In a speech at the reopening of Kabul University in 1993, in the midst of a bitter civil war, Abddul Ali Mazari, founder of the Hezb-e-Wahdat political party spoke out on a conundrum that had been occupying his mind for some time. He quoted four famous Hadis (sayings) of Mohammad the Islamic prophet, who had emphasised the importance of education for all, including women. Then, Read More

Thousands of people marched in Cape Town on Friday because children are not safe at many Western Cape schools. Nongovernmental organisation Equal Education led a march‚ which included civil groups and teachers unions‚ to the gates of Parliament where they delivered a memorandum to the national departments of education‚ police‚ social development and finance. The demands included better allocation of Read More

UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report which came out this week points out to the various problems in the education system in India. The report calls high stakes tests and tuition as harmful for education in India. “There is extensive evidence showing that high-stakes tests based on narrow performance measures can encourage efforts to ‘game the system’, negatively impacting on learning and disproportionately Read More

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani private schools, charitable institutions, and religious seminaries are stepping in to supplement government-run schools to help deal with the education needs of a fast-growing nation with an estimated 50 million school-age children. Despite 220,000 schools nationwide, Pakistan has over 20 million out-of-school children, according to a 2016 government report. The government has pumped money into schooling, Read More

Members work on laptop computers in a conference room at the Embarcadero WeWork Cos Inc. offices in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. WeWork has focused its attention on Asia since 2016 with the opening of its first facility in Shanghai amid booming demand for flexible work spaces. Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg For many young adults, the process Read More

Yang Zixuan, 8, a student at Beijing No 2 Experimental Primary School learns English through VIPKID online courses. [Photo provided to China Daily] China’s online education sector has been eyed by the capital market as emerging and promising, Securities Times reported Monday, citing multiple industry sources. An unidentified analyst with a Shanghai broker said since 2014, online education companies have Read More

Among the top 10 Indian schools, all except IIT Bombay lost their ground. Photo: Hindustan Times New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay emerged the best Indian university in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asian University Rankings for 2018, which saw most of the top Indian schools slipping in their rankings in Asia. IIT Bombay was ranked 34th in Asia, followed Read More

IIT Bombay is the only one among Indian universities ranked in the top 100 to move up in the QS rankings. Photo: Hindustan Times $30 million What is it? The amount raised by online financial marketplace BankBazaar from Experian, the UK-based credit rating agency and information management company, in Series D funding. Why is it important? It is the second significant funding round Read More

Union Minister and Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) chief Upendra Kushwaha said the Centre would provide all help to Bihar government to improve the education sector in the state. “We want to tell the Bihar government that the state has lagged behind for past 37 years in improving education sector. It is difficult to rectify the mistakes of 37 years Read More

Girls sit amid the ruins of a primary school burned down in fighting at the Malakal protection of civilians site in South Sudan. Photograph: George/Unicef South Sudan has been named as the toughest nation in the world for girls to receive an education, with nearly three-quarters failing to attend even primary school, according to an index published this week. Central African Read More