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"Education" or "Schooling"??
(Opinions)
22-10-2011
by Akshyata Uprety
Educating or Schooling?
The fundamental assumption that we have internalized regarding "education" has often been confused with a mere theory of "schooling." Developing countries around the world are celebrating the delight of increase in the...
1GOAL: Education for All
(Poetry)
29-07-2011
by David Kapp
1GOAL: Education for All
72 million children
around the world
do not go to school
Can you imagine that
774 million adults
are not able
to read and write
Can you imagine that
These children and adults
are denied their right...
A New Education
(Opinions)
25-12-2011
by Robbie
As a 15 year old student attending a school in Australia, I am well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of modern education. Yet increasingly we are seeing a new type of education - one that takes into account individual learning styles and the...
Child Labour- a Dehumanizing Slave Master
(Opinions)
26-06-2011
by Omoruyi Osaretin Samuel
Child labour is something common in Africa and Nigeria where I come from because of poverty. Here, most families live below the poverty line, and as a result, malnutrition is not uncommon in Africa. The wealth of the nations is not evenly...
Education ? What do we need to boost the sector
(Opinions)
3-06-2011
by Darpan Mahajan
“I bow to my teacher who has opened my eyes blinded by the darkness of ignorance, with enlightening rays of knowledge”
As times change, we experience Globalization and Global warming, economic collaboration and meteoric inflation, with the...
Educational Barrier
(Poetry)
17-02-2011
by TEMIDAYO OLUWAFEMI GREATS
I've stayed here too long
This dunghill l turned home
Please pity my age
Running faster than I can catch
Count me among your freed men
Slot me in this batch
That l may go this rainy season
You WAEC has turned me a weak vessel
I have lost...
Human Capital vs Working Capital
(Opinions)
28-10-2011
by Mayang Arum Anjar Rizky
Is there any correlation between education and employment? For a new emerging country like Indonesia, it may be insignificantly correlated.
Education is often judged as the root of way out from poverty, and to avoid poverty, we need to jump...
I Believe In Yesterday...
(Poetry)
20-06-2011
by 'Jide Oluwafemi Jinadu
Yesterday, when I was a kid
I believed in everything
I believed that tomorrow was gonna be alright
I believed in my dreams
I believed in my friends and parents
And most importantly
I believed in God.
I know that my today -
A product of...
Is there Hope for African Youths in 2012?
(Opinions)
14-01-2012
by Anthony Lukwesa
I opened my eyes very early in the morning on the 1st of January, 2012, then all of a sudden...I was scared to get out of my bed. You see, dear leader, I am a youth with so much energy, a graduate, an optimist and a dreamer. However, looking at...
Just as well (they can’t attend)
(Poetry)
29-07-2011
by David Kapp
Just as well (they can’t attend)
Just as well
they can’t attend
I declare in response
to hearing yet another
tale about the fiefdom
Our primary school kids
can’t attend some game
or the other (your guess)
forbidden as it were
by...
Let us enable children the Right to Education
(Opinions)
13-06-2011
by Niranjan Meegammana
In the face of emerging global challenges including climatic change, heath, economic crisis and cultural issues, education remains the foundation for innovation and the advancement of human kind. Hence it is important for us to respond to these...
The factory children
(Poetry)
22-04-2011
by Maja
They’re not the happiest bunch
They think that it’s unfair
Not taking a break for lunch
Because they really care
Two-hundred and fifty thousand
They all protest, mad
People wish it hadn’t happened
But, guess what, IT HAD
They’ve...
The Rising Star
(Poetry)
23-02-2011
by Ayo Morakinyo
It’s a new day in a new month
The sun seemed a little impatient,
Scorching my back from beneath the clouds
The sky seemed pale and grey
As the rising star raised himself up
It’s another boring morning
He thanked his creator surely
And...
Use Positive thinking
(Opinions)
26-09-2011
by Prince Wilson
Use Positive Thinking
We all have our fears in life. But
the biggest of all fears is the
fear of failing. Sometimes, one
of the great battles we face in
life is destined to pressure us to
fail. The challenges will light up
the negative...
When Will the Injustice End: Child Labor and Rights
(Opinions)
29-06-2011
by Amiya
Where I live, child labor is nothing out of the ordinary. Practically every single household in Bangladesh employs underaged domestic help. On the streets, pedestrians are ever so frequently greeted by children with armfuls of flowers or books,...
Young vendors in Egypt
(Short Story)
11-01-2012
by Jenna Carter
I just recently got home from a ten day adventure to Egypt. It was really sad seeing all the young vendors everywhere. It really puts how young people are having to drop out of school to work to support their families in perspective....
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