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Youth Champions gather early years insights for world leaders
Youth champions to tell world leaders why they must Act For Early Years
Meet the seven winners of our latest Education Innovation Awards
Five things you need to know this week about global education
A school has been built with recycled bricks that can stand up to earthquakes - plus a warning about education systems at risk of collapse in almost 50 countries.
Desmond Abinwi Fontoh – Global Youth Ambassador September 2021
¹ú²úÊÓƵ's work would not be possible without our network of nearly 1000 Global Youth Ambassadors from around the world. Each month, we highlight the work of one or two of them and the amazing work they do to get every child into school.
“My own school challenges motivated me to help other young people and children complete their education”
Solomon Ifeanyi Nathaniel, a ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Global Youth Ambassador, talks about the work he is doing in The Gambia to give every child a quality education.
Expert Voices
¹ú²úÊÓƵ project to help refugee children deal with trauma wins global education award
The fantastic work of the Trauma Informed Schools programme in Turkey has been recognised by the 2021 WISE Awards.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Gordon Brown calls for $8 billion of aid in return for girls' education to be protected in Afghanistan - plus it's back to school for several countries.
Amazing success of lockdown videos for children with special educational needs in Lebanon
As schools prepare to reopen, we look at a pandemic project supported by ¹ú²úÊÓƵ that helped parents and teachers to deliver learning and therapeutic support in the home.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
The first day at school for 140 million young children has been delayed "indefinitely" - but LEGO Foundation aid will help others in Haiti and Afghanistan.
Expert judges to decide five winners of ¹ú²úÊÓƵ Education Innovation Awards 2021
They have the tough task of choosing the programmes that will benefit from scale-ready grants of £50,000 and mentoring to boost their work with marginalised young people.
“Communicating with drawings is very powerful – children of all ages can interpret images”
Nick Sharratt - illustrator, children's author and ¹ú²úÊÓƵ ambassador - talks about his own education experience and why he is passionate about campaigning for change.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
¹ú²úÊÓƵ's fears for the future of girls' education in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover leads our news roundup.