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Global education

The latest news, analysis and comment on global education

July 2024

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Young people gather on a hilltop called the 'roof of Tehran' to watch the sunset. Photo: Stefanie Glinski

    ‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran

June 2024

  • A girl in a hijab puts her hand over her face as she cries

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school

    Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no end in sight

April 2024

  • Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the Presidential villa Abuja<br>Oby Ezekwesili and Aisha Yesufu, leaders of the "Bring back our girls" campaign group, discuss during their visit to the presidential villa in Abuja, Nigeria, January 14, 2016. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

    Opinion
    #BringBackOurGirls fought to keep global attention on Nigeria’s stolen Chibok girls. Ten years on it is still fighting

    Helon Habila
    The campaign that came to prominence when 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their classes in 2014 has had an impact beyond its first rallying cries
  • Children sit attentively on the ground while a man holds up large, colourful book.

    Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library

    In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Karachi is reaching thousands of children in slums
  • The message 'end epilepsy stigma' is seen written on seven hands joined together

    A common condition
    The ‘epilepsy warriors’ breaking down the barriers in Cameroon

    Amid alarming rates of the illness, many living with it are seen as cursed. Now these myths are being challenged

February 2024

  • Women and girls sit in a circle at a community help group run by the Neem Foundation in Sokoto State, Nigeria

    ‘They only knew how to fight’: school helps girls to heal after Boko Haram

  • Children dressed in yellow school shirts sit in rows, some with raised hands ready to answer a question.

    Opinion
    Africa is the world’s youngest continent – education is key to unlocking its potential

    Nana Akufo-Addo and Jakaya Kikwete

January 2024

  • A poster ordering women to cover themselves with a hijab is pictured at a private university.

    Rights and freedom
    Afghan girls detained and lashed by Taliban for violating hijab rules

    Girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’

December 2023

  • Two rows of young boys sit on the floor reading

    Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan

  • A child waits at the entrance of Bridge International Academies in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.

    World Bank accused of ‘turning blind eye’ to sexual abuse in Kenyan schools it funded

October 2023

  • Two facing lines of schoolgirls create a tunnel with their outstretched hands as others duck through

    Girls in Africa quitting school over cost of living crisis, says charity

  • A male teacher with a class of children sitting at wooden desks in Sierra Leone

    World needs 44m more teachers in order to educate every child, report finds

September 2023

  • Three people standing next to two telescopes look up at a starry night sky with the Milky Way visible.

    ‘I want to see the first African woman in space’: the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the people

    Susan Murabana’s passion for astronomy was only sparked in her 20s as science was just ‘for boys’. Now she tours Kenya with a telescope on a mission to reveal the cosmos to all children
  • Schoolchildren in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, wait outside their school before classes start.

    Quarter of schools closed in Burkina Faso as fighting escalates after coup

    Nearly 1 million children denied education, along with many more across eight countries in central and west Africa, new report warns
  • A woman in a black chador draws on a piece of paper watched by a young girl, with the angle of photo meaning both faces are obscured by hair and hijab, presumably to protect their identity

    Women in Afghanistan are fighting an unequal war. We need your support

    Zahra Joya
    The Taliban have barred us from the workplace, cut our access to healthcare and closed schools to us. Must we struggle alone?

July 2023

  • A man walks past a mural showing a scared woman with a hand over her face, hands grabbing another woman, and a noose, with the slogan: 'Real men don't rape!'

    Student’s sexual assault and murder shows women’s safety in India ‘not a priority’

    Despite reforms, campaigners say Mumbai killing proves lack of progress in protecting students since 2012 ‘Nirbhaya’ gang-rape

June 2023

  • A person operating a large drone beside rows of tea plants

    Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment

    Mahamudu Bawumia
    As tech changes the world, Ghana has the young experts to unlock the next industrial revolution, says the vice-president

May 2023

  • Children at their desks in a primary school class in the Philippines.

    Ban weekend homework for overworked Filipino pupils, says lawmaker

  • Two young Malawian boys with dreadlocks

    Malawi’s Rastafarian children return to school after ban on dreadlocks is lifted

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