2014-02-20 Reports says Poor Quality Education Costing Billions Every Year
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Recently, there have been efforts to make sure children in Africa get a good strong education. But a new report says…
2014-01-30 Pakistan Honors Youth Who Died Saving Students
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Pakistani officials have announced plans to name a school and a sports center for student who stopped a suicide bomber. The…
2014-01-23 Afghan Women Work, Learn and Make Gains in Former Taliban Base
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Security risks are said to be widespread in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar. Yet the number of women working in…
2014-01-16 Nigeria Universities reopen After Strike
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Public universities in Nigeria have reopened after a nearly six-month long strike by teachers. In the city of Bauchi, teachers are…
2014-01-09 Northern Nigeria Launches Massive Literacy Campaign
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Nigeria has one of the world’s highest rates of people who can not read or write, but a government agency is…
2014-01-02 Students Help Imagine Interactive Smithsonian Exhibit
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. It was not just another day in a classroom recently for some young people in Washington D.C. Student volunteers visited the…
2013-12-12 UNHCR Says More than 1 Million Syrian Children are Refugees
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The United Nations is warning that Syrian children are suffering as a result of the country’s nearly three year-long conflict. It…
2013-12-26 Study Finds Music Lessons Do Not Make Children Smarter
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a…
2013-12-05 Blair Urges UN to Support Tolerance Programs
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Former British prime minister Tony Blair recently urged governments around the world to support tolerance programs for young people. Mr Blair…
2013-11-28 Study Reveals Economic Impact of Uneducated Children
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. A new study finds a lack of education for young children in developing nations seriously affects the country’s economic progress. The…
2013-11-14 US to Help Boost Haiti’s Education System
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Haiti is among the poorest nations in the world, only about half the children in the country go to primary school.…
2013-11-21 Pakistani Private Schools Ban Memoir by Malala
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Private schools in Pakistan have banned a book written by Malala Yousafzai from school libraries. The school’s officials say parts of…
2013-11-07 American English Becoming More Popular in Hong Kong
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. People in Hong Kong speak a rich mixture of languages. Hong Kong was a British colony for more than 156 years…
2013-10-31 Cambodian School Educates New Generation of Social Workers
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Cambodia has about 3,000 recognized non-profit groups. Some work on issues such as violence against women and human trafficking. But few…
2013-10-17 Liberia Education Program Targets Illiterate Women
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. A United Nations agency estimates that 516 million of the world’s women can not read and write. The U.N. Education, Scientific…