Education

In an insightful long-ranging conversation, the newly appointed Rector of the RUDN University (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia), Oleg Yastrebov, discusses the latest developments, educational reforms, students’ enrollment as well as cultural diversity in his multinational university. By Kester Kenn…

The information fallacy consists of believing that, if we provide people with truthful, objective and undistorted information, they will be able to digest and act rationally with respect to it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fallacy of…

Immediately afterwards the 2010 earthquake, at Fundación Semilla we took on the task of supporting schools in the devastated area of the O’Higgins Region, through Post Traumatic Stress Containment programmes. Soon after, we realised that the stress was caused by…

Since the return to classes a few weeks ago, we have seen through the media and social networks various acts of violence in educational establishments and in different parts of the country. The big difference is not the aggressions, but…

On 11 January, the results of the Transition Test (PDT), the instrument used in Chile to determine university entrance, were released and, once again, it is clear that it doesn’t matter where you are born or where you study. So…

The following text is taken from the last of part of the video of Yurii Sheliazhenko “Don’t lie like Boris Johnson!” My name is Yurii Sheliazhenko and I am a Ukrainian peace activist. I live in Kyiv the capital of…

LIVE SHOW – Friday, March 11th at 12 (noon) On this show, we speak with Dr. Saundra Yancy McGuire, internationally acclaimed learning specialist, teacher and author of “Teach Students How to Learn and Teach Yourself How to Learn”. Her most recent recognition was being…

In Rojava, in Syrian Kurdistan, the Mesopotamian University of Social Sciences in Qamislo and, above all, the Women’s University of Rimelan challenge the traditional way of conceiving the transmission of knowledge. The students are not only young people, but also…

After months of intense work, Still I Rise has opened Pamoja, an emergency and rehabilitation school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The students are child laborers who have been digging and cleaning minerals from local mine sites. They will…

We are just a few days away from the return to classes in Chile, hoping that there is a consensus that these classes will be face-to-face because the consequences of the pandemic and online classes have been devastating, especially for…