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More than 50 sport ministers and senior officials representing 115 countries agreed on actions to provide universal access to sports and physical activity to women and men of all ages during the Sixth International Conference of Ministers and Senior Officials Responsible for Physical Education and Sport, MINEPS VI.

Malala Yousafzai is shown around the school in Bakassi camp by student, Fatima Grema who has been displaced by the conflict in northeast Nigeria.

Sri Lanka has signed a US$100 million credit agreement with the World Bank to support its higher education sector. The objective of this initiative is to increase enrollment in priority disciplines, improve the quality of degree programs, and promote research and innovation in the higher education sector.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is considering a proposal that would require the country's more than 1.4 million international students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year.

A new report by Education International looks at the empowerment and development of the teaching profession through best-practice examples of union renewal, organisation and growth.

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Children at Bahadoub 2 school in Timbuktu, Mali.

Jordan can improve the quality of health and education services by using incentives and increasing monitoring to strengthen accountability, according to a new World Bank report entitled “The Last Mile to Quality Service Delivery in Jordan.”

Around one in four students in the 15 countries and economies* that took part in the latest OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test of financial literacy are unable to make even simple decisions on everyday spending, while only one in ten can understand complex issues, such as income tax.