✏️Are you curious about the work of the World Bank on #education but you missed the “High Impact Initiative on #TransformingEducation” event? We got your back! Replay the intervention of our Global Director, Luis Benveniste: media.un.org/en/asset/k1y/k… #SDGActionWeekend #SDG4

💡On Sep. 21, join our seminar and find out how virtual & XR labs can offer students training opportunities for practical learning and skills development. ℹ Register: wrld.bg/5B0x50PMeCv #Skills4Dev #Education

🌐Today, our World Bank Education Global Director, Luis Benveniste met & congratulated Min. Л.Энх-Амгалан for🇲🇳#Mongolia’s exemplary efforts to recover/accelerate student learning and reimagine #education through digital transformation & key reforms. #UNGA #EndLearningPoverty

When empowered with education and skills, people are able not just to seek jobs but to create them. Join us at our Annual Meetings event on October 13 as we champion human capital investments for a constantly evolving global job landscape: wrld.bg/22vB50PRnV9 #WBMeetings

Join us this Thursday for a webinar in partnership with @GenUnlimited on "Empowering Girls in #STEM" 👩‍🔬📲🤝👭📢

🎙️ Maria Rebeca Barron highlights the importance of supporting girls + women with #SkillsRightNow in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) during World Bank Education & Generation Unlimited's seminar "Empowering Girls in STEM: Skilling and Employment Approaches." #Skills4Dev

This week we bid a final farewell & close down our comms channels for good. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with our education systems research over the course of the last 8 years. But wait.....

Employees deserve respectful workplaces free from violence and harassment. 📲💻 Tool suite 4 in IFC's Gender & Infrastructure Toolkit helps companies recognize & reduce impacts of #GBVH, fostering safe, inclusive environments. #IFCGender wrld.bg/qKwb50Q6zHm

📚 Between 2019-2023, World Bank-supported programs benefited 500 million students globally. Our ‘#ReadAtHome’ initiative expands access to quality reading materials and supports vulnerable households. Jaime Saavedra wrld.bg/sUhI50QtQKQ #StartTheStory

Yes, 2024 is the African Union's Year of Education! For our #StartTheStory, Ousmane Diagana World Bank Africa highlighted the importance of reading to our children. He also suggested some key African authors. Let's join forced to #EndLearningPoverty! wrld.bg/oGji50Qu3ZS

“Things Fall Apart” – This the book, our Vice President Victoria Kwakwa World Bank Africa picked up for #StartTheStory. Let’s hear more about this interesting African novel by Chinua Achebe! wrld.bg/lm7T50QtQNi

Today marks #EducationDay and our World Bank Education Global Director for Education, Luis Benveniste shared with us his favorite childhood book: 'Mafalda'. 📕What book made you a reader? wrld.bg/h3TP50QtFHx

🆕 New #EdTech #podcast episode! 🎙️ How to empower critical thinking in the age of #AI?Join Cristobal Cobo as he discusses #GenAI and education with michael trucano and Maria Rebeca Barron. Listen now: 🎧 wrldbg.link/AI_s 🍏 wrldbg.link/AI_a 🔍 wrldbg.link/AI_g

AI research is still primarily dominated by men: in 2022, only one in four researchers publishing on AI worldwide was a woman and women represent only 20% of employees in technical roles in major machine learning companies. See blog by my colleagues Ekua Bentil &

I can't wait for the full paper. Kudos to Maria Rebeca Barron and her team who ran the study.

In Nigeria, where educational challenges are particularly acute, we explored whether #GenAI models could serve as effective after-school tutors. 🆕Insights here: wrld.bg/kax550WhETH World Bank Africa Martín E. De Simone Maria Rebeca Barron #InvestInPeople #EdTech

How can AI help students learn the equivalent of two years in just six weeks? In Nigeria, a people-centred AI tutoring programme achieved just that. 2016 MPP alumna Maria Rebeca Barron shares five lessons for policymakers from the Global South. 👇 ow.ly/GYTl50WFNAs

Excelente blog de Maria Rebeca Barron: El debate sobre la IA en la educación a menudo está polarizado, pero una integración responsable requiere matices y liderazgo. blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/p…

Here are 5 practical insights to support policymakers and education leaders towards more responsible and effective integration pathways of generative AI in education! 🆕Blog by Maria Rebeca Barron: wrld.bg/RLip50WObtm #InvestInPeople

The AI revolution in education is not something to passively accept; it is an opportunity to actively shape solutions that address the global learning crisis. 🆕Blog by Maria Rebeca Barron: wrld.bg/xgJO50WObji #InvestInPeople