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Tanzania has made significant progress in delivering education and health services, particularly in the areas of rural health infrastructure and teacher attendance, according to the latest Service Delivery Indicators (SDI) published on 27 May. However, the new data also highlight weaknesses that are contributing to low levels of learning in primary schools and tragic mortality levels among mothers and newborns. Tanzania’s maternal mortality rate is very high at 432 deaths per 100,000 live births.

In large parts of Syria and Yemen schools are closed and teachers have become beggars in the street. Lebanon and Jordan are struggling to give shelter to hundreds of thousands of refugees. These and other challenges facing their countries were discussed by Education International (EI) affiliates from the Arab region, which met in Beirut on 26-27 May.

Members of the University and College Union strike for equal gender pay and fair contracts

The Dutch school system is one of the best in the OECD, but raising standards will require further reforms to improve early childhood education and care, minimize the risks of early tracking, and develop teacher professionalism throughout the lifecycle and promote peer collaboration, according to a new OECD report.

From the left to the right: Filinto Lima (Andaep), João Dias da Silva (Secretary General of FNE), Emidio Sousa (Mayor) and Jorge Ascensão (Confap)

Global and national organisations launch a new fund to better coordinate support for, and drive investment in, education for children and youth affected by humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises, on 23 May.

At the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit being held in Istanbul, education stakeholders are calling on policy leaders to ensure access to education for all displaced children.

A new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, jointly released by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit on May 23-24 reveals new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school and 25% of refugee adolescents are in secondary school.

The call to increase spending was made during a joint roundtable in late April organised by Education International (EI)’s affiliate, the Federation of Mongolian Education and Science Unions (FMESU), along with partners of the Education for All Coalition.