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Celebrities walk Scottish coastal path to raise £30,000 for ¹ú²úÊÓƵ
Charity President Sarah Brown - with Sandi Toksvig and partner Debbie, Kathy Lette and Arabella Weir - did the trek to help give children the best start in life.
Girls’ education in Pakistan under attack again as 12 schools are damaged in one night
Safe schools have been promised by new Prime Minister Imran Khan after a series of co-ordinated attacks in the north of the country.
Bus deaths spark huge road safety protests by school students in Bangladesh
Schools were closed and the government promised urgent reform after teenagers brought traffic to a standstill for days in the capital Dhaka.
Burundi overturns school ban on pregnant girls and young mothers
Campaigners welcomed the move but said more action is needed to curb the sexual exploitation of young girls and high rates of teen pregnancies.
“Education for girls is indispensable for ending the generational cycles of poverty and disease”
A Global Youth Ambassador from DRC tells why equal access to quality education is vital for the future of her country and the wider world.Â
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Indonesia plans to hire 100,000 teachers this year
They must be prepared to teach the most marginalised children as the country strives to improve the quality of its vast school system.
Why one in four Palestinian boys drop out of school by the age of 15
Getting through checkpoints, violence at school and classes they see as irrelevant are among the reasons given for so many adolescents leaving education.
15 of the most dangerous countries to go to school
Many children around the world who are just trying to get an education run the risk of being attacked, abducted or having their schools used for military purposes.
Turkish teachers trained to help traumatised Syrian children
A programme is showing educators how to support refugee students who have been affected by seeing conflict and having to leave their homes.
Morocco aims to get every child into pre-primary education
A 10-year plan to enrol 730,000 extra students will require 55,000 new teachers and 57,000 additional classrooms.