Keeping girls in the classroom makes economic sense. The failure of women to finish school costs more than $15tn worldwide in lost lifetime productivity and earnings. But as the FT’s Andrew Jack explains, even simple measures, such as providing uniforms and transport, or incentives that reward teachers for turning up can have a significant impact.
Can you assign a value to knowledge? Leading thinkers, dignitaries and entrepreneurs share personal messages on key matters surrounding the power of education.
Singapore believes its much vaunted education system may be falling short in preparing its citizens for an automated future. Now it’s exploring ways to remedy the problem, including lessons from the Swiss.
Philanthropy alone won’t help reach the UN’s SDGs. If profit and purpose attended the same school and collaborated more closely, significant amounts of vital capital could be unlocked to help educate millions of children.
Many people fear the advance of AI and automation, but innovation expert Charles Leadbeater believes we should be more concerned about an education system creating second-rate robots, rather than first-rate humans.
Theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming explains why, when it comes to learning, many parents are taking the wrong approach if they want to future-proof their children’s education.
The complexity and magnitude of problems currently faced by governments and individuals have few historical precedents. Our planet is under huge environmental pressure; wealth inequality is worsening, and workers face ever stiffer competition – increasingly from computers with deep artificial intelligence. These problems are interlinked, and education is pivotal to resolving them
Explore the interactive map that shows how addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4, quality education, may result in a positive impact on many of the other goals
The MBA is moving east. Demand for MBA courses is falling in the US, with applications at seven out of ten US business schools offering the qualification going down in 2018. But as the FT's Jonathan Moules explains, look east, particularly to China, and the demand for this degree is growing. Four Chinese institutions feature in this year's FT top 50 global MBA rankings.
Roger Federer swaps the tennis court for the playground to serve quality early learning programmes to over one million children in Southern Africa and Switzerland. His Foundation goes far beyond delivering books to the classroom, putting the community at the core of education reform.
No teachers. No fees, and no qualifications needed. Codam is an unorthodox coding college designed to address educational inequality, and a shortage of tech professionals. The FT’s Harriet Agnew goes to Amsterdam to meet Codam’s founder and funder, one of the brains behind TomTom, Corinne Vigreux, and discover a new way of learning
Funding is often the barrier to higher education for students from emerging economies. Prodigy Finance is breaking down borders in student loan financing through their unique fintech powered credit model, allowing gifted students to be placed at the best universities no matter what their financial status may be.
Indonesia has one of the world’s largest but lowest performing education systems. Two young tech entrepreneurs are helping solve the learning crisis through their technology platform Ruangguru - tipped to be the country’s first edtech unicorn