A survey conducted by Microsoft in Europe found that young girls are interested in pursuing STEM subjects at age 11 and then rapidly lose interest in their teens. The innumerable reasons for girls not entering STEM industries range from peer pressure, to a lack of role models and parental support, to a general difficulty in...
“Knowledge gives discipline, from discipline comes worthiness, from worthiness, one gets wealth, from wealth one does good deeds, and from that comes joy.” This Sanskrit shloka was written in 200 BCE and holds true today, in that education is all-empowering and pivotal to building sustainable communities.
Historically, sections of society had deliberately limited access...
The Education Team’s focus for October and November is Equal Access, which encompasses SDG Targets 4.2 & 4.5. Our November ‟Notes from the Field” focus on the ‟E” and ‟M” of STEM Education: Engineering and Math – traditionally fields where girls and women have been discouraged from entering, thereby denying them equal access to a...
‟Never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” ~ Rahm Emanuel
The COVID-19 pandemic has created the largest disruption of education systems in history,
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up. Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how...
The Education Team focus for October and November is Equal Access, which encompasses SDG Targets 4.2 & 4.5. Our October ‟Notes from the Field” focus on the ‟S” and ‟T” of STEM Education: Science and Technology – traditionally fields where girls and women have been discouraged from entering, thereby denying them equal access to a...