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COVID-19 has harmed girls' education. Here's what needs to be done

This article article was written by contributors following a webinar on 8 March and originally published by WISE.

新冠肺炎之下的学校封锁严重影响了女性的经济未来

此项研究以及社会活动家博诺（译者注：爱尔兰摇滚乐队U2主唱、活动家）的其他研究表明，女性的入学回报率很高。几年前，在《时代》杂志的一篇文章中，博诺写道：“给女孩仅多一年的上学时间，她们的工资就上涨了近12％。”他一年前在慕尼黑安全会议上说了同样的话。这个数字的来源是2014年世界银行的一篇论文，最近的数据证实情况仍然如此。同时，女孩在学校的学习时间更长，学习更多。但是，由...

World Bank: COVID-19 school closures threaten women's economic future

Returns to schooling for women are high – so says Bono and the research. A couple of years ago, in an essay in Time magazine Bono wrote: “Give girls just one additional year of schooling ...

3 things we can do reverse the ‘COVID slide’ in education

Emerging pieces of evidence of an actual COVID-19 learning loss and of its likely implications for the future of the generation currently in school show that it is essential to mitigate t...

Qualité de l’éducation et automatisation du travail

L’automatisation du travail est à l’origine d’une course entre les avancées technologiques et la mise à niveau conséquente du dispositif éducatif. Et pourtant, la capacité d’une main-d’œu...

Las repercusiones de la automatización en la educación

La automatización está anunciando una nueva “carrera” entre la educación y la tecnología. Sin embargo, la capacidad de los trabajadores para competir con la automatización se ve limitada ...

How we can prepare students for the automated working world

Depending on to whom you listen, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) will either solve all our problems or end the human race. Sometime in the near future, machine inte...

Giving our children a great education: five lessons from South Korea

Watch the Asia Takes the Lead session from the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017 here.

This investment has an average 10% return

One of the biggest economic benefits of schooling are labor market earnings. For many people, education and experience are their only assets. This is why I believe that it’s very importan...

How can education aid economic development?

There are more children in school today than ever before. For example, in 1950 the average level of schooling in Africa was less than two years. It is more than five years today. In East ...

Why we need to test literacy skills at a young age

A couple of years ago Room to Read, a non-profit organization for improving literacy and gender equality in education in the developing world, implored viewers to try to not to read anyth...

How workers can prevent their jobs being taken by robots

Stephen Hawking has warned that artificial intelligence could end the human race. The development of intelligent machines could pose a major threat to humanity. Sometime in the near futur...

How Timor-Leste is transforming education

What 50 years of “Returns to Education” has given us

What education experts think of returns to schooling