Menopause, Family Planning, and Cervical Cancer: Women’s Voices from Guatemala
Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women in low- and middle-income countries. Vaccination and screening efforts have garnered much international attention and funding...
View ArticleIs High Impact Digital Learning Possible in Schools without Electricity?
Elementary school students use the adapted interactive whiteboard to bring new light to learning. CyberSmart Africa’s vision is to provide an effective and highly scalable solution for digital learning...
View ArticleThe Millennium Development Goals: Positioning Boys For The Future
I’d like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement – I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done – Sheryl Sandberg Last month, I had an interview with an...
View ArticleInfographic: Contraception changes everything
Access to contraception is something we often take for granted in the United States. But 222 million women in the developing world – who have an unmet need for contraception – still can’t get it. How...
View ArticleIn a Rapidly Changing World, Governments Need to Make Education a Priority
The world needs to step up efforts to educate large numbers of young people to meet the challenges of the 21st century. That was a key message at the Learning for All Symposium, Investing in a...
View ArticleDo teachers skip class because of low pay?
Teacher absenteeism is a huge problem in developing countries, wasting up to a quarter of all spending on primary education in developing countries.The 2014 Education for All Global Monitoring Report,...
View ArticleEducating the Media on Malaria Control
The mass media – electronic, print and now social – play an important role in the fight against malaria. The media reach diverse audiences from villagers to policy makers. Because of their potential...
View ArticleWhy governments don’t like private schools?
Here are a few excerpts from the new textbook delivered to millions of primary school children in Venezuela:1. The first page of each [book] starts with the words “Hugo Chavez: Supreme Commander of the...
View ArticleHow not to improve education in India
Some great analysis from MINT who highlight a new Government of India report, which ranks state education "outcomes".What is odd is that the government rank has a negative correlation with the rankings...
View ArticleUsing SMS to Integrate Maternal and Newborn Health
By Niyi Osamiluyi, Founder/CEO, Premier Medical Systems Nigeria, Ltd. This post is part of the Maternal and Newborn Integration Blog Series, which shares themes of and reactions to the “Integration of...
View ArticleUK teacher unions as legal insurance
Richard Murphy of the University of Texas confirms something that a teacher told me in person just last year - teachers in the UK only join unions because it provides legal insurance in the event of...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Effective Educational Technology Interventions in LMICs
There is enormous interest and investment in the potential of educational technology (edtech) to improve the quality of teaching and learning in low and lower-middle income countries. The primary aim...
View ArticleFighting and Islamic State force 670,000 Syrian children from schools
The simple act of going to school is getting harder and more dangerous for children in Syria. At least 68 attacks were leveled against schools in 2014 and some 670,000 children have recently...
View Article10 myths about girls’ empowerment and mobile learning
I had the chance to share some thoughts at UNESCO’s recent Mobile Learning Week. My presentation explored some myths about girls empowerment and mobile learning and offered suggestions of things to...
View ArticleWhat is ‘gender responsive content’ — and why does it matter?
In line with my last post (10 myths about girls empowerment and mobile learning), I thought I’d also share what we covered during our panel on ‘Gender Sensitive Content and Pedagogy’ during UNESCO and...
View ArticleReflections on Academia and the Ethics of Global Health Education
Global health from a 10,000-ft view. As a fourth-year medical student I recently had the opportunity to spend two months in Guatemala. Partly research, partly clinical work, my time in Guatemala was a...
View ArticleReading on Mobile Phones? mLiteracy Opportunities and Challenges
Recently, the Goethe Institute of Johannesburg hosted an mLiteracy Networking Meeting to examine the opportunities and challenges for mobiles to increase literacy development, especially in Africa. It...
View ArticleDoes spending on education increase learning?
Evidence from the Guardian UK university ranking, which scores universities both on their value-added (final exam scores minus pre-university exam scores - a measure of how much students learnt at...
View ArticleThe learning crisis in Sierra Leone
"Mohammed’s father is an illiterate petty trader. Although he never got any school himself, he has always been determined that Mohammed [13] should get a good education. When Mohammed joined us, we...
View ArticleInnovative education financing modalities from 1862
Apparently payment by results isn’t quite so new. "The reference here is to England’s Payment by Results school reform of 1862. According to the Revised code of the Department of Education in Britain...
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