The overarching theme of the 57th Annual IPM convention was how human resources has the ability to inspire change and growth and it was a success.
As one of their first acts, the Cuban revolutionaries under Fidel Castro made education their priority. Faced with an illiteracy rate of more than 20% when they overthrew the Batista regime in 1959, the members of the new government set about trying to eradicate it altogether. On September 26 1960, Castro declared in the United […]
Hands shoot up enthusiastically around the small class of nine-year-olds. They seem to have got the hang of the Roman numerals their teacher is chalking on the blackboard. The children could be nine-year-olds anywhere if it weren’t for their red scarves, but their teacher looks young, even for a trainee. Giraldo Del Pino, it turns […]
The Aga Khan Univerisity in the UK organized a conference last month to look at Muslim Education around the world. The conference included sessions on university governance and reforms. Women in higher education, as well as teaching and research and international partnerships, were also on the agenda.
The fierce debate about calls for an academic boycott of Israel has been stimulated afresh by the dismissal of two Israeli scholars from the editorial boards of learned journals.