The pandemic’s impact on government budgets calls for renewed commitment to the SDGs
By Hyun H. Son, Véronique Salze-Lozac’h COVID-19 has brought unprecedented economic and development challenges but it also offers opportunities for financing solutions to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. As countries continue to battle COVID-19, massive fiscal stimulus packages have helped save lives and protect livelihoods in many economies. However, they have come with a hefty price […]
Why school closure is a last resort
By Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Sungsup Ra, Ryotaro Hayashi School reopening should be done on a risk-based approach – with situations closely monitored, particularly for the effect of COVID-19 variants – and school closure be used as a last resort. Schools have been fully or partially closed for more than a year in many developing countries. The world’s longest […]
Children swap classrooms for beach lessons in Spain
LOS NIETOS, Spain (Reuters) – Does having school at the beach sound like a dream? After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, one school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing just that, trying to combine clear air and a new way of teaching.
Getting higher education governance right in South Asia
By Sungsup Ra, Jung Cheol Shin, Unika Shrestha Effective higher education systems are critical for countries to advance. In South Asia, reforming governance structures and practices is a crucial step Higher education systems in South Asia have not kept pace with the changing requirements of the modern global economy. With increasing progress at the secondary level, demand for […]
Why aren’t students in Asia getting the education they need?
By Kirsty Newman, Elisabetta Gentile Local decision makers, civil society, teachers, and parents need to be engaged with and driving reforms if teaching is going to shift sufficiently to tackle Asia’s learning crisis. Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a learning crisis with vast swathes of the world’s children not even learning to read and the fallout of […]
Weaving a sustainable future for indigenous students
By Lynnette Perez In the southern Philippines, a culture-based senior high school program is serving the Tboli community with an innovated approach to education. For several decades, indigenous peoples in the Philippines have advocated for change in the country’s basic education curriculum to make it relevant and meaningful to their diverse educational and cultural context. […]
Blending education and technology to help schools through the pandemic
By Brajesh Panth, Jeffrey Jian Xu Here are five key areas where EdTech solutions can help countries transition their short-term education solutions to the medium and long-term. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments around the world to find innovative and practical approaches to improve teaching and learning. An unprecedented surge in online learning provides opportunities to reimagine […]
New technology helping rebuild Nepal’s quake-hit schools better, and faster
By Naresh Giri Effective project implementation demands real-time monitoring of construction progress and quality in the field. Thanks to technology, real-time monitoring of development projects is now possible, helping project managers address the multiple challenges of implementing post-disaster emergency projects. A good example is using a web-based project monitoring information system (MIS) to closely follow progress […]
University-industry collaboration at the heart of knowledge-based economic growth
By Brajesh Panth, Shanti Jagannathan The Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China offer 4 lessons for developing countries to strengthen their higher education systems and innovation capacities. Educated and skilled human resources are the backbone that help to build innovative capacities in economies as they move from factor-driven to efficiency-driven and then to knowledge-driven […]
