Education

Teacher Summit puts teachers at the heart of their professional development

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Delegates Convene at the 7th International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) in Berlin, Germany

UNESCO: Comprehensive sexuality education improves gender equality and reproductive health

The CSE leads to improved sexual and reproductive health, resulting in the reduction of sexually transmitted infections, HIV, and unintended pregnancy, according to the report. CSE not only promotes gender equality and equitable social norms, but has...

UK government to invest record £26.3 billion in UK’s world-class science until 2021

UK Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson has on 4 March set out the government’s commitment to put the UK at the forefront of research to tackle some of the planet’s greatest challenges such as flooding, famine and viral diseases like Ebola.

Teaching programmes in Cambodia, Malaysia and Malawi to receive UNESCO-Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize

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Nicolas AxelrodTeacher training at Hun Seb Prek Somrung Primary Junior School, Cambodia

Twice as many girls as boys will never start school says UNESCO eAtlas launched in advance of International Women’s Day

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Marco DorminoA classroom in Gao, Mali

USA: Teachers, students and parents stage massive walk-ins for public schools

Teachers across the US “reclaimed” their public schools in a mass coordinated mobilisation to throw the spotlight on the challenges facing public education and solutions needed to address them.

Haiti: political violence claims academic’s life

The killing of a teacher unionist has exposed the deteriorating political situation in Haiti where the country was left to linger in constitutional limbo following the resignation of President Michel Martelly.

International Summit on the Teaching Profession enshrines tradition of dialogue

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