Hundreds of Taiwanese activists stormed the Ministry of Education building in Taipei after midnight on July 31 as anger mounted over the ministry’s efforts to implement controversial changes to high school curriculum guidelines and the death by suicide of one of the young activists the previous day. The occupation – one of several direct actions in the past two years – occurs after… Read More »
This year I was honored to be appointed the CJ Koh Visiting Professor at Singapore’s National Institute of Education. In my research on how different nations define the competencies that young people need to thrive in the 21st century, Singapore occupies a central place because of the comprehensive and balanced nature of the goals that… Read More »
Feature Article of Friday, 31 July 2015 Columnist: Ali, Prince Justice 2015-07-31 In the spirit against corruption and injustice in the institutions located in Sissala Land, I put together this write-up, which focuses on issues at Sissala East District Education Service in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Some of us are passionate about education… Read More »
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Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur says government will continue to support the teaching and learning of ICT to enable the country to embrace and exploit the benefits that it provides for socio-economic development. He said it is, therefore, important that the country’s education system provides students with the requisite skills to keep up with the pace… Read More »
Regional News of Thursday, 30 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-30 In fulfillment of President John Dramani Mahama’s vision to expand access to quality education, construction work is on-going on an initial 73 Community Senior Day High Schools. “Work will begin this year in 50 other locations” Mr. Kwabena Nkansah Asare, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive,… Read More »
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Taipei early on Friday calling for the education minister to resign after a student committed suicide, amid a deepening row over the island’s “mainland China-centric” school curriculum. Several hundred people, some holding white roses and candles, congregated outside the education ministry at midnight to bid farewell to 20-year-old Lin Kuan-hua,… Read More »
The face of modern education?. Flickr/Richard Lee. Some rights reserved. Ansgar Allen (2014) Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason, Basingstoke; Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9781137272850. £65.00. Too many sociological and education studies are published nowadays. The pressure to publish has outrun the need to have something different to say. Wheels are constantly… Read More »
ACROSS the highway from the lawns of Nairobi’s Muthaiga Country Club is Mathare, a slum that stretches as far as the eye can see. Although Mathare has virtually no services like paved streets or sanitation, it has a sizeable and growing number of classrooms. Not because of the state—the slum’s half-million people have just four… Read More »
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Hundreds of Taiwan students stormed the ministry of education compound early on Friday, after one committed suicide earlier in the week, intensifying anti-China protests over textbooks they say are aimed at promoting Beijing’s “one China” policy. About 700 students climbed barricades around the ministry and as of Friday morning about 200 students… Read More »