Education

World Bank to Finance 19 Centers of Excellence to Help Transform Science, Technology, and Higher Education in Africa

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$150 million to finance 19 university-based Centers of Excellence in seven countries in West and Central Africa. These competitively selected centers will receive funding for advanced...

Education International joins global leaders to launch Emergency Coalition

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New US$3.8 Million Grant for Djibouti to Support Improved Access to Education

The World Bank Group and the Government of Djibouti signed a US$3.8 million grant to support the government’s Access to Quality Education Project. The grant is designed to support government efforts to improve the overall quality and capacity of its...

Dublin: Different struggles, same goals for women in education

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Mary Metcalfe, Chairperson of the Open Society Foundations' Education Advisory Board

Education International’s World Women's Conference 7-9 April 2014 in Dublin, Ireland

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The Incompetence of Twentieth Century Science Education

A great, and largely continuing catastrophe for all modern science throughout the world, had begun, in Paris, France, at the opening of the Twentieth Century. It had been launched by a somewhat, scientifically weak-minded David Hilbert, delivered from...

UNICEF: Prioritize children to speed up Roma inclusion in Europe

On the eve of the third Roma summit in Brussels, UNICEF calls on European governments to firmly place children at the centre of Roma inclusion policies.

EI surveys teachers’ working conditions

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