The students at GEMS International School, Al Khail witnessed a powerful speech by Kailash Satyarthi – the recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Malala...
Arne Duncan, Former US Secretary of Education and Managing Partner, Emerson Collective; Graham Brown-Martin author of Learning {Re}imagined, Founder of Learning Without Frontiers (LWF); and Geoffrey Canada, President, President,...
Members of the first Refugee Olympic Team who took part in the 2016 Rio Olympics shared how they triumphed in spite of the refugee crisis to...
While technology and its role in redefining education was a resounding theme at the fifth Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF), a keenly contested debate had...
“Education is the key to the sort of change we want to see in our planet,” concluded Julia Gillard, “the global education movement is about trying...
Day 2 of the Global Education and Skills Forum 2017 saw Bear Grylls, Hanan Al Hroub, HE Sheikh Nahyan, Sadhguru, Irina Bokova and other leading educators...
The success of the Varkey Foundation’s US $1M Global Teacher Prize, now celebrating its third year of success, has inspired National Teacher Prizes in over 20...
A project to provide every UK teacher with a grounding in understanding mental health issues so they can spot problems early and help troubled pupils is...
A new expert group comprising 20 former Education Ministers and Heads of State, that will provide advice on global education issues to current governments, was launched...
Argentina has today been named as the first Latin American country partner for the annual Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF). The announcement was made at...
In a star-studded event featuring Ranbir Kapoor, Mahira Khan, Bear Grylls and other celebrities, Maggie MacDonnell of Canada was today awarded the Global Teacher Prize Winner...
The Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF) will see Oscars of Education (Global Teacher Prize) being awarded today, the second day of the event instituted by...
Thomas Friedman, the author of The World is Flat and The New York Times foreign affairs columnist, batted for old values, which he said “matters more...
Watch Sunny Varkey, founder of the Varkey Foundation give the opening address at the 5th Global Education & Skills Forum
An initiative of the Varkey Foundation, The Global Teacher Prize recognises outstanding contributions to the profession. We introduce the Top Ten Finalists. Which of these teachers...