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Four Southwest Wisconsin school districts are receiving grants totaling nearly $120,000 to buy equipment to prepare students for careers in advanced manufacturing fields. The recipients are: Southwestern and Prairie du Chien schools, with $49,900 each for “Regional Equitable Access in Additive Manufacturing through Augmented Reality” to each buy two “augmented reality welding training systems.” Benton School District, with just over $10,000 for “Personal Protective Equipment and...

Rhia Ventures Names Erika Seth Davies As Next Chief Executive Officer News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- After conducting a nationwide search, the Board of Directors of Rhia Ventures is pleased to welcome Erika Seth Davies as its next Chief Executive Officer. Erika is the Founder of The Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL), an organization working in partnership with Common Future that centers racial equity in impact investing an...

Study highlights concern about publishing practices Open-access academic publishing may have opened gateways for research from higher education scholars to be disseminated through the internet, but there are concerns that too few Sub-Saharan African researchers publish peer-reviewed articles in the online publishing industry, according to an ongoing joint study between the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge and Education Sub-Saharan Africa (E...

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Poorer children “failed by system” Study reveals the extent of poverty as a barrier to education in low and middle income countries. Credit: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Getty Images Poorer children with academic promise in low- and middle-income countries are struggling to access higher education because the challenges of poverty disrupt their potential, according to a decades-long study from the University of Cambridge. The challenges of poverty disrupt their potential and hinder their educati...

 E-Mail A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower and middle-income countries is continually protected by wealth, a study has found. The research, which used data from around 3,500 young people in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, shows that promising but poorer students fall away during their school years, as challenges associated with their socio-economic circumstances gradually erode their potential. Am...

Washington DC [US], April 1 (ANI): The World Bank on Thursday approved the allocation of an additional USD 25 million in financing from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to increase equitable access to primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, particularly for girls, the organisation said in a statement.

Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Johnson & Johnson Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization March 12, 2021 GMT (PRNewsfoto/Johnson & Johnson) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the ...

Email address:  CONCORD, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Education has completed a comprehensive review of its Career and Technical Education programs with the goal of making these programs more accessible to students. The report titled “Increasing Equitable Access to Career and Technical Education” provides in-depth research on the Department’s efforts to identify barriers regarding access to career and technical education (CTE), and to determine potential strategies to addres...