UK universities told to reach out to students from poorest neighbourhoods under new guidance
UK government has issued new guidance to the Director of Fair Access (DFA), setting out the government’s clear ambitions for the progress universities should be making to boost social mobility and raise young people’s aspirations.
Alternative provision: progress made, but more still to be done
A UK's new Ofsted report published on 9 February finds that schools still need to do more to ensure both the quality of education and the safety of pupils in alternative provision.
Concern growing over the commercialisation of education in Ghana
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and education unions, including Education International (EI), its affiliates and partners, are sounding alarm bells amidst growing privatisation and commercialisation of education in...
Kenya: latest UN report shares concerns on quality of education and increasing inequality
Education in Kenya is under scrutiny following a new United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) report published at the beginning of February. For Committee Member and Rapporteur for Kenya, Olga Khazova, the growth of unmonitored...
US$1.4 billion needed to get every Syrian child back in school, say aid agencies
Ghinwa, 7, and her brother Alaa, 11, at Al-Khalidia Al-Khamisa informal settlement in Homs, Syria. January 2016
Global teacher unions say ‘no’ to Trans-Pacific Partnership
New professional pathways programme in Chile is education movement’s victory
Uganda: teachers get ‘teched out’ to improve teaching and learning
