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The World Bank approved a $300 million loan to support the Punjab province in improving school participation, completion, and teaching-learning practices with a particular focus on low-performing districts, on 3 June.

EI Deputy General Secretary Haldis Holst speaks at the 105th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

With the Trade in Services negotiations accelerating, teachers’ unions are urging their governments to demand a democratic negotiation process and the carving out of education and other public services from the agreement.

2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report
-Palestinian girl checking a torn up book in front of her school's damaged hall way in east Gaza school

On the occasion of the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, UNESCO is calling for the protection of shipwrecks from the battles at sea, and has launched an educational initiative that aims to raise young people’s awareness on the importance of this heritage for dialogue, reconciliation and peace.

Contrary to its call to implement needs-based funding to schools across the country, Australia’s coalition government’s budget has revealed that the neediest schools are set to lose financial support, a move that affects disadvantaged students.