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Major new philanthropic commitments back education amid global conflict and pressure on aid systems
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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
Play is the brain’s favourite way of learning
To mark Universal Children's Day today, we look at the importance of playing in the development of young children.
“How a community built toilets that will help to keep children, especially girls, in school”
To mark World Toilet Day on November 19, a Global Youth Ambassador from Cameroon tells of a building project that will transform students' lives.
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‘Climate change steals and destroys’: Fijian children urge world leaders to protect their schools and lives
The students, aged 10 and 12, addressed the COP23 global conference in Germany after winning a schools speech competition.
Helping children stay in school is key to ending child labour
But countries need to do much more to ensure access to education, experts argued at a global conference in Argentina.
Groundbreaking research on premature babies’ brains could help to spot children who need extra learning support
Scientists at the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory in Edinburgh have made a discovery that could improve the future for many young children.
“The Makoko Dream School is a school on water for children in urban slum”
How do you help to educate children who have only known life on water? One of our Global Youth Ambassadors tells about a project in Nigeria to teach them where they feel most at home.
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Menstruation clubs break taboos and keep Ethiopian girls in school
The dropout rate has decreased thanks to the clubs, where boys also learn about periods and girls are given sanitary pads.
Youth skills champion from Ghana wins WISE Prize for Education
Dr Patrick Awuah was honoured for his work in empowering and transforming the lives of students through education.
EU funding helps Turkey to focus on goal of educating every Syrian refugee child
Turkey has spent more than $30 billion on helping its refugees - and the European Union has promised to continue its financial aid.
‘End this abuse’: campaigner spreads message about child marriage in the USA
Marriage under the age of 18 is still legal to some extent in all 50 American states - but Fraidy Reiss and her organisation are trying to change that.