A research study was commissioned in 2013 by UNICEF, ILO, IRC, IOM and the Terre des Hommes Lausanne Foundation, in cooperation with the Haitian state and was carried out with the support of 28 Haitian organisations. It aimed to throw some light on the situation and the developments of the domestic child workers in Haiti. …
Experiences of Domestic Child Workers in Haiti aka Restavek Read More »
In Haiti, like in many other developing countries, a formal education is highly valued. However, 61% of children between the ages of five and 17 are not educated or under-educated. This includes 37% who are enrolled in school but have fallen behind, 18% who never enrolled, and 6% who are dropouts. The prevalence of child …
Forty-five years ago, when Britain’s Open University (OU) began broadcasting its first lectures over BBC television and radio, there were many reasons to discount its importance. For one thing, the concept of providing higher education at a distance wasn’t new: the first correspondence course, teaching shorthand, was offered in the 1700s; the University of London …
The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain’s distance education pioneer? Read More »
DOHA, Qatar — While most Americans were sleeping, first lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday delivered a major speech on girls’ education, urging world leaders not to separate issues of education from wider discussions about girls’ and women’s rights.”If we truly want to get girls into our classrooms, then we need to have an honest conversation about …
Needless to say that if primary and secondary education was similarly privatized in the industrialized world we would experience higher illiteracy rates. Access to education and quality education in a sovereign nation are the result of political and fiscal policy. See on Scoop.it – Ayiti Now Corp
