AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoStudent Innovation: Mangaluru’s Sahyadri College will host a three-day festival from Nov. 12, bringing school and engineering students together to tackle community challenges; organisers expect more than 5,000 participants from 425 institutions. In Surat, a school student used machine learning to estimate groundwater availability, winning a national innovation challenge. Digital Learning: Japan plans a hybrid textbook system that would limit digital use for younger pupils. A Chinese university dropped an AI feature that tracked students’ attention after a privacy backlash. Access and Enrolment: A new UNESCO-UNICEF report says 2.6 million Afghan girls have been denied secondary education since 2021, while 53% of primary-age children are out of formal schooling. South Korea expects elementary enrolment to fall below 300,000 for the first time. Education Funding: In India, the longstanding target of spending 6% of GDP on education remains unmet, six decades after it was set.
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