Over half of the reduction in the global mortality of children under 5 years of age is linked to increased education among females of reproductive age, says a reports from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, published in the medical journal The Lancet. Sixteen...
UNESCO welcomes the focus of the 2011 Action Week led by the Global Campaign for Education on Women and Girls’ Education.
As the slogan of the week goes, “It is a Right, Make it Right! Education for Girls and Women Now.”We can get it right with strong political will, smart policies and adequate...
Singapore focuses strongly on education and equips this stance with well-qualified teachers and school administrators, as well as world-class schooling facilities. Your child’s education in Singapore is assuredly of international standards. Currently, there are about 5 nurseries and playschools, 7...
Yet some progress is being made, if only slowly. A 1990 plan by the international community--in the U.N. World Summit for Children--to achieve universal primary education by 2000 has been only mildly successful. In the intervening 10 years, the number of out-of-school children dropped 20 percent...
"In this age of the skilled worker, not educating women is immediately cutting off 50 percent of your competitiveness as a country," says Pat Utomi, one of Nigeria's leading economists and a professor at the Lagos Business School. "You focus on the girls, because there has been a deliberate neglect...
LAGOS, Nigeria (WOMENSNEWS)--She wants to be an engineer, but for now Blessing Ugwu works at a wooden stand over a gutter clogged with bricks and garbage. From dawn to well after dusk, the 12-year-old sells eggs, toilet paper, tinned mackerel and 20-cent soda you drink on the spot or pay extra for...
