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Mr.Naganathan: “Aspiring Teachers Are Awarded Degrees but Not Trained for the Profession”
By: Sriram NaganathanAs a workforce, teachers in India face four challenges.The first is t ...
Jeffrey Immelt - Eminent Voices
Chairman and CEO of General Electric, a company committed to developing educational initiatives.
Rex Tillerson - Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil Corporation
R.Tillerson discusses the group’s historical record for education and the most important 21st ce ...
Shelly Esque - President of the Intel Foundation
Shelly Esque describes the group’s involvement in education transformation around the world. She ...
Learning World
WISE Awards for Educational Innovation
School-Business Partnerships (Morocco) - In Morocco, the Al Jisr organization is getting the bus ...
Alternative teaching
Student-centred education, where pupils have their say about what they learn, is gaining momentu ...
Alternative teaching
In the north of Italy, a nursery school has won international recognition. At this school, chi ...
Alternative teaching
At the Rishi Valley School in India's state of Andhra Pradesh the atmosphere is one of peac ...
Business & Education
At the Kaiko academy west of Ten ligneyo, students learn corporate thinking from a very young ...
Stars and stripes
Charter schools are privately managed but open to the public. These profit making enterprises ...
Press release
Global Quest Underway to Identify Education Visionary
Nominations open for the 2012 WISE Prize for Education Doha, Qatar, Fe ...
WISE Awards 2011: Six Winning Projects Announced Recognizing On-The-Ground Innovations in Education
Doha, Qatar, September 27, 2011: A Jury appointed by The World Innovation Summit for Education ( ...
Global Summit explores innovative education funding options as solution to economic recovery
The funding challenges facing education systems were examined today at the World Innovation Summ ...
2nd World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE - opens in Doha
EDUCATION SUMMIT URGES WORLD LEADERS TO PLACE EDUCATION AT TOP OF AGENDA The second World Innova ...
2nd World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE - addresses 21st century educational challenges
The second World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE - is taking place in Doha, Qatar, from 7 ...
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah officially launches the first World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE
Guest of Honour, Irina Bokova, newly elected UNESCO Director-General addresses 1,000 opinion lea ...
World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE programme to address 21st century educational challenges
Doha - November 15th, 2009. Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al-Missned, Chair of Qatar Fo ...
High-profile international figures to take part in the first World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE
Please click on the following link to access the full version of the Digital Press Release: ...
WISE AWARDS to Recognize Outstanding Innovation in Education
Qatar Foundation Launches the First Ever WISE AWARDS to Recognise Outstanding Innovation in Educ ...
1,000 Global Leaders To Attend The First Ever World Innovation Summit For Education
1,000 Global Leaders To Attend The First EverWorld Innovation Summit for EducationWISE 200 ...
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WISE Haiti Case Study: Tipa Tipa
In Haiti, the innovative Tipa Tipa method trains teachers of pre-school children in ...
WISE Focus 1.4: School-Business Partnerships: A Moroccan School Adoption Scheme
Mr. Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi is Chairman and CEO of Injaz Al Maghrib and Founder of Al Jisr Scho ...
Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi - School-Business Partnerships
At the 2011 WISE Summit, interviews were conducted with the holders of this year’s six winning p ...
Debate on stage - Closing Plenary Session
The panel discusses the role of social entrepreneurs, private sector cooperation, teacher traini ...
Debates
Role of the Media in Education: "We try to inform debates, confront different points of view"
Education journalists from international and national media outlets discuss the role of the medi ...
Exploring Alternative Financing in Developing Countries: "If we don't have the right systems in place, resources will not deliver the desired outcomes"
Non-state actors, including private sector organization and international and domestic NGOs are ...
Reforming Education - Mission Impossible: "Risk aversion can be overcome when we decide to reward genuine efforts, alternative concepts"
In this WISE 2011 Summit debate, high-level panelists from Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan dis ...
Overcoming Challenges: What Lessons Can We Learn from Other Sectors?
Development challenges are often most effectively addressed through multi-sectoral strategies.&n ...
New Perspectives for the Media in 21st Century Education
Session DescriptionWhat are the development strategies of major international media groups in th ...
Multistakeholder Partnerships in Education
While the private sector has long participated to an extent in public education, “Multistakehold ...
Appraising the Impact of ICT
Session DescriptionMany advocates of technology encourage its use across the curriculum, but we ...
