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Identifying and implementing strategic choices to improve education systems in the Arab world is the focus of a nine-day course sponsored by the World Bank in association with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF).

EI has released its statement to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2014 on 8th March. EI affiliates are encouraged to use this statement in their own IWD communications and in connection with EI’s global campaign Unite for Quality Education.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved support to The Gambia to increase access to basic education, improve the quality of teaching and learning for primary school students, and support critical behavior changes to reinforce governance of the education system. By focusing on education, the funds will help some 290,000 children gain the knowledge and skills they need to move out of poverty and to live healthy, productive lives.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved financing for Nigeria to further support secondary education programs in Lagos State. This will allow strong results to be sustained and evaluated in hundreds of secondary schools, and expanded to others.

Bangladesh needs to focus on high-quality learning, and strong foundational cognitive and behavioral skills from early childhood, says a new World Bank report “Seeding Fertile Ground: Education That Works for Bangladesh”.

Hospitals in Europe where nursing staff care for fewer patients and have a higher proportion of bachelor’s degree-trained nurses had significantly fewer surgical patients die while hospitalized according to a new study. These findings underscore the potential risks to patients when nurse staffing is cut and suggest an increased emphasis on bachelor’s education for nurses could reduce hospital deaths.

EI welcomes the collaboration agreement to work towards eradicating discrimination against LGBT people in learning and teaching environments signed by member organisations in Spain - FECCOO, STES, FETE-UGT - and the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals organisations (FELGTB).

Education International (EI) condemns the reported killing of between 29 and 59 school boys at their boarding school in Northern Nigeria in the early hours of 25 February. It is claimed that the boys were shot or burnt to death by the terrorist group commonly known as Boko Haram (which roughly translates as ‘western education is forbidden’ from the Hausa language).

Students stand in the doorway of a classroom at Maiduguri Experimental School, a school attacked by the armed Islamist group Boko Haram, in Maiduguri, Nigeria on May 12, 2012.

The government of Bangladesh signed a $265 million additional financing agreement with the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s concessional arm, for the ongoing Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project. The financing will help annually 4.5 million poor rural children in 215 upazilas across the country to continue secondary level education.