Fulbright art Scholarships
The Fulbright Foundation announces its scholarship program for artists for 2012-2013. This scholarship is for practicing/working artists in any field of fine arts, the visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film making and digital arts who wish to grow a higher level of proficiency, to enhance their career, seek advancement opportunities and familiarize with the US [...]
TEDx Academy 2011
On October 10, 2011, we invite dreamers and doers to join us in the conversation about: “Stepping forward”
The ways of the past have led to the colossal challenges of today. Greece is ensnared in a deep crisis of many levels; political, financial, cultural and ethical.
A non productive and consuming economy, and an highly [...]
Educating Girls: What Works
THE BENEFITS OF GIRLS’ EDUCATION
The benefits of educating girls — to countries, to families and to girls themselves — are so substantial that some economists, including Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard University president and former director of President Obama’s National Economic Council, have stated that educating girls may be the single highest return investment [...]
More than Building Schools
In Rwanda, access to affordable sanitary pads can help keep girls in school
How can countries encourage girls to attend school? Is the answer providing free textbooks or building schools closer to their homes? While these are important pieces of the puzzle, there is another issue that influences whether girls attend school: menstruation.
According to the [...]
Inspiring the Next Generation of Teachers
Tajik teacher Zebo Murodova explains importance of female educators
Zebo Murodova is a secondary school English teacher in southern Tajikistan. Her mother is also an English teacher and encouraged her daughter to join the profession. Murodova studied education in university and then taught at an Internet learning center sponsored by the U.S. State Department and Relief [...]
A Down Payment on a Brighter Future
School stipends in Bangladesh have led to more girls in secondary school
In the 1980s, the U.S. Agency for International Development funded the Female Education Scholarship Program (FESP) to encourage girls to attend secondary school.[1] Following the FESP, multiple iterations of the Female Secondary School Assistance Program (FSSAP)[*] in Bangladesh have continued the work of increasing [...]
“Do I Stay or Do I Go?”
On Wednesday July 6, 2011, at the Hellenic Cosmos room Ifigenia B, the third debate by Intelligence Squared Greece [IQ2] is taking place, entitled “Leaving”.
We are at a difficult economic, social and political situation which we are not going to get over soon as it appears. The young people that are looking for professional development, [...]
The Education of a President
In 1979, Barack Obama left Hawaii to attend Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He later moved to New York City and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1983.
After three years working in Chicago as a community organizer for a coalition of local churches, Obama decided to attend Harvard [...]
Evening dedicated to Jacques Derrida at the American College of Greece
On Friday, May 6 at 5, the American College of Greece – Deree is organizing an event with the theme: “Law, art and violence. Mixed meanings in the work of Jacques Derrida during the decade of 1990.”
The event will take place on Friday, May 6 at the Deree library (Gravias 6, Aghia Paraskevi)
While Derrida’s early [...]
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