It was not just another day in a classroom recently for some young people in Washington D.C. These student volunteers visited the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to test a new program. Some students explored the mysteries of human bones. Other students examined an insect under amicroscope. The student volunteers were among the first to help […]
Nigeria has one of the world’s highest rates of people who cannot read or write. But a government agency is taking steps to educate more than 400,000 Nigerians in Kano State. The Kano State Agency for Mass Education has set high goals for literacy, the ability to read and write. Minister of States for Education Nyesom […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Public universities in Nigeria have re-opened after a nearly six-month long strike by teachers. Repeated strikes can add months, even years, to the time it takes a student to finish a study program. Students at public universities across Nigeria say they are worried about exams and completing […]
Security risks are said to be widespread in the southern Afghan Province of Kandahar. Yet the number of women working in Kandahar has risen during the past year. The provincial government employs more than 1,150 women, most of them as teachers. That is up from about 900 female teachers last year. Kandahar is the former […]
Recently, there have been increased efforts to make sure children in Africa get a good, strong education. But a new report says governments are losing about $129 billion dollars every year on poor quality education. As a result, about one in four students in poor countries cannot read a complete sentence. That represents about 175 million young […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Community colleges in the United States have a lot to offer. Educators say these two-year colleges may be a good choice for international students who have finished secondary school and want to study in the US. Today we tell about a program for such students. It is called […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. South Africa has 11 official languages. If you want to say “hello,” it’s “sawubona” in Zulu, and “hallo” in Afrikaans. Now, South African schoolchildren may start using “ni hao” to say “hello.” The country’s education ministry hopes to add Mandarin language classes in some schools. Mandarin is […]
For VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Thousands of young people in Senegal attend and live at religious schools called daaras. These schools accept only boys. The students are called talibe’ and they study the Koran. Some daaras force students to ask strangers on the street for money and food. The government had promised […]
The reported rape of a six-year-old student at a well-know school in Jakarta has received widespread media attention in Indonesia. The costly Jakarta International School, or JSI, serves many children of diplomats and wealthy foreign families. Indonesian police have arrested several suspects in connection with the incident reported in early April. Similar reports of sexual abuse at […]
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Growing up can be hard in poor neighborhoods where crime is common. That is the situation Marco Antonio Aguilar faced when he started at Garfield High School in Los Angeles, California. The boy hated school. He says he had the wrong friends, often missed classes and even got into […]