Virtual field trips bring students face-to-face with Earths most fragile ecosystems hechingerreport.org/virtual-field-… via The Hechinger Report #VR #EdTech

How a small Turkish city successfully absorbed half a million migrants theguardian.com/cities/2019/ju…

Companies are realizing the perils of #DegreeInflation. EY did their own internal assessment, learned that screening on degrees was "too blunt an approach," and decided that a diploma will "no longer act as a barrier to getting a foot in the door." huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/07/ern…

Returns to education were highest for primary education and lower for subsequent levels but recent evidence suggests that the pattern has changed. Since the 1980s, returns to schooling have increased and returns to higher education have increased the most. worldbank.org/en/events/2019…

A new blog post in India on our publication with Diego Ambasz Maria Ustinova Alberto Treves and Peter Barrett. World Bank Education Harry A. Patrinos

I should be qualified to comment on the covid-19 pandemic. I'm a computational/system biologist working on infectious diseases and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling' unit. In this thread, I will summarise what I believe I (don't) know. (1/12)

The Crucial Role of Teachers hpatrinos.com/2021/10/25/the…

Learning losses due to #COVID19 school closures in Cambodia: substantial for grade 6 students as average achievement levels in 2021 are 0.30-0.75 standard deviations lower than the 2016 averages unicef.org/cambodia/sites…

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard is giving away the company. He and his family have transferred all the company’s voting stock into a trust, with the rest of the shares going to a nonprofit. Here's the letter from Yvon:

Interesting study on gender bias in US congress that resonates "We find that legislators who interacted with both Yellen & at least one other male Fed chair over this period interrupt Yellen more, and interact with her using more aggressive tones." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Every consultant in the world: 😱 I am sure that some of the data is not correct (though since Bing AI has sources, you can check), but this feels like magic. Absolutely unbelievable.

Possible to deliver free & quality higher education to all in #India ? Read forward thinking Sanjeev Sanyal views expanding on his recent contributions at the Sannam S4 Group Acumen Global Gateway Summit in New Delhi on how India has a leapfrog opportunity to innovate higher education

Yesterday I posted my article on how higher education is being disrupted by digital tools, and that we would soon be able to scale up to everyone, everywhere. One model has already been rolled out by IIT Madras. Get a IIT degree without JEE!! study.iitm.ac.in/es/

Delighted to join Minister Umarova for the opening of the WorldBank UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 #CentralAsia Symposium on #Education. We engaged with ministerial delegations from #Kazakhistan #Tajikistan #Kyrgyzstan #Uzbekistan on the prioritization and sequencing of teacher policies!

India's massive Public Distribution System (PDS) provides 160 million families with subsidised rations, yet many eligible people are unable to collect the rations. An underlying reason has been that they have been tied to an assigned shop, turning these shops into monopolies. ISB

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We need adequate and equitable education finance! Education funding per child in the richest countries is 155 times larger than in the poorest countries. Learn more in the NEW #EWF2024 by @‌GEMReport, WorldBank & @‌UNESCOstat: wrld.bg/E4Iv50TYmGk #FundEducation

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