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EI staff steps in to help refugees in Brussels

Sometimes simple solutions go a long way in solving big challenges, which is why EI staff in Brussels are helping to provide much needed items to scores of refugees camped out in the city’s centre.

Amid the headlines of tragedy and government malaise, staff members at Education International (EI)’s head office in Brussels, Belgium have decided to do what they can to offer assistance to refugees and asylum seekers waiting to receive official documentation from the government. Mostly arriving from Syria, Iraq and Somalia, upwards of a thousand people have been braving the elements in a city park in hopes of receiving refugee status in Europe’s capital.

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Conflict drives 13 million children out of school in the Middle East and North Africa

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Classmates hold hands while standing beside rubble from a destroyed part of the Shuje’iyah Girls’ School in eastern Gaza City.

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Trade union and civil society fire back at magazine’s promotion of low fee for-profit schools

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Australia: education unionists stand up for paid parental leave

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Kenya: education union urges government to respect court order to boost teacher salaries

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First-of-a-kind study shows US college students often start using substances during summer

However, winter is the peak time for college students to start the non-medical use of certain prescription drugs

A study by U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for the first time provides insight on substance use initiation patterns among the one in every five full-time college students (aged 18 to 22) using illicit or potentially harmful substances. The study, which tracks initiation by month, shows the peak times for the initiation of substances including alcohol, marijuana, and inhalants.

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UK's first ever mental health champion for schools unveiled

Leading campaigner Natasha Devon becomes first ever Department for Education mental health champion.

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Germany: researchers support decent wages in education

The considerable strains of social and educational professions must be appropriately appreciated, leading to better remuneration for educators, the Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft explained following a researchers’ appeal to politics and society.

More than 1.4 million people in Germany are professionally active working in the social, education and training fields. In the sector of child and youth welfare and care, 700 thousand of these professionals help children, youth and their families have a decent life. Over 400 thousand educators work in the field of early childhood education.

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India: court urges state officials’ children to attend governmental schools

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Bringing education to the children of Pibor, South Sudan

UNICEF and partners launch Back to Learning campaign

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Children walk to school in South Sudan.