The author argues that Opportunity New York City, the new cash transfer programme, overlooks supply-side issues and quality of education. The programme’s undue focus is on demand-driven and cash-based incentives.

Spain’s Ministry for Tourism is to provide on-line distance-learning courses for Latin American tourism officials.


Sustainable tourism is the focus of the initiative which, during its first semester, will provide three on-line courses for the Spanish-speaking Americas. It is targeted at Latin American professionals who have, or could take on, responsibility for the quality of tourism management – “preferably within public tourism administrations at the national, regional or local lev more...

The eLearn Portal - New Zealand's Tertiary e-Learning Portal brings us this important information about the eLF Forum Asia:

eLF 2008 aims to bring thought leaders, experts and practitioners who actively use and develop eLearning technologies together, to improve the teaching and learning experience of learners. The theme of this year’s annual eLF2008 is: It’s A Small World After All. This small world has been made possible by the explosive growth of the Internet and the many exceptional more...

For distance learning to flourish, higher education must address several challenges, including volume versus quality
By Stephen R. Ruth, Martha Sammons, and Lindsey Poulin
Can the e-learning juggernaut continue at its current rapid pace? Courses at a distance already reach close to 20 percent of college students in the United States, and growth rates are significantly higher than those of traditionally taught programs. New offerings seem to be springing up everywhere, and some existing ones ar more...

The 3rd International Conference on ICT for Development, Education
and Training will take place from May 28 to 30, 2008 in Accra, Ghana.
eLearning Africa is the premier gathering place for all experts and
stakeholders engaged or interested in ICT-based education, training
and development on the African continent. Everyone concerned with
eLearning in Africa is welcome to share and learn. We encourage
practitioners and academics engaged in an African context to apply by
submitting a proposa more...

Accorsding to this article recently published by Online Educa Berlin, The United Nations Environment Programme initiates a global platform for Web-Based Learning: Arndt Bubenzer holds a university degree in adult and continuing education and communication studies from universities in Freiburg, Germany and Halifax, Canada. His portfolio includes the design of e-learning programmes and course management at the tele-akademie Furtwangen in Germany and EU project management in the education sector. F more...

The 1st Pan-African Prize for Entrepreneurial Teachers offers awards of $1,000 to the most outstanding educator IN EACH AFRICAN COUNTRY - along with a TOP PRIZE of $10,000. ENTRY CLOSE OCTOBER 15th 2007.
Launched by Teach A Man To Fish, in partnership with Educating Africa, competition seeks find Africa's most remarkable teachers - extraordinary individuals who ‘go the extra mile’ to find creative ways to bring education to their students. Educator who transform limited resources into ast more...

E-Learning Network of Nigeria a Non-Governmental Organization in collaboration with Federal College of Education (Technical}, Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria is organizing an E-Learning Conference 2007, November 19-21,2007 at Omoku. You can visit our Website for more Information.

The "Dashboard of Sustainability" is a free, non-commercial software which allows users to present complex relationships between economic, social and environmental issues in a highly communicative format aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in Sustainable Development. (http://esl.jrc.it/envind/dashbrds.htm)

The Dashboard Collection is a collection of presentations that were developed using the software, describing important relationships in international development, and illustrat more...

Save the Children UK in Afghanistan has identified improvement of access to and quality of education for children from disadvantaged groups and communities as a Thematic Programme Priority Area and the Education project is one of the strategies to contribute to this Thematic Programme.

Save the Children UK will work closely with officials of MoE at Central and Provincial levels and with school authorities (administrators and teachers). The Education project aims to provide opportunities to A more...