During the last four years, Lebanon’s education sector has undergone major changes due to the economic crisis, political instability and social challenges which resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic. As teachers…
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Public goods are numerous. In the face of extreme perils, public goods exist to guarantee the very survival of a society. External and internal guardian institutions against invading powers, catastrophes…
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Education is the cornerstone of a nation’s progress, and it is often touted as a powerful tool for achieving equality and social mobility. However, in today’s Lebanon, the situation is…
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Every one of you reading this today can understand this simple sentence. However, almost two thirds (59 percent) of children in the Arab world are in ‘learning poverty’—which means they…
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Fates hinging on international funding
by Elie Gholamby Elie GholamIn Lebanon, the non-governmental sector has been booming since 2011 from the year the Syrian refugees influx started. This sector is employing Lebanese staff and paying them in real US…
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The view from Lebanon’s education ministry
by Fadi Yarakby Fadi YarakThe Lebanese economy is changing. Our education system must follow suit. The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) is committed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)…
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The 21st century will cause a rupture in the way we think, feel, behave, create, produce, and live. Fire took eons to start changing humanity—tools, a little less. The first…
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If anything about the future can be claimed as certain, it is this: The jobs of the future will be different from those of today, and jobs across various sectors…
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Lebanon’s education system is failing students with special needs
Students with physical and cognitive disabilities in Lebanon are being put at a disadvantage by a system that, from the get-go, creates barriers—both physical and financial—toward an inclusive education. While…
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My father returned to Lebanon in 1994, 10 years after the civil war forcibly exiled him to France. He thought that his PhD from Sorbonne University, coupled with extensive academic…
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