Yayorin (www.yayorin.org) is an Indonesian-based conservation project with the mammoth task of teaching its people about conserving the forest and its creatures, with the chief aim being saving existing populations of orangutans.
"If bridge were to be recognised as a sport in England then EBU would be able to invest in a number of projects to teach Bridge to people of all ages and to ensure that facilities are improved".
The article documents the past and present practices of Software Carpentry - a project for teaching scientists about computing - and reflects on the project's successes and failures.
Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), which represents university workers, said: "Despite limited knowledge about where their fee money goes, it is interesting that students have little time for building projects at the expense of teaching.
Among Mr Varkey's next projects is the idea of teaching "global citizenship", promoting tolerance and mutual understanding.
But she chose to work for Teach For America, which seeks out new graduates with strong leadership skills and academic preparation to tackle the difficult project of teaching in some of America's most underprivileged school systems.
In Britain this approach emerged from the Schools History Project (SHP), a review of teaching methods launched in 1972.
More often described as the Women's Institute for girls, the 500,000-member organisation describes its Girls in Action project as a way of teaching girls to campaign on important matters such as gender inequality and violence against women and girls.
► Also in this week's issue, Ian Traniello of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who established a science outreach course at a juvenile detention center in Urbana, responded to an earlier letter from Carri LeRoy of the Sustainability in Prisons Project about the benefits of teaching science to inmates.
"With this project, the students have entered the difficult-to-define practice of socially engaged art," said Department of Art & Art History Assistant Professor Wendy Wischer who created the course and led this semester-long project with the help of teaching assistant Justin Watson.
There are also projects to improve the quality of teaching.
