By his own admission, John Roberts didn’t grow up with great ambitions of saving the world. Coming from what he calls a “pretty privileged background” in southern California, through his school years he was more focused o...
Each generation has had an issue that plagued their thoughts, dreams, and aspirations. For our grandparents, it was managing a Post WWII world. For our parents, it was dealing with drug abuse and the now invisible color lines....
Only two decades ago, the status of many women in some South Asian countries was low. Many girls in rural areas were not allowed to study. Girls were inevitably married off as soon as they grew up, so what good was studying? Bo...
India – young girls increasingly ‘disappear’ in this country of great cultural integration and interconnectedness; more than 50 million girls go missing in an atmosphere marked by technological and scientific advancem...
Within a few days, I fell in love with San Javier’s charm, both because of the place and the people there. San Javier is a small town in Uruguay of around 2000 people, you have cars that are still with the models from the 80...
The New York Times last week reported that schools in Germany are offering lessons in Islam to primary school students. Politicians in Hesse suggest that alienation of young Muslims in German society is the primary reason for r...
On November 19th, the European Parliament voted in favour of Erasmus+—the new EU funding programme for education, training, work and sport abroad proposed by the European Commission. From January 2014, more than 4 million peo...
Four years out of government seems to have done former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown a lot of good; relieved of his characteristic dour demeanour, the “son of the manse” occupied the pulpit of St John’s Episcopal Chu...
Just over a year ago, Senator Tom Harkin released a report detailing the predatory nature of many for-profit colleges. According to the report, these schools are often incredibly expensive, leave students with huge debts, hav...