Reports of Dr. Pauline Dixon
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Rethink needed as global education policy fails to meet its goals
For nearly 25 years, the international community has focussed on a global education strategy to ensure basic education is available to all by 2015. But it is clear that none of its goals will be achieved globally. However, new ones are already being set. Some experts argue that this global ...
South Africa prosperity hangs on education drive
South Africa spends a bigger share of its gross domestic product on education than any other country in Africa. Yet student achievement is lower than in most of its regional neighbours. South Africa is facing an education crisis and it has failed to uphold former President Nelson Mandela’s driving vision ...
The importance of education in post-conflict Africa
Providing young people access to education is vital in the aftermath of war. Not only do educational opportunities facilitate an easier return to normal life but skills developed through education are necessary for employment and economic prosperity. Lack of education for the young increases the likelihood of a return to ...
New funding provides lifeline for low-cost schools
Parents in the world’s slum areas are choosing to pay for their children’s education rather than rely on the state. They see this as a way out of poverty. But expansion and development of these low-cost private schools has been cramped by a lack of funding. Now a new breed ...
Islamist President Mohamed Morsi faces literacy challenge in Egypt’s move to democracy
Egypt's newly-elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi faces many challenges as he leads his country into a new era of democracy. Not least among his immediate tasks will be to address Egypt's literacy rates and the lack of jobs for its many young people where youth unemployment runs at about 24 ...
How can international aid for education reach the poorest?
Millions of dollars of international aid money destined for educational projects and schools in developing countries have ‘gone missing’. Fraud and corruption is rife and siphons off cash which would have provided an education for the young in emerging countries. Aid can encourage dependency and is part of the problem ...
Flexi schooling, home schooling and virtual schools - old education methods combine with technology to become the new reality
Harvard business theorists predict that 'one quarter of all high school courses in the United States will be online by 2016 and one half by 2019'. And the increasingly global coverage of the internet means many youngsters in emerging countries will be able to access knowledge so far denied to ...
Training the professional elite - the answer to Middle East calm?
Saudi Arabia has rolled out a huge programme of spending on higher education which aims, the government says, to correct a past failure to focus on the right skills and right education. But will scholarships costing billions of US dollars have the desired effect of boosting the numbers of its ...
