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A new study by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) to be issued on 19 January proposes an economic model that would help reduce the cost of textbooks and increase their availability to students in schools around the world.

With development cooperation facing new funding challenges, education unions are being forced to redefine a strategy based on self-funded initiatives, while continuing to push for increased financial commitments from governments.

The World Bank launched the Sudan Evidence Base and Data Literacy Capacity Development Program. Funded by UKAid, delivered by the World Bank, and drawing on expertise from both organizations, the program – the first of its kind in Sudan – is meant to improve development outcomes through stronger evidence-based policy-making, program design, and monitoring. This capacity development program commenced on January 10 and will continue through the coming eight months.

In a letter to Liberian education Minister George K. Werner, a coalition of civil society organisations has expressed its concerns with the government’s plans to establish a public-private partnership with Bridge International Academies and with the overall process of privatisation and commercialisation of education services in Liberia. One of Education International’s (EI) affiliates in the country, the National Teachers' Association of Liberia, is member of the signatory coalition.

The likelihood of an American teen using or carrying weapons varies according to race and gender, new research contends.

Activities organised during the campaign to end Violence against women in an lraqi school.

More than 12 million children in over 46 countries have better schools, teachers and learning materials, thanks to a 13-year partnership between the IKEA Foundation, Save the Children and UNICEF.

Educators in the Philippines have reacted strongly after a law was passed, granting them a ‘meagre’ and ‘insulting’ salary increase, while other sectors received a much higher salary raise.

On 5 January, during a school day, 9 year old Ayman sells candies in the streets of Kafar Batna village in Rural Damascus.

Trade unions in the UK have joined together with education experts, including teachers, governors, and school staff, to highlight the shortcomings of their government's Education and Adoption Bill to speed up the process of converting ‘failing’ schools into academies.