An update on the use of e-readers in Africa | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 0 views
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One result is that they deliberately decided to complement the delivery of the devices with extensive engagement with local stakeholder groups, did a lot of capacity building with teachers and trainers, and tried to help align what they were doing with what was happening in the formal education system.
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hat said, there are very real concerns in some quarters that e-book initiatives from the 'West', however well-intentioned, are potentially an important tool contributing to a subtle form of, for lack of a better term, cultural imperialism. Worldreader is apparently working on a platform for African authors and publishers to be able to distribute their works electronically, so that it will be easier for students to read books from local authors, consistent with the learning goals of local school systems. While not downplaying the difficulties of getting large educational publishers to make their content available digitally for use by students in Africa, this desire to help promote digital marketplaces for African reading materials is perhaps the most ambitious aspect to the Worldreader initiative.
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When they went back and asked, "what if content was digitized and made available at $1/book?", many people suddenly got very interested.
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AFP: Boko Haram kills 40 students in Nigeria college dorm - 0 views
TWB Millennium Development Ambassador transforms lives | Teachers Without Borders - 2 views
What Are Human Rights? - 0 views
West Africa: Nigerians Have Legal Right to Education, Ecowas Court Rules - 0 views
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Abuja — In a dramatic and ground-breaking decision, the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja has declared that all Nigerians are entitled to education as a legal and human right. The court said that the right to education can be enforced before the court and dismissed all objections brought by the Federal Government, through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), that education is "a mere directive policy of the government and not a legal entitlement of the citizens."
Asabe Yar'Adua Lauds Teachers - 0 views
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She said this at the Award of Millennium Development Ambassador (MDA) organised by Teachers Without Borders (TWB), an international Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) dedicated to advancing human welfare through teacher professional development and community education hosted in Abuja where she was given an award in recognition of her efforts in the foundation.
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She stressed that teachers constitute the cornerstone in building a world without borders and other forms of barriers that retard growth, development interactions and integration of thr world.
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She however lamented that the society has a lot to do to place teachers on a better pedestal, particularly in developing countries . Africa Regional Coordinator, Raphael Ogar Oko , said TWB works to support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) through the Millennium Development Ambassadors (MDA)and Millennium Development Volunteers (MDV) program.
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Bauchi to re-introduce teacher training colleges - 0 views
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The Bauchi State government is to reintroduce teacher training colleges in the state with the aim of reviving the standard of education.
FG phases out old senior secondary education curriculum Sept *Secondary school teachers... - 0 views
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THE Federal Government has said that the old Senior Secondary Education curriculum will be phased out in September, 2011 to give way for the implementation of the New Senior Secondary Education curriculum developed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC).
Pakistan declares 'education emergency' « World Education Blog - 0 views
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Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global learning goals has been documented in the Education for All Global Monitoring Report.
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the Pakistan Education Task Force says the country “is in the midst of an educational emergency with disastrous human and economic consequences.”
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The report quotes the 2010 Global Monitoring Report’s finding that “30% of Pakistanis live in extreme educational poverty – having received less than two years of education.”
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Which countries spend more on arms than primary schools? | News | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
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"When wars break out, international attention and media reporting invariably focus on the most immediate images of human suffering. Yet behind these images is a hidden crisis. Across many of the world's poorest countries, armed conflict is destroying not just school infrastructure, but the hopes and ambitions of generations of children."
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According to the report's data, 21 developing countries spend more on arms than on primary schools. Meanwhile, only 2% of humanitarian aid goes towards education (with the vast majority of aid requests for education in conflict-affected states left unfulfilled).
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The consequences are stark. In poor countries affected by conflict: 28 million children of primary school age are out of school (42% of the world's total) a child is twice as likely to die before their fifth birthday (compared with a child born in a poor but stable country) about 30% of the young people aged 15-24 are illiterate (compared with 7% in other poor countries)
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