Schools in Scotland, Uganda and Chile among ‘world’s best’ in new prize

LONDON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Faculties in Scotland, Uganda, Chile, Philippines and america triumphed on the inaugural “World’s Greatest College Prizes” on Wednesday for feats together with saving mangroves and increasing lecture rooms in an space hit by warfare.

The 5 colleges shared $250,000 in prize cash for supporting pupils and communities, particularly in the course of the pandemic, in the awards organised by international physique T4 Schooling.

Dunoon Grammar College in Scotland gained the class of group collaboration for skill-based programs, together with in journey and tourism, design and maritime research, supposed to stem a brain-drain.

Escuela Emilia Lascar in Penaflor, Chile gained for innovation for its “Emilia TV” programme which addressed points from psychological well being to gender id.

Bonuan Buquig Nationwide Excessive College in Dagupan Metropolis, Philippines took the environmental prize for serving to rehabilitate misplaced mangroves and supply new habitats for fish.

From two lecture rooms to education 450 pupils, Challenge Shelter Wakadogo in north Uganda gained the prize for overcoming adversity after locals secured land, levelled roads and planted greens for varsity meals in an space that suffered from civil warfare.

Curie Metropolitan Excessive College in Chicago, Illinois, gained the supporting wholesome lives prize for offering an arts programme for college kids, many from minorities, in addition to built-in well being providers.

“Far too many kids will proceed to be left behind within the wake of COVID until governments take pressing motion to deal with the schooling disaster,” T4 Schooling and the prizes founder Vikas Pota stated in a press release.

“As a primary step, they need to flip to the data and expertise contained inside our colleges as a result of these on the frontlines of schooling know higher than anybody else the change we have to see.”

Based in the course of the pandemic, T4 brings collectively lecturers from round to world by way of a digital platform offering instruments and initiatives for schooling.

Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Enhancing by Andrew Cawthorne

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