Reinventing schools: some champions in our backyard

Foreign domestic workers attend a class on Microsoft Excel software, at Aidha micro business school in Singapore October 20, 2013. When she was eight, Lisa Padua lost everything after her father died, forcing her to leave school in her mid-teens to work as a maid in Qatar and then in Singapore. Twenty one years later, she still works in Singapore as a domestic helper but now owns three businesses and earns enough to send six nephews and nieces to college in the Philippines. Padua says she owes her success to Aidha, a micro school in Singapore that trains women like her in wealth and business management so they can build a better future back home in the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar. Picture taken October 20, 2013. To match SINGAPORE-MAIDS/ENTREPRENEURS REUTERS/Edgar Su (SINGAPORE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION SOCIETY) - RTX14J8J

The three most visible waves of reinventing modern education come in the form of digitizing, internationalizing, and personalizing. Image: REUTERS/Edgar Su

Mark Esposito
Chief Learning Officer, Nexus FrontierTech, Professor at Hult International Business School
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