AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoEducation Investment: Malaysia’s Selangor state says its 2027 budget will strengthen education support and expand TVET and STEM, alongside investment in teachers and school facilities. AI in Classrooms: On India’s National Education Day, Assam highlighted school upgrades, while edtech firm YoLearn launched Pragya, an AI tutor it says is built around India’s school curriculum and works in more than 12 languages. Skills and Safety: China’s AI-training market is booming as workers seek new skills; Japan has unveiled age-based internet-use guidelines for children. In Cambodia, a school bus plunged into a pond, killing five schoolgirls and leaving three others fighting for survival. Learning Access: Papua New Guinea and Japan signed a five-year deal to address shortages of secondary-school textbooks. Rural Education: Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot College, has died at 81; his grassroots work helped empower rural communities, especially women.
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