Education is a superpower | View | Mar 2024
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“Education is a superpower. It helps children to thrive not only in time of stability, but even more so in moments of fragility,” writes Jane Mann , Managing Director of Cambridge Partnership for Education?for the?World Economic Forum . We need education that is built for peace – especially in times of war. Indeed,?“we know that education itself can reduce conflict,”?writes Jane . ?
On a similar theme, our Chief Executive, Peter Phillips , called for global collaboration to solve the "learning crisis" in Africa, in a piece for the Financial Times.
We’re focused on the power of education to create something better in the UK too. Our UK exam board OCR?is looking into key parts of secondary education for 11- to 16-year-olds in England.?Former Education Secretary Charles Clarke will?chair that review ?for OCR and?Cambridge.??
Writing in?the Times, ?OCR’s Chief Executive Jill Duffy emphasises that it is essential to build cross-party support for reform and put forward bold, pragmatic options for the next government.
Read the stories below and find out more at cambridge.org .
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Cambridge International Education has awarded two schools in Mongolia and the USA a top Cambridge prize for excelling in sustainability-related projects.
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7 个月So long as it lead to development of critical thinking, analytic skills with focus on building ever newer neural pathways that in turn generate potential exponentially. In that sense - it is a superpower indeed
Math Teacher at Winnington school
8 个月School is a source of Knowledge where teachers impart knowledge to students in order to change them into well civilized and well cultured human beings.
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8 个月Education is truly a superpower. It is both informal and formal and it imparts in one the knowledge one needs to understand the dos and don'ts in life and the knowledge one needs to solve every matter of life.
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8 个月This will help me in learning ahead.
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