MY World. La mitad de trabajadores, sin ahorro para el retiro :: La Razón :: 9 de enero de 2013. Más de la mitad de la población en México que ya trabaja no contribuye a esquemas que brinden prestaciones de pensiones y jubilaciones, por lo que a la edad de su retiro tendrán que depender de alguien más para su manutención. De acuerdo con el estudio “Temas relevantes y aplicaciones prácticas en materia de retiro”, elaborado por el Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas y la consultoría Ernst & Young, en 40 años, el número de mexicanos con 65 y más años de edad pasará de 6.3 millones (5.84 por ciento) a 25.6 millones (21.3 por ciento de la población total). “Estas cifras revelan la importancia y la urgencia de generar el ahorro requerido para cubrir las necesidades de ingreso futuro de esta población”, se destaca en el documento. Según el análisis, se augura que los adultos mayores que gozarán de una pensión a mediados del presente siglo apenas serán alrededor de la cuarta parte de las personas de la tercera edad.
Respalda Amafore al nuevo titular de la Consar. Martha Nussbaum: “You can’t get innovation without cultivating the imagination” Making the right connections. By Barbara IschingerDirector for Education It’s becoming clear to me that the crisis in youth unemployment around the world is not just one of the aftershocks of the global economic downturn, but may also have roots in education systems that are not adequately preparing students for 21st-century economies. I took that message to a regional conference on Promoting Youth Employment in North Africa, held in Tunis in mid-July, where I presented not only the OECD Skills Strategy but also discussed the importance of improving the quality of education and of teachers, and of making quality education accessible to all.
Some 41% of 15-24 year-olds in Tunisia are unemployed – a statistic that is devastating in the present and potentially catastrophic for the future of the country and the region. In more than half of OECD countries, the rate of unemployment among young people approaches or exceeds 20%; and many of the underlying conditions are the same as those found in Tunisia. Diez tendencias sobre el uso de la tecnología en la educación en los países en desarrollo | Centro de información sobre las perspectivas del desarrollo internacional.
Gran parte de lo que leemos y oímos discutir sobre ‘tendencias emergentes’ respecto del uso de la tecnología en la educación está dirigido mayoritariamente a audiencias en los países industrializados, o para áreas urbanas más ricas en otras partes del mundo y se basa en una medida importante en observaciones acerca de lo que está sucediendo en esos lugares. Un beneficio de trabajar en una institución como el Banco Mundial, explorando asuntos relacionados con el uso de las tecnologías de la información y de las comunicaciones (TIC) en la educación alrededor del mundo, es que podemos conocer muchas propuestas interesantes de la gente y, más importante, qué cosas apasionantes están haciendo en sitios que a veces no se divulgan ampliamente en los medios de comunicación internacionales (incluyendo algunas de las ‘innovaciones de punta’ más atractivas).
A menudo nos preguntan cosas como: "¿qué tendencias nota que están pasando un poco ‘desapercibidas’? ". 1. Tablets, tablets, tablets 2. 3. 4. Otra forma de creer. Girls match boys for primary school enrolment in poor countries | Global development. There were 97 girls enrolled in primary school per 100 boys worldwide in 2010. Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images Girls have reached parity with boys in primary school enrolment in another development milestone, the UN reported this week in its latest snapshot of progress towards the eight milliennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Achieving parity in education is considered an important step in the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women – MDG3. Driven by national and international efforts, the MDG 2012 report finds many more of the world's children are enrolled in school at primary level, especially since 2000, with girls benefiting the most. Enrolment rates of primary school age children increased markedly in sub-Saharan Africa, from 58% to 76% between 1999 and 2010, with many countries in the region succeeding in reducing their relatively high out-of-school rates even as their primary school age populations were growing.
The report noted other milestones. Education and Human Development. Math learning software and other technology are hurting education. Photograph by Thinkstock. When Longfellow Middle School in Falls Church, Va., recently renovated its classrooms, Vern Williams, who might be the best math teacher in the country, had to fight to keep his blackboard. The school was putting in new “interactive whiteboards” in every room, part of a broader effort to increase the use of technology in education. That might sound like a welcome change. But this effort, part of a nationwide trend, is undermining American education, particularly in mathematics and the sciences. It is beginning to do to our educational system what the transformation to industrial agriculture has done to our food system over the past half century: efficiently produce a deluge of cheap, empty calories.
I went to see Williams because he was famous when I was in middle school 20 years ago, at a different school in the same county. Longfellow’s teams have been state champions for 24 of the last 29 years in MathCounts, a competition for middle schoolers.