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Education is an “essential pillar” to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UN chief António Guterres told an audience on Tuesday at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization, ahead of the agency’s General Conference.

Nine children were killed when a landmine exploded as they walked to school in Afghanistan. It's the latest shocking incident in a country where more than 1,000 schools were shut down last year by the ongoing conflict.

A group of clinical psychologists has spent the last two years working in schools with large Syrian student bodies to build bonds between the two communities, train teachers to recognize and help troubled children and treat their psychic wounds.

A new database launched today by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) captures the severe educational challenges faced by people with disabilities. The database confirms that people with disabilities are less likely to ever go to school, more likely to be out of school and have fewer years of education than people without disabilities.

As the global education targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals slip further out of reach, the World Bank is calling on countries to focus their efforts around a new, simpler target — to at least halve “learning poverty,” defined as the number of 10-year-old children unable to read a simple story, by 2030.

Under UN guidelines, refugee children are supposed to be taught either the curriculum of their host country or that of their homeland.

UNESCO’s Her Education Rights Atlas (HER Atlas) is designed to measure the degree of protection of girls’ and women’s education rights in national legal frameworks. Her Atlas was launched at the G7 France/UNESCO international conference on girls’ education in July and is part of UNESCO’s ‘Her education, our future’ Initiative.

In her first address as Assistant High Commissioner for Protection before UNHCR’s 70th Executive Committee meeting, Gillian Triggs called the Global Compact on Refugees a “game changer” for international responsibility-sharing for refugees, stating that it marks an end to “business as usual” in refugee responses. “It provides a blueprint, ensuring that host communities get the time

When conflict and displacement turn children's worlds upside down, they can become aggressive, isolated and unfocused. These behaviours are particularly problematic when they happen at school - especially if teachers don't know how to spot and deal with the effects of trauