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When a school collapse left 75 children without a classroom in rural Rajasthan, 60-year-old farmer Mor Singh gave up his only home to become their school. He now lives in a plastic shelter while children study where his family once lived.
Nine schools in Namibia's flood-prone Zambezi region are getting permanent relocations, ending decades of annual disruptions for thousands of students. The government's $30 million investment will finally give these children safe, year-round access to education.
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is championing a digital transformation at the National Open University of Nigeria, calling for AI integration and the return of suspended law programs. With 190,000 active students already benefiting from distance learning, the university is poised to expand access to education across Africa's most populous nation.
An Indian educator who started with 30 children in a small workshop 24 years ago just won the million-dollar Global Teacher Prize for building 800 learning centers across her country. Rouble Nagi's foundation now reaches over a million children who never had access to education.
André Béteille, who helped build sociology as a discipline in India and championed equal access to education, passed away at 91 after decades of transforming how we understand caste and class. His legacy lives on through thousands of students who remember a teacher who treated everyone as equals.