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City mayors lead the way as champions for the early years
Youth Champions gather early years insights for world leaders
Battle forces students to trek six hours on bombed mountain road to sit exams
The worst fighting in Yemen's three-year conflict meant 2000 high school students headed for the safety of the capital Sanaa.
Courage of Syrian school children who defied Islamic State to keep on learning
A UN chief praised students who refused to stop going to their classes after the terror group banned books and killed some of their teachers.
“I’m a teacher but my experiences as a child labourer motivate me to help others”
A Global Youth Ambassador from Pakistan tells how he guided a boy called Aamir away from work and back into school.
Expert Voices
ICT Corners help refugee children take education courses and keep in touch with their families
Children in Serbia can start a course in any of the "mobile classrooms" and finish it at the next one along their route as they travel in Europe.
Kenya’s pre-primary plan to help children succeed at school
A national policy has been launched to give children a good grounding and reduce their chances of later repeating classes or dropping out of school.
EU gives 100m euros to educate Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
The aid package comes three months after magician Dynamo appealed for urgent action to get children into school - but much more still needs to be done.
70% of Rohingya children out of school in Bangladesh refugee camps
A generation is facing a bleak future unless urgent action is taken, Save the Children warned as UN chiefs saw the scale of the crisis for themselves.
Outcry in Malaysia over child bride aged 11 who married a man 30 years older
UNICEF said it was outraged and the Malaysian government has promised tighter laws on child marriage, which forces many girls to drop out of school.
Funding plan to help millions into school gets a boost from Europe
100,000 people in Germany and the Netherlands - plus singer Shakira on her European tour - have supported a global education initiative. Â
How education gives hope and pride to Syrian children in refugee camps
When magician Dynamo decided to champion the cause of getting Syrian children into school, he saw the difference that URDA is making in their lives.