The Rudolf Steiner School, Mbagathi, on the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya recently celebrated another milestone with the completion of four new kindergarten classrooms. Judith Brown, a teacher at the school, looks back over more than two decades of school development. But as she also explains, the school still has plenty more plans for the future.                              

NAIROBI (NNA) - The Rudolf Steiner School, Mbagathi, has just over 300 children – ranging in age from three to fifteen…

WITTEN/HERDECKE (NNA) - Family carers are exposed to great pressures which can often bring them to the edge of burnout. In many cases they give up their own lives and receive little support. It is not unusual for carers to become more ill than those they are caring for.

Now the nursing department at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany has developed and academically underpinned a comprehensive programme on behalf of the Unfallkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen accident insurance fund which aims to…

A conference, “Finance at the threshold: prospects for associative economics in our time”, was held in Toronto from 12-14 August looking at the contribution which associative economics could make to economic developments. The topic is, of course, particularly relevant at a time when the international financial situation continues to be fraught with uncertainty. Kim Chotzen reports.

TORONTO (NNA) - Where are we when we talk about finance today? If the markets are on 24-7 with no pause moments,…

DAR-ES-SALAAM (NNA) – “Inspiring children to learn” was the theme of this year’s East African Conference on Waldorf Education, which was held at the Hekima Waldorf School in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, earlier this year.                  

Participants were mainly drawn from the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. However, there were also participants from Europe, South Africa, Nigeria and America. The organisers had invited guest lecturers to talk on different topics and also to…

CANTERBURY (NNA) – A new Masters degree course in Steiner education looks set to be launched at Canterbury Christ Church University in England.            

The programme, which has been set up in collaboration with the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship by John Burnett, programme director of the Steiner Waldorf BA degree at Plymouth University, and Alan Swindell acting on behalf of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship, has now successfully completed the initial stages of preparation. …

Balancing the needs of the Steiner Waldorf curriculum with the requirements of a state-run examination regime for school leavers is not always easy. Yet in New Zealand, Waldorf schools are close to achieving a landmark breakthrough, as Tom Raines explains.

AUCKLAND (NNA) - Steiner schools the world over face the challenge in the upper school of how to remain true to the aims and practices of the Waldorf curriculum and yet at the same time enable students to enter tertiary education with…

Andrei Bely’s book "Verwandeln des Lebens” (The Transformation of Life) has been republished by Futurum Verlag on occasion of the 150th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s birth. NNA correspondent Nela Nerzog marvels at the fascinating insights it gives into Rudolf Steiner, the man.

BASEL (NNA) - In the last year, the publications and the many activities to celebrate the 150th birthday of Rudolf Steiner have brought his ideas nearer to the public consciousness and have shown that he is one of the…

STROUD (NNA) - Patrick Holden, the UK’s leading spokesman on organic food and farming, will be giving the keynote address at the autumn conference of the Biodynamic Association next month.

Holden was director of the Soil Association until retiring last year. The Soil Association is the UK’s leading organic organisation and Soil Association Certification is the UK's largest organic certification body, responsible for certifying over 70% of all organic products sold in the country. 

As patron of…

The New Zealand Government recently made a number of changes at all levels of education. These included the regulation to extend the provision of adult education to make it more relevant to the Maori and Pacific Island communities. This change coincided with the arrival of John Burnett, formerly in charge of the Waldorf education course at the University of Plymouth, to take up the position of programme director for the Diploma of Rudolf Steiner Education at Taruna College in New Zealand. NNA…

STROUD (NNA) – A new centre offering support primarily for young people with eating disorders through a combination of full residential care, anthroposophic therapies, and a therapeutic education with supported transition is planning to open its doors in the UK before the end of the year. The centre will also offer evening and weekend support sessions.

Upper Grange in Stroud has recently been gifted to a newly formed biodynamic land trust, the Living Earth Land Trust, and consists of a…