You must have heard about the young Indian who recently won an award worth one million U.S. dollars. Ranjit Sinh Disale won the Global Teacher Prize for 2020, given jointly by UNESCO and the Varkey Foundation.
Started in 2010 by Dubai-based Sunny Varkey, the Varkey Foundation is a global charitable fund committed to improving the quality of education of underprivileged children. It trains thousands of teachers and school principals in developing countries.
In 2013, the Varkey Foundation launched the Global Education and Skills Forum, which organizes in the month of March every year in Dubai an Educational Summit that tries to address the world’s educational needs. A year later, in 2014, it launched the annual Global Teacher Prize—one million dollars to an outstanding teacher who has had a widespread impact. This year, for the first time, an Indian teacher was chosen for the prestigious award.
After scrutinizing about 12,000 nominations from 140 countries, the Foundation chose ten teachers. From these ten finalists, Disale, just thirty-two years old, was finally chosen for the award.
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