Education and the Role of the Media

Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2013 "The Future of Growth - Economic Values and the Media"

17-19 June 2013, Bonn , Germany

Students with developmental disabilities are now harnessing the power of technology to offer them opportunities not typically seen in education.

For kids across the globe, the road to school is not without its hazards.

EU countries make it too difficult for foreign students and scientists to come to European universities. The EU Commission wants to change visa processes and entry requirements - yet deeper problems remain.

Imagine you are a little girl in Mali or India. What are the chances that you will complete primary school or go on to higher education. Find out by exploring the data in Mind the Gap.

How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve.

A video obtained by Think Africa Press shows the work of a Kenyan NGO in educating local women leaders about the dangers of female genital cutting.

Tim Brown discusses how creativity has an essential role in education It was good to see a strong focus on education at Davos this year.

In many countries of the world, a disability is a stigma. Disabled children are hidden by their families and don't go to school. A new UNICEF report draws attention to their tragic plight.

There has never been a better time to flex your brain with free online courses, so we scoured the Web high and low and found some of the best options for increasing your brainpower from the comfort of your computer without paying a dime in tuition.

Free education for everyone around the globe! That's the idea behind the Khan Academy. Set up by American Salman Khan five years ago, the online-education website now boasts close to a million users.

A UK-backed project in Western Equatoria state seeks to ensure domestic and social factors don't deny girls an education. Mark Tran reports

It's about time we called out the great myth that mass poverty just is, as if it were a natural part of some universal moral order. Such thinking is both profoundly untrue and disastrously misleading

At some point in 2011 education went from "Oh God, no!" to kinda hot in Silicon Valley.

Fleeing the broken homes of Colombia's slums, many children land on the streets. Some even turn to prostitution. German university professor Hartwig Weber is mobilizing local teachers to help break the cycle.

Transport 30 rural Afghan girls from remote village to Teacher Training Center for one month. Afghanistan faces a shortage of female teachers. Absence of female teachers prevents girls from receiving education in conservative villages.

Africa's record on school enrolment varies between and within countries. But educators' focus may now be shifting from enrolment to quality and new innovative forms of training.

An emerging form of online education, called massive open online courses, provides access to renowned universities to people around the world. But can it improve the education of students in developing countries?

Each January, I have the opportunity to facilitate a course in Leading and Managing Technology for the Educational Leadership Program at St. Mary's College of California.

Rachel Kurzyp recently learned that her grandfather on her mother’s side was non-literate. He had received little education and didn’t value it. In this post, Rachel reflects on her own education a...