There are more than 3.1 million illiterate adults in Mexico according to a study by the National Institute of Adult Education (INEA), said General Director Alfredo Llorente Martínez Wednesday. “At this time, we can provide our area coordinators — which are the individuals closest to the community — with the name, last name and address of every illiterate in the country,” …

Higher Education in Britain – particularly in England – is now clearly in perpetual financial crisis. This may seem an odd claim, since universities appear to have higher incomes than ever, and are sitting on vast cash reserves. But this superficially calm macro-level picture obscures the broiling chaos at the micro level. Universities, and particularly their individual departments, have been deliberately …

After assembling rescues of indebted local governments and a plunging stock market for much of the year, China’s leadership gets an opportunity to revive their narrative ofeconomic reform at a gathering now set for October. Ahead of the Communist Party’s so-called Fifth Plenum in three months, President Xi Jinping has been meeting in recent weeks with provincial party bosses. Central …

In Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh,Anupshahr is a small city which has a cluster of villages. Here, girls were treated no less than invisible wombs. They were the faceless who would never reflect in the family tree. The reasons were deep-rooted gendered notions like- Books are no good for a girl as all she ought to do is ghar ka …

Noodle, a search engine for educational resources, has acquired AllClasses in an all-equity deal. Prior to being acquired, AllClasses nabbed $1.5 million in investor funding last year. The acquisition will add over 100,000 classes to Noodle’s database, and it will also give its technology a major boost. Already, Noodle has more than 800,000 school, tutoring and workshop profiles in its database. Noodle scrapes the …

The goal of an education startup is no different than startups in another sector: find a need great enough that someone will pay to solve it. But market needs are not solely defined by the whims of a potential buyer or their ability (or lack thereof) to be influenced by marketing efforts. The buyer’s needs– especially in education–are often shaped …

Taipei: Police arrested 30 student protesters in Taiwan early today after they broke in to the education ministry in the capital Taipei overnight protesting “China-centric” changes to the school curriculum. Increasing fears in Taiwan over Beijing’s influence sparked a three-week occupation of parliament last year by student-led protesters opposing a trade pact with China. “Thirty people were arrested and are being …

The first day of school is less than a month away for students in Lexington and Richland counties. Leaders at the state Department of Education and at local schools are preparing now to best address the history made while kids were out for the summer. South Carolina legislators entered a debate on whether or not the Confederate flag, a symbol …

Delhi Government has announced that children of bravery awardees from paramilitary forces will be given preferences for admission in four of its higher educational institutions. The facility which will be available from this session, was earlier limited to wards of military forces. “Delhi government will give preference to wards of paramilitary forces personnel who have been awarded with bravery awards. …

The government admits that its plans to make graduates pay more for their loans by freezing the £21,000 repayment threshold are “a change from when the policy was first introduced”. Bahram Bekhradnia, president of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said the government’s moves were “cynical and immoral”, after a consultation on the plans was published today by the Department for …