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The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on March 1 US$67 million in financing to improve quality and equity in the primary and secondary education system in Kazakhstan. It is expected that over 2.6 million schoolchildren will benefit from a better learning curriculum and improved quality of teaching, especially in rural and disadvantaged schools in the country.

Gabon's teachers demonstrating.

Wales should continue its efforts to reform the curriculum and raise the standards of teaching in order to improve the quality and equity of its school system, according to a new OECD report.

The Syndicat de l'Education Nationale (SENA), an affiliate of Education International (EI), re-launched a teachers' strike on 31 October 2016, an action which followed an original strike on 16 January 2016, but was suspended on 30 January in accordance with the agreement signed with the Ministry of National Education.

Serbia has joined global leaders in Early Childhood Development by investing in its children to support their success, drive the long term competitiveness of the Serbian economy, and create growth and jobs. Serbia is adding about 17,000 preschool spaces for children thanks to a new Euro 47 million Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Project approved by the World Bank Board of Directors on February 22.

Ten schools owned by the edubusiness Bridge International Academies will have to close in Kenya because of low educational standards.

A little girl reads her paper in class in rural Nepal.