Tag: education
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Girls’ Education Is Key To Fighting Global Poverty
Whether you go to school should not depend on your gender. Yet for 130million girls around the world, being female means they miss out on an education. The number of girls denied basic schooling is staggering – they would make up the tenth largest country in terms of population. This must end. Not only is…
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Open innovation in the public sector
Learning from others’ experience True citizen expansion implies enriching the elements that lead to a rational synthesis generated by both technical and non-technical knowledge. For instance, the Brazilian platform CidadeDemocrática is an example of collective participation that takes advantage of the network and turns citizen demands into primary sources of information and solution to problems. Another model…
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Abu Dhabi :Entrepreneurship and innovation must be taught at UAE universities
ABU DHABI //Entrepreneurship and innovation need to be key subjects taught at universities and colleges to best equip students for life outside of education and make them attractive to potential employers. Last year, the Ministry of Education began to implement classes in these subjects as part of an optional curriculum at three federal and 12…