Education

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for education by 2030 will be major challenge for all countries
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OECD countries must step up their efforts to improve the quality and equity of their education systems as part of their commitments to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education by 2030, according to a new OECD report.

EU-UNICEF partnership helps address learning and protection needs of children and youth affected by the Syria crisis
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UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake meets with EU Commisioner Johannes Hahn at...

UNICEF calls for an increase in education spending as new report reveals global crisis in learning
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More than two-thirds of schoolchildren in low-income countries will not learn basic primary level skills in 2030 despite an ambitious goal to get every child in school and learning, according to a report launched on 18 September by the International...

UK: Unions condemn reintroduction of selective grammar schools
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Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11. There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondary schools, and a further 69 grammar...

More choice as over 80,000 new free schools places created in UK
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Thousands of new free school in UK places - to give parents even more choice of a ‘good’ school for their child - have been announced by Education Secretary Justine Greening.

OECD’s Education at a Glance 2016 reveals public benefits of education and need for increased spending
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“This year's ‘Education at Glance' provides some highly disturbing statistics, stresses Education International (EI) General Secretary Fred van Leeuwen, noting that since last year's report the average percentage of the GDP spent on education has...

USA: Trump’s proposed education cuts detrimental to students and teachers
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US education unions have expressed serious concerns at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s announcement that he will reduce the education budget by US$20 billion.

Slovenia: education union urges parliament not to sign EU free trade agreement with Canada
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