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Youth Champions gather early years insights for world leaders
Youth champions to tell world leaders why they must Act For Early Years
Meet the seven winners of our latest Education Innovation Awards
Safe spaces help young Rohingya refugee children recover from trauma
Child-friendly facilities make vulnerable youngsters feel secure - and help them to develop through play and learning.Â
EU programme helps 230,000 refugee children into Turkish schools
The cash transfer scheme is for vulnerable families whose children regularly go to classes.
Meet the 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2018
Each one is an amazing educator - but only one can win the $1m award for making an outstanding contribution to teaching.
“Roses are red, learning is cool … 14 reasons why we love school”
February 14 is Valentine's Day - we hear from students (and a teacher) about why their heart and their passion lies in education.
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UN welcomes $930m boost for education, nutrition and other aid for Yemen
The 2018 plan for the war-torn country includes repairing 1400 schools and nutritional help for 5.6 million children.
15 years in jail for first man to be convicted of kidnapping Chibok schoolgirls
The 35-year-old admitted to being involved in the 2014 mass abduction by Boko Haram that shocked the world, said a Nigerian justice official.
“As President of Students Against Corruption, I use radio to reach out to people in rural places”
On World Radio Day, a Global Youth Ambassador from Liberia tells how reaching out across the airwaves can help to expose dishonesty by those in power.
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Catching up: Syrian children who missed out on years of school
Some teenage students are just learning to read and write after years of conflict robbed them of education.
Educating children ‘is the only hope for the future of Iraq’
As a summit on reconstructing the conflict-torn country begins, we talk in depth to UNICEF's representative in Iraq about schooling and peacebuilding.
“I have trained more than 2000 females in one year about being aware of breast cancer”
For International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, we asked our Global Youth Ambassadors to share their stories.
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