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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds video chat with children in Gaza.

The Government of India, the Government of Bihar and the World Bank signed a $250 million credit agreement to improve the quality of elementary school teachers ob Aug. 7 in Bihar by making them more qualified, accountable and responsive.

Alaa attends an Arabic literature class at al-Bayt University in Mafraq, where she studies with the support of a UNHCR DAFI scholarship.

Every child in sub-Saharan Africa can have access to affordable and good quality textbooks if policy measures are taken to reduce the cost of textbooks and sustainable financing is ensured says a new World Bank report launched Monday at a workshop hosted by the African Development Bank.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved on Friday the second additional financing to the Republic of Mozambique’s Education Sector Support Project (ESSP) in the amount of US$50 million International Development Association (IDA) grant. This complements a grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in the amount of US$57.9 million which the World Bank will supervise. These grants support ESSP to improve access to and quality and equity of education.

New research, conducted by Abigail McKnight of the London School of Economics for the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, has exposed the reality of a ‘glass floor’ in British society that protects less able, better-off children from falling down the social ladder as they become adults.

According to a new report from the World Bank, UNRWA students in the occupied Palestinian territory and Jordan perform better than their peers in public schools despite their socioeconomic disadvantages.