Earth Day 2019

It seems frivolous to need to focus just one day on the environment when the threat of climate change means every day must have this at the top of agendas -personal and political. From World Earth Day: “In nature, nothing exists alone.”— Rachel Carson, 1962 Nature’s gifts to our planet are the millions of species

Leaving the Youngest Behind

From the recent INEE newsletter: Leaving the Youngest BehindTheirWorld The stage from birth to five years is the most important in a child’s development, when over 90 per cent of brain development takes place. Along with adequate nutrition, good health care, protection and play, early learning is fundamental for a child’s full development. Learning begins

Aid to pre-primary education: the gap between rhetoric and reality — World Education Blog

By Professor Pauline Rose, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Many donors increasingly voice their recognition of the importance of pre-primary education in their education policy, but few are matching their public statements of support with tangible investment. In the last two years, aid to pre-primary education […]

Accelerated Education Programming

Having developed accelerated learning programmes for young children in Vietnam and Tanzania I have witnessed the benefit of securing all children have their right to education . Many children cannot access education due to living too far away from an education facility, living in poverty, not using the language of instruction, being displaced etc. Accelerated