Five things you need to know this week about global education
Countries have promised to increase their investment in education in the wake of the pandemic - plus the librarian who swaps books for rubbish.
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World Children’s Day: celebrating the right to education and taking action to unlock a better future
Every child has the right to go to school and get a quality education. To mark World Children's Day today, we celebrate that right and look at how you can help us to ensure that right is realised for all children.
Theirworld’s approach to inclusion and education
Our disability and inclusion consultant welcomes the focus of this year's Global Education Monitoring report on inclusion - but says there is much more to be done.
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Continuing the fight for girls’ education
Today is International Day of the Girl, which highlights the challenges girls are facing around the world while celebrating initiatives to empower young women.
Day of hope as international donors pledge to help millions of children into school
The value of campaigning was shown as countries and foundations stepped up to give hundreds of millions of dollars to two global education initiatives.
Theirworld unveils Infinity Classroom to show world leaders the vast scale of global education crisis
The idea for an exhibition at the UN showing endless rows of empty desks arose from the challenge of how to represent the 260 million children out of school.
How hitting 10 targets will help to #WriteTheWrong and deliver quality education for all
The Sustainable Development Goal on education has a series of objectives to be met by 2030 - what are they, how are they measured and what progress is being made?
From free bikes for schoolgirls to early learning projects: what countries are doing to #WriteTheWrong
A massive global push is needed to get every child in school by 2030 - but many nations are using innovative methods to deliver education.
Take our education test to find out how millions of children don’t get the chance to learn
How much do you know about the struggles children around the world face just to be able to go to school? Test your knowledge of the global education crisis with our quiz.
“We mentored students in skills needed for transformative leadership”
A Global Youth Ambassador from Lagos, Nigeria tells us about an event he ran to empower disadvantaged children with life skills
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