Education

Become Program Coordinator, join education unions taking action to stop SRGBV!

The UN Girls Education Initiative, Education International and Gender at Work are looking for a Program Coordinator in the framework of their three-year multi-country initiative in Africa to end school-related gender-based violence.

Africa set to invest in its teachers

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A teacher in Kenya.

Grant Signing: Bangladesh Receives $100 Million Grant to Help 19.5 Million Children Complete Primary Schooling

The Government of Bangladesh Tuesday signed an agreement with the World Bank for a $100 million grant from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for the ongoing Third Primary Education Development Program (PEDP3). The grant will help 19.5 million...

Iraq: education union roles up sleeves to tackle infrastructure issues

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The signing of the contract to build education infrastructure.

Government of India and World Bank Sign US$ 50 Million Project to Improve Education & Skills Training for Minority Communities in India

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At the signing - Michael Haney, Operations Advisor, World Bank, Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary,...

Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency forces one million children from school – UNICEF

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Girls use their new school supplies during a class in an informal learning centre in a UNICEF-...

Nigeria conflict forces more than 1 million children from school

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In December 2015, a young girl attends the recently constructed classrooms at the Assaga refugee camp in southeast Niger

UK schoolchildren to help plant a million native British trees

As part of the manifesto commitment to plant 11 million trees over the next Parliament, UK has announced its intention to provide one million to be planted in a community programme with local schools.