The company did not reveal the size of its financial commitment but expects to double the number of grants the nonprofit offers.
It’s a good day for education.
Apple has announced a partnership with the Malala Fund designed to enable the nonprofit to double the number of grants it offers and extend its funding programs to India and Latin America.
More than 500 people have signed the open letter asking for higher quality science in Slovakia.
Slovak scientists involved in the platform Žijem vedu (I live science) wrote an open letter to PM Robert Fico and the Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport, Martina Lubyová. They asked the ministers to improve the quality of science education and research in Slovakia.
“Education and research should be the immediate priority of the government in the coming years,” states the letter.
Thousands of schools across England are to benefit from a £2.4 billion cash injection, Education Secretary Justine Greening announced today (3 April 2017).
It comes as new government figures show that almost 735,000 additional school places have been created since 2010 - with 92% of new primary places and 89% of new secondary places created in schools rated as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2015 to 2016.
Ontario has strengthened its successful model for collective bargaining in the education sector by making it more flexible, transparent and consistent.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), announced recently in the Federal Register, the availability of $20 million for its National Professional Development (NPD) grant competition to support educators of English Learner (EL) students.
“These grants are great investments in helping prepare new teachers improve their content skills to better serve the needs of English learner students,” said Supreet Anand, deputy director of OELA. “Our English Learners benefit by having competent and capable instructors in the classroom.”