 11, 2015 | ICT in Education, Learning Outcomes, News | 0 Comments

As kids head back to the classroom, 81 percent of students will be relying on mobile devices to help them study. Teachers, parents— and the students themselves— are using these devices to unearth...

A top futurist predicts the largest internet company of 2030 will be an online school

by Mari Asano | January 10, 2017 | ICT in Education, News | 0 Comments

Thirty years ago, it was a big deal when schools got their first computers. Today, it's a big deal when students get their own laptops. According to futurist Thomas Frey, in 14 years it'll be a big...

Social Apps in Education

by Mari Asano | March 23, 2016 | ICT in Education, News | 0 Comments

The use of social-media for socialization and as a pastime (to the extent of “wasting time”) is well known. But considering that many social media applications (e.g. Facebook) had their origins in...

Cambodia’s factory literacy programme: Learning while earning

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | Access, Cambodia News, Cases, News, Partnership

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 22 May 2018 by UNESCO | Story Source: UNESCO Bangkok ~ Go to Original Article Burdened by family, social and economic obligations, many women working in factories in Cambodia have had to either forgo basic education opportunities or...

World Bank helps youth of Timor-Leste gain essential skills with education project

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | Access, Cases, News, Partnership, Timor Leste

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 17 August 2018 by Devdiscourse News Desk | Story Source: GEM Report ~ Go to Original Article The project set up nine community learning centers and prepared a curriculum, learning materials. (Image Credit: Pixabay) The Second Chance...

Meet the SDG 4 data: Equal access to all levels of education and training for the most vulnerable people

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | Access, Cases, News, Partnership, Policy and Curriculum

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: August 15, 2018 by Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics | Story Source: GPE (Blog) ~ Go to Original Article Learn about the parity indices used to monitor progress towards target 4.5, which aims to eliminate inequalities...

Cognitive Neuroscience in Practice to Improve Telugu Literacy

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | India News, News, Policy and Curriculum, Research, Teacher

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 17 August 2018 by Radhika Iyengar | Story Source: Earth Institute, Columbia University ~ Go to Original Article This is a Standard(Grade) 1 Telugu literacy textbook used in the state of Telangana, India. Children by the end of Grade...

Online consultation for the 2020 GEM Report: Inclusion and education

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | News, Partnership, Research

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: July 4 2018 by GEM Report | Story Source: GEM Report ~ Go to Original Article Following previous GEM reports on education and the other SDGs (2016), accountability (2017/8), migration and displacement (2019), the 2020 GEM Report...

Promoting change in Arab education: What determined foundations can achieve

by Joseph Bullough | Aug 28, 2018 | News, Policy and Curriculum, Research, Teacher

Photo: (From Author Site URL) Date: 12 August 2018 | by Helen Abadzi | Story Source: Education in the developing countries (Blog) ~ Go to Original Article In June 2018, the United Arab Emirates Ministry (UAE) of Education announced that classes in public primary...

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