Malala Petitions to Fund Education for Girls
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, has launched an online petition on a community-driven petitions site Change.org. The petition urges to fund 12 years of education for girls around the world. It…
NASA Awards Grants to Expand STEM Education
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected nine universities for cooperative agreement awards totaling $3.6 million to create and operate a NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy. The universities will receive as much as $160,000 per year for two…
Toyota Offers Scholarships to Promote STEM Education
Fueling the future by ensuring that students get their best opportunity to succeed, leading automaker Toyota is partnering with Rainbow PUSH Excel to provide $75,000 scholarships to 10 deserving engineering and business college students through the Jesse L. Jackson, Sr….
NASA Invites Education Reporters to Get #spacED at Johnson
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is inviting education-focused media to attend a two-day #spacED event on Sept. 15 and 16. The event will highlight the International Space Station and the one-year mission with astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail…
Role of Internet in Education: RMN Foundation Workshop
RMN Foundation, which is an educational and public charitable organization, held a workshop Sunday, July 26, on the “Role of Internet in Education” for the students of its “Friends of the Future” school in New Delhi. Anchored by Sanjay Gupta,…
Minority Male Maker Program Created for STEM Education
Minority Male Maker is a two-year program created by Verizon and launched this month at Kentucky State University with a $400,000 Verizon Foundation grant. The program seeks to empower a new generation of minority men by giving them lifelong technology…
British Council Partners with Schools in India
The British Council, UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities in partnership with various schools across the country, is organising a week-long series of events around school education. The ‘Schools Week’ began Wednesday with the launch of the…
New Website to Help Children with Disabilities
The Interagency Task Force for Children with Special Needs, supported by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, launched Monday a new website — NavigateLifeTexas.org — to help families who have children with disabilities and special health care needs. The…
























