Life Skills Education: - Changing the character of education

Changing the character of education
South Africa Good News - Emphasis will be placed on maths and science and literacy, combined with life skills. Education will also be boosted by the possible introduction of a licensing system for teachers. This would bring the education sector in South Africa in line with

education - latest research
ActionAid - The report brings together critical thinking from the fields of public health and education to understand some of the challenges in using life skills education for HIV prevention. Difficulties such as adapting participatory approaches to the

Limited knowledge of HIV risk and prevention among high risk groups
UNICEF - Ensure that schools address HIV more openly, including in life skills education; Ensure a strong gender focus and targeted policies to reach those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds; Build accessible and youth-friendly health care and

First Tee is much more than golf
GolfWeek - Dedric Holmes, The First Tee's senior director of life skills education, estimates 90 percent of the attendees have never visited a college campus. How far can one's horizons broaden in one week? The Life Skills Academy began in 2000 at Kansas

March for peace in northern Uganda
ActionAid - The bus crew met 13-year-old Apio Agnes, who is in her second year at the Empowering Life Skills Education (Else) centre in Bweyale, Masindi, which is supported by ActionAid. She is one of the hundreds of children who witnessed atrocities committed