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From ambition to action: conference builds momentum for early years summit
Global Youth Ambassadors speak up for children at UN week events
Business champions to help shape historic early years summit
Busker Nicola’s song inspires sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½’s Syrian refugee video
She's been singing in the street to raise funds for our projects to help vulnerable children into school in Lebanon.
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20 reasons why, in 2020, there are still 260m children out of school
Millions more are in classrooms but don't get a quality education - here we look at some of the causes of a global learning crisis.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Rebuilding cyclone-hit schools in Myanmar, a call to fund Palestinian education and 5,000 new early years centres in Rwanda are in our roundup.
Why advocating for early childhood education must be local as well as global
International donors are crucial - but educating and informing key decision-makers within countries like Kenya is also vital if young children are to develop the basic skills they need.
Expert Voices
Five things you need to know this week about global education
Our news roundup looks at a major breakthrough for the schooling of Rohingya refugee children and two new global champions for education in emergencies.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
A shocking stat about the world's poorest girls, education chaos caused by a volcano and learning through play - they're all in our news roundup.
How schools around the world are preparing children for jobs of the future
As leaders meet at the World Economic Forum, the urgent need to give young people the skills they need to succeed after education is a major theme.
He dropped out of school aged five … now Samuel Adewumi is our Global Youth Ambassador of the Year
The Nigerian activist has been honoured by sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s network of education activists for his inspiring work with vulnerable children.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
A big push to deliver education to children in Niger, attacks on schools in Kenya and Ukraine, and a movie star's appeal over refugees feature in our news roundup.
Five things you need to know this week about global education
A new year, a new decade - but sadly attacks on children just trying to get an education continue to feature in our news roundup.