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OPINION: Low-fee private schooling: what do we really know?
In an age of quick fixes and silver bullets we are uncomfortable with shades of grey. But like it or not, it’s complicated.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- research
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PRESS RELEASE: National Skill Development Corporation, Ennovent to help skilling firms in India get funding
The initiative aims to create opportunities and aspirations for skilling as an entrepreneurial opportunity in different sectors to fill the demand of trained skilled workforce in the country.
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- Education
- Region
- South Asia
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Duke Global Health Institute Receives $20M From Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided a $20 million grant to the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI).
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public policy
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Education Start-up, The Un-School of Disruptive Design, Announces Mexico City Fellowship for Emerging Leaders
Following a successful program in NYC, the Un-School has opened applications for mavericks and misfits of social innovation to join them in Mexico this November.
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- Press Release
- Categories
- Education, Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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New Approach Provides More Complete Picture of Donor Support for Key Global Health Issues
As the world's leaders gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Financing for Development Conference, a study published in The Lancet demonstrates that a new approach is needed for classifying funding that reflects the function the funding serves, rather than the specific disease or country. The study is the first in-depth assessment of how donor funding is spent on global versus country-specific functions of health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Bill Gates Hopeful of AIDS Vaccine in 10 Years
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, who spends millions of dollars on AIDS drug development, said Friday he hoped for a vaccine against the disease within the next decade as a cure remains far off.
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- Education, Health Care
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Buyout Firm Vital Plans $500 Million Africa Fund As Demand Booms
Private equity firm Vital Capital Investments LP is planning a $500 million investment fund that will focus on African industries overlooked by competitors.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Surviving Pakistan’s Slums: The Extraordinary Story of Mohammad Sabir
Every morning at sunrise, five-year-old Muhammad Sabir stepped out of his house, sagging a garbage bag to his shoulders, filling it with aluminum, plastic, paper scraps or anything he could find to sell. Salvaging trash to survive, he picked up snippets of newspapers and tried to read them.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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