2014-12-05 Expand Your Skills for Writing College Papers
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Many students say there is no easy way to write college papers. This may be especially true if English is not your…
2014-11-28 South Korean Students Stressed Over College Entrance Exam
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. More than half a million South Korean students in their final year of high school recently took the university entrance examination. Many…
2014-11-23 US Hosts Record Number of Foreign Students
Almost 900,000 international students are studying in American colleges and universities today. Nearly half of this record number of foreign students are from Asia, mainly China. They are among people…
2014-11-20 Structure Your Essay in Five Paragraph Essay Format
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Many students say there is no easy way to write college papers. This may be especially true if English is not your…
2014-11-20 In Kenyan Prison, Good Grades Are Path to Freedom
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Eighteen people in central Kenya are taking the country’s secondary education test, called the KCSE. Even under normal conditions, this examination can…
2014-11-14 US Teachers Reach Out to Indonesians in ‘Access’
Most people would agree that knowing English is important for moving up in school and also in the workplace. But millions of students in developing countries have little or no…
2014-11-07 Tips for Applying to US Colleges, Part Two
Editor’s note: For part two of our tips for applying to American colleges, we visited George Mason University. George Mason University is the largest public research university in the state…
2014-11-06 Ebola Forces Sierra Leone Students to Learn by Radio
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Ebola has struck hard in Sierra Leone. More than one million children have been unable to attend school because of the…
2014-11-06 Writing Groups Can Help Students with Papers
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Writing an essay or paper for school can feel like – and often is – a big challenge. But an expert from…
2014-10-30 A Kenyan School Feeds Students’ Minds and Stomachs
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Mildred Auma lives in Kibera, a large and poor neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya. Every morning she wakes of her four-year-old son Augustine…
2014-10-15 Having Problems with a School Paper?
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. Today we welcome a return visit from Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, assistant professor of The Practice in Writing Studies at Duke University in North…
2014-10-17 Free Online Test Targets English Learners
A private company has just launched what it calls “the world’s first free standardized English test.” Anyone with an Internet connection can take the test for free. The new exam…
2014-10-24 Tips for Applying to US Colleges
Editor’s note: Here at VOA Learning English we get a lot of questions from our audience about higher education in the United States. So we visited several universities and spoke…
2014-10-16 In Africa, New Technologies Help Teach Women to Read
This is the VOA Learning English Education Report. More and more Africans are using text messages, e-mail and social media to communicate. In Senegal, educators are using new technologies to…
2014-10-09 USAID Provides 231 Million for Girls Education in 5 Countries
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. The Unite States government recently launched a $231 million education effort. The Let Girls Learn program is designed to advance public…