From a vicious to virtuous cycle: How Zimbabwe Educational Trust is tackling child poverty
By Isobel Roberts Zimbabwe is amongst the poorest countries in the world with extreme poverty reaching 34% in 2019, meaning 5.7 million inhabitants live...
How Covid-19 is highlighting the daily risks faced by refugees
By David Crane Covid-19 has gripped the world for the best part of 2020, and appropriate response plans have been intensely debated by policymakers,...
Making HERstory: How literacy programmes can transform the lives of India’s rural women
By Ria Chauhan Every 8 September, International Literacy Day provides an opportunity to reflect on how education and development initiatives can be used to...
Training youth for employment: How young women in India are still falling through the cracks
By Ria Chauhan Every year on 15 July – World Youth Skills Day – nations around the world echo the importance of ‘skilled youth’...
Race and education: who really benefits from multicultural curriculums?
By Hannah Spruce Before I became a writer, I was a student of contemporary global literature, focusing on postcolonial literature. My classroom was full...
Ensuring girls’ access to education during Covid-19
By Natasha Tariq According to UNESCO, of the 743 million girls around the world out of school and universities due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
A Generation without Education
Can we live up to the promise of an education for all the children of world? Lisa Advani explores the choice between increasing spending...
What Happens When a For-Profit School is No Longer Profitable?
In recent years, the schooling system in developing countries has seen a surge in for-profit institutions. Here, Anja Nielsen questions whether profits should be...
Improving the Quality of Education in Developing Countries
There is no denying that access to education in developing countries has improved and is continuing to improve. However, has this meant that the...
The Baha’I community perseveres under an oppressive Iranian government.
Recently media coverage has highlighted the oppression of the Baha’I community under the Iranian government. Carlos Aguilar analyses this and discusses how the minority...
International Child Labour Rights 2015: Progress and Challenges
On June 12, International Day Against Child Labour was observed under the theme “NO to Child Labour – YES to Quality Education.” The International...
India Calling : Reversing brain drain
Studying abroad, as many Indian students choose to do, causes a whopping $17 billion loss in revenues every year in India. Here, Mridulya Narasimhan examines the idea of reverse...
The fight for universal education and the Nobel Peace Prize
With 2015 fast approaching, education is a development issue that is currently under the spotlight as one of the key Millennium Development Goals. Inma López...
Every child in school: how Westernised education is shrinking knowledge in the 21st century
The globalisation of education is underway, on a scale unprecedented in human history. While its promises are many, Blog Editor Louisa Jones reveals the negative consequences...
Unveiling female realities in south India: An interview with Tamil poet, Rajathi Salma
Like every other woman in her village in Tamil Nadu, at the first sign of puberty Rajathi Salma was confined within the four walls...