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Ministers and senior representatives of nine of the most populated countries in the global South will gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 5 to 7 February, 2017 to renew their cooperation, aligning it with the education targets and commitments of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations in late 2015.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the World Bank have launched a search for two candidates to join a new research program for interns.

Daniel Lafrenière from the Centrale des syndicats du Québec.

Possessing the second highest growth rate in Sub-Saharan Africa, Côte d'Ivoire must now seek to strengthen its human capital by improving its education system and the quality of public expenditure allocated to the sector if it is to obtain greater equitable growth going forward. This is one of the key findings of the latest World Bank Economic Update on Côte d'Ivoire titled “The Skills Challenge: Why Côte d'Ivoire Must Reform Its Education System”.

Democratic and education challenges face the new Executive Board elected by the Confederaçao Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Educação (CNTE) at its 33rd Congress in Brasília on 15 January. The union, representing Brazilian basic level public school education workers, also approved a national education strike, scheduled to start on 15 March.

Bullying, cyberbullying and violence in schools were the main focus of the International Symposium on School Violence and Bullying: From evidence to action, organised by UNESCO in Seoul, South Korea, from 17-19 January. That’s according to Pathma Krishnan from the Education International (EI) Asia-Pacific Regional Office, who was one of over 270 participants at the event. Attendees represented education ministries, civil society organisations, teachers’ unions and other organisations working in the education sector in 70 countries.