Exploring Innovative Trends: The Future of Learning
It is vital to explore the most innovative educational research and practices in both developed ...
Funding Education: New Models for our Times
With increasing numbers of students at every level of education, the challenges of funding and t ...
Improving Education Systems
The “Future of Education” must be built on existing foundations and therefore involves improving ...
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Social entrepreneurship has led to new models and collaborations that not only provide authentic ...
Breakout Session: Leadership Models
Session descriptionLeadership plays a crucial role in determining the success or failure of inst ...
Plenary Session: Closing
"I want to congratulate WISE for its leadership not only in education but in innovation in educa ...
News
MDG Session at WISE Focuses on Universal Primary Education
A high-level interactive discussion on ‘Innovative mechanisms and partnerships for international ...
Global Leaders to Gather for the WISE Summit
The WISE Summit brings together a diverse range of global leaders, with more than 160 speakers f ...
3 Days, 60 Sessions, 150 Speakers: the WISE 2011 Program is Now Available
The full program for WISE 2011 is now available here. This innovative, wide-ranging p ...
WISE Explores Innovative Education Funding Options as Solution to Economic Recovery
The funding challenges facing education systems were examined at the WISE 2010 Summit attended b ...
1,250 Delegates at the 2010 Summit
The delegates represent a wide range of professional backgrounds – academic institutions,interna ...
Biography
Mr. Riel MILLER
For 30 years Riel Miller’s work has concentrated on how to use the future to assess and di ...
Mr. Peter CASSELLS
Peter Cassells is Executive Director of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Interv ...
Dr Michèle PIERRE-LOUIS
Since her return to Haiti in 1976 after her studying abroad and obtaining an M.A. in Econ ...
Ms. Catherine NGUGI
Catherine Ngugi is the Project Director of Open Educational Resources (OER Africa), a Said ...
Dr. Florence TOBO LOBE
Dr. Florence Tobo Lobe was born into a Protestant family of ten. Her late loving parents e ...
Ms. Reeta ROY
Reeta Roy is President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, an independent, private found ...
Mr. Iqbal NOOR ALI
Iqbal Noor Ali joined the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in 1979, and was appointed S ...
Mr. Anand KUMAR
Anand Kumar is a respected mathematics teacher. He had the opportunity to study at Cambrid ...
Mr. Salah-Eddine KANDRI
Salah-Eddine Kandri is currently the Manager for Consumer Services at the International Fi ...
Ms. Carol BELLAMY
Carol Bellamy presently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Global Partne ...
Dr Tarek SHAWKI
Tarek Galal Shawki (born June 12, 1957 in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director of UNESCO's Regional Bur ...
Mr. Mourad EZZINE
Mourad Ezzine is the Education Sector Manager, Human Development Department in the Middle East a ...
Ms Mary E. Kirk
Mary E. Kirk is the Institute of International Education's Vice President for Student Exchanges. ...
Mr Ramu Damodaran
Ramu Damodaran is Deputy Director for Partnerships and Public Engagement in the United Nations D ...
Mr Anthony SALCITO
As Vice-President of Education for Microsoft Corp.’s Worldwide Public Sector organization, ...
Dr Paul Kim
Dr. Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford University School of Ed ...
Ms Svava Bjarnason
Svava Bjarnason is the Senior Education Specialist at the International Finance Corporation’s (I ...
Mr Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes is President and CEO of New Visions for Public Schools, a leader of public school ...
Web Documentary
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School-Business Partnerships
The mission of School-Business Partnerships is to improve the quality of education by mobilizing ...
Escuelas del Bicentenario
Escuelas del Bicentenario seeks to improve the quality of education in disadvantaged public scho ...
Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL)
The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program transforms learning by connecting learner ...
Espacios para Crecer (Spaces for Growth)
Espacios para Crecer (EpC) is an innovative transitional education programme designed to rescue ...
The Bilingual Education Continuum in Burkina Faso
The Bilingual Education Continuum is a three-level programme designed and implemented by the Swi ...
Una Laptop por Niño (One Laptop per Child)
Una Laptop por Niño (One Laptop per Child) aims to transform Peruvian education by improving equ ...
Project Nanhi Kali
In India, girls are still considered a liability and an economic burden on the family, remaining ...
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RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a non-profit institution that helps improve policy and decisi ...