Thank you to all those who entered the Blogging Competition. We enjoyed reading your writing! Below are links to all of the articles we have published: please read them and share your thoughts and comments with the authors and with us.
Congratulations to the winners of the Youth and Adult categories! These were announced on 10 December 2013 by our experienced Jury, which was "impressed by the vibrant ideas and energy that came across in the articles and comments". For the Young Writers category, it was decided that all five authors deserved recognition rather than to award a prize, and they will each be receiving a book!
Entries in alpabetical order:
Young Writers Category (10-14)
- Ajewole, Lekan (Nigeria): In the Future, Children will still use pencils
- Cain, Ziaskia (UK): Pencils to Pixels
- Cookie (France): Why Do Grown-Ups Read Fairy Tales?
- Conibear, Isobel (UK): "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." by Albert Einstein
- Orton, Marisa (France): Imagination over Knowledge
Youth Category (15-18)
- Ajewole, Biodun (Nigeria): Education is not the filling of a pail
- Arif, Nazish (India): To be or not to be - is that what school is about?
- Azizan, Nur Afiqah (Malaysia): "To be or not to be..." Is that what school is about? -- Shortlisted!
- Behrana, Maheen (UK): The Magic of Myth
- Burgess, Hannah (UK): Myths, legends and fantasies: why do we read them, why do we watch them?
- Chung, Yoojin (South Korea): Let us light the fire
- Hynes, Annabel (Ireland): Myths, legends and fantasies: why do we read them, why do we watch them?
- Lim, Jia Ying (Singapore): Immortal: The Endurance of Story-Telling
- Lim, Seung Jae (Philippines): True Education is the Following of a Passion -- Winner of the NUHA Youth Blogging Prize 2013!
- Narula, Kritika (India): Fantasy and reality often overlap -- Shortlisted!
- Pope, Martyn (UK): Our Demigod Dream
- Sulaiman, Kafayat (Nigeria): Myths, legends and fantasies: why do we read them, why do we watch them?
- Vedan, Eshlin (South Africa): Be cool and stay in school, enlightenment is key to living a happy life
Adult Category (19+)
- Adazie, Bede (Nigeria): Changing the Mode of Conducting Examinations in Nigeria
- Ahmed, Bilkisu (Nigeria): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Anyata, Kingsley (Nigeria): The mindset -- 1st prize for the NUHA Adult Blogging Prize 2013!
- Anyole, Emmanuel (Uganda): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Boland, Helena (UK): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country... -- Shortlisted!
- Buhari-alade, Akintayo (Nigeria): Underfunding, the bane of development of education in Nigeria
- Buhari-alade, Akintola (Nigeria): Yesterday's formula for success is often today's recipe for failure, our education system is archaic!
- Capariño, Joselito Narciso (Philippines): Investing in Philippine public education system: reforming the mindset -- Shortlisted!
- Chauhan, Ankita (India): An Indian Way of Education
- Clerkin, Anna Marie (Italy): If there was one thing I could change to improve education in my country...
- Clerkin, Anna Marie (Italy): "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."
- Dharod, Khyati (India): Those who cannot laugh at themselves leave the job to others
- Fernandes, Pamela (India): Change what I'm studying the way I'm studying it
- Ghahremanzadeh, Reza (UK): "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."
- Hamel, Alex (Greece): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Hussain, Ishraq (India): "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others" (Anonymous)
- Iheme, Nzube (Nigeria): Education In My Country: The Essential Change
- Issa, Ridwan (Nigeria): The complement to improve education in Nigeria
- Kure, Abdullahi (Nigeria): Fund Education; Stimulate National Progress
- Kurumilla, Vijayshree (India): No price bigger than an aspiration for the desired education
- Kurumilla, Vijayshree (India): Those who wish to laugh at us will do it anyway
- Kwok, Timothy (Singapore): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Lee, Aurora (Brunei): In an era of tight public finances, should students be entitled to subsidized higher education no matter what they choose to study?
- Mayasari, Mei (Indonesia): Free Education for Poor People
- Momanyi, Harun (Kenya): "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest" -- Shortlisted!
- Nayar, Megha (India): Tight public finances or otherwise, uniform subsidies are not the answer -- 2nd prize for the NUHA Adult Blogging Prize 2013!
- Noonan, Michael (UK): Humour and Fanaticism
- Nwulu, Ifeoma (Nigeria): Too Theoretical, less Practical
- Obrah, Garima (India): Are we churning intelligence?
- Odhiambo, Brian (Kenya): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Ogbe, Chukwunonso (Nigeria): Checkmating the Malaise of Intellectual Indolence in the Nigerian Educational Sector -- Shortlisted!
- Omotosho, Trust (Nigeria): One thing I woud change to improve education in my country and why
- Onwumere, Odimegwu (Nigeria): If there was one thing I could change to improve education in my country... -- Shortlisted!
- Otuagomah, Josephine (Nigeria): The Geode
- Pacifique, Naomi (Switzerland): Developing Development, Making the World a Happier Place
- Patel, Mangal (UK): In an era of tight public finances, should students be entitled to subsidised higher education no matter what they choose to study?
- Qadeer, Mohammed Tanzeem (India): Laugh
- Qasim, Minahil (Pakistan): The curious case of the Parrots without Purpose
- Raif, Ejder (UK): What would I change about education?
- Sankhala, Vikram (India): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Stevens, Julia (UK): If there was one thing you could change to improve education in your country...
- Sutanto, Andri Kurniawan (Indonesia): Subsidies for higher education: should or not?
- Thomas, Israel (Nigeria): Redefining free and compulsory primary education in Nigeria
- Yap, Hui Rei (Singapore): "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."
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