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The education sector can play a crucial role in preventing young people from succumbing to ‘pull factors’ leading to violent extremism and terrorism, participants said at an OSCE-sponsored event dedicated to countering violent extremism and radicalization through education, which concluded on February 17.

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Nyahok (centre) attends primary school in the refugee camp in Gambella, Ethiopia.

UK Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime, Karen Bradley, has officially launched a new whistleblowing helpline for employees to speak out about child protection failures.

Affiliates from Asia and Africa have learnt first-hand how to coordinate and put forward their strategies within the new framework of the Education 2030 agenda that was adopted by UNESCO member States in Paris last autumn. Two workshops in Nairobi and Bangkok led by Education International (EI)’s regional offices have helped participants deepen their understanding of the new framework and map out common advocacy strategies in order to influence policy both at national, regional and international level.

Despite a recent High Court ruling that declared Australia’s offshore processing of asylum seekers as lawful, high school principal Paul Dingle is publically airing his opposition to the system.

UK government has issued new guidance to the Director of Fair Access (DFA), setting out the government’s clear ambitions for the progress universities should be making to boost social mobility and raise young people’s aspirations.

A UK's new Ofsted report published on 9 February finds that schools still need to do more to ensure both the quality of education and the safety of pupils in alternative provision.