DEVELOPMENT:  When Education Is Not So Sweet
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BRUSSELS, Jun 29 (IPS) - A major Belgian retail firm has been accused of  misleading its customers by implying that its sales of Malawian  sugar will benefit education projects in that country.
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A young person's life prospects improve dramatically by getting a college education, but the country's schools have room for only one in six applicants
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From MIT's hallowed halls to tiny digital art academies in San Francisco, innovative new programs are changing the way game designers learn their craft. By Chris Kohler.
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By Ernst, Jeremy V; Clark, Aaron C  The need for America's students to develop a deeper knowledge of the nature, creation, and potentials of technology and its symbiotic role in human society, as well as develop a broader range of technological skills, is progressively more important.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels.
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The world's growing young population needs encouragement and education to prosper, the World Bank says.
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (IPS) - Anti-poverty campaigners are concerned that a new  European Union proposal for improving development aid may not  result in sufficient extra money for health and education in poor  countries.
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By Amira Leilani  HANDLING 200 primary school children and another 200 secondary school students as they roam in the jungle and try to understand nature better is not easy.
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By Scarborough, Robert  FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE GLOBALIZATION OF the American economy is a challenge and an opportunity.
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31 August 2004 - Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women&#39;s rights issues, but rich nations have only paid a little more than half of the $6.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
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Ugandan children who have completed primary school benefit from free education at many secondary schools.
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Sometimes what at first seems like a minor change can actually signal major shift in understanding. Last week, Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize - a wonderful achievement for two reasons.
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NEW DELHI, Aug. 4 -- Every year when the monsoon rains pound South Asia, many of the poor children in Anouradha Bakshi's educational program become too sick from waterborne diseases such as diarrhea, typhoid and cholera to attend classes.
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Schools grapple with degree to which they're responsible for social, as well as academic, skills.