2014-03-20 Community Colleges in the United States
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. Suppose you are thinking about attending college in the United States, but perhaps you might not be ready for a university…
2014-03-13 American Universities offer Scholarship for Engineering Students
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. American colleges and universities have a new program to give foreign engineering students a chance to study and work in the…
2014-03-06 Dance Offers Street Children Path to Education
From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. American LaMar Baylor spends most of his time in New York City, he works as a performer in the Broadway musical…
2014-02-27 Mother, Son Team Up to Fight Somalia Poverty
This is the Education Report. Sahnun Mohamud has never lived in Somalia, but the 21-year-old student has help established an organization that supports aid projects for the east-African country. Sahnun…
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.…