Imagine the scene at the conclusion of the Round 8 match on April 30: the crowd is still on their feet as Dylan Moore, one of the competition’s more dependable set shots, lines up after the siren with the scores locked. He puts it in the slot. There is a draw for the Hawks. Supporters of Collingwood sigh and make their way to the exits. It feels like one of those annoying near-misses that football season frequently presents. The sequence leading up to Moore’s kick might never have been permitted to occur at all, something that no one in that…
Author: Kelsey Myers
Kelsey Myers
Kelsey Myers is a Senior Editor at worldomep.org and a dedicated advocate for early childhood education whose work begins — and ends — with a simple belief: that the earliest years of a child's life matter more than almost anything else we can invest in. Based at a local school, Kelsey works daily alongside the children and families whose experiences inform everything she writes. She doesn't observe early education from a distance. She is inside it — in the classrooms, on the playgrounds, in the conversations between teachers and parents that shape how young children understand the world around them. That proximity gives her writing a warmth and specificity that purely policy-driven commentary rarely achieves. Through her writing at worldomep.org, Kelsey brings that same energy to readers — making the case, clearly and consistently, that early childhood education deserves far more attention than it typically receives. Kelsey shares her personal opinions on: https://x.com/Butterflyboule
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The passport scans and selfie photos of at least 100,000 people were somewhere on an Amazon storage server, quietly and publicly available to anybody with the correct web address. Some of those pictures had embedded GPS coordinates that were accurate enough to show the location of the picture, and in a few instances, accurate enough to identify a person’s house. a number from a passport. a face. A place. One file for everything. That is all that is needed for identity fraud, and for an undisclosed period of time, this information was practically accessible to anyone who went looking. UK…
One type of influence is one that doesn’t make a big announcement. It doesn’t come from viral headlines or press conferences. It develops gradually, study by study, citation by citation, until one day a government minister of education in Seoul or Santiago is writing a policy brief and, almost without thinking, looks for the same source. The World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP, is becoming more and more of that source, and its research findings are now genuinely hard to ignore in discussions about what young children deserve on a global scale. Years later, the organization’s flagship sustainability…
The world secretariat of an organization that most people outside of early childhood education are unaware of is located somewhere in Buenos Aires at an address on Sanchez de Bustamante. Three years after the United Nations was established, in 1948, the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP, was established. It has fought for children’s rights to care and education in over 70 countries for more than 70 years. UNESCO, UNICEF, and ECOSOC have given it advisory status. In all honesty, it is one of the most subtly powerful organizations in international education. Additionally, it is currently concentrating more…
Being informed that a five-year-old comprehends something you thought required decades of lived experience to grasp causes a certain kind of unease. Sitting cross-legged on a mat in a Stockholm nursery, a young child explains the importance of not wasting water. A worried-looking child in a Brazilian classroom sketches the Earth. When discussing environmental policy, most policymakers do not consider these moments. However, a substantial amount of research from the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, or OMEP, indicates that they most likely ought to. From 2009 to 2014, over 44,330 children between the ages of one and eight participated…
In Sandton, most drivers pass a corner without slowing down. In one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest neighborhoods, Rivonia Road and Grayston Drive meet at a bustling, sun-bleached intersection where office buildings and shopping malls typically draw the most attention. However, Sandown High School, a public coeducational institution that has been in operation since 1970 and still operates in the middle of a suburb more known for private education and corporate headquarters than government education, is tucked away behind the commotion of that intersection. To be honest, it’s a unique location for a public school. Sandton is pricey. The majority of state…
There is a school on Wellington Road in Parktown, Johannesburg, that has more history than the majority of the city’s structures. The original building, which features wide hallways, red brick, and long-lasting architecture, is now recognized as a provincial heritage site. It seems as though generations of boys have come through these gates with the same red and black blazers, the same worries, and perhaps even the same aspirations. It began in 1920 in an Auckland Park police barracks that had been converted. Parktown Boys’ High School continues to produce individuals who go on to accomplish noteworthy things over a…
Something is going on along Bayview’s Spine Road that needs more attention than it is receiving. In an area of Cape Town that has long yearned for something like this, a new campus is rising behind construction walls, with steel, concrete, and scaffolding extending upward. False Bay TVET College’s new Mitchells Plain campus is anticipated to open before the end of 2026 and be able to accommodate up to 3,000 students. From the outside, observing the rate of construction, it seems like this is more than just a building being built; it’s a kind of statement. For more than 20…
In Gqeberha, there is a campus on Russell Road that doesn’t get the same level of attention as the city’s universities. No postgraduate research headlines, no well-groomed quadriceps. Just lecture halls, workshops, and a few thousand students attempting to turn their education into something useful. For many years, Port Elizabeth TVET College, or PE TVET College as most people know it, has been performing this kind of unglamorous but essential work. However, there have been some recent developments that point to the institution starting a new phase. The Retail Motor Industry Organization and Germany’s HWK partnered to launch South Africa’s…
The city of Sasolburg does not typically garner much national attention. Located in the Free State’s Fezile Dabi District, this town is industrial and pragmatic, centered on petrochemical plants and steady labor that doesn’t make headlines. However, something is currently taking place in its residential streets that is directly related to one of the province’s biggest institutions of higher learning and is beginning to raise unsettling questions. With three campuses and more than 9,000 full-time students, Flavius Mareka TVET College has become the quiet epicenter of a housing crisis that neither the college nor the municipality appear to be fully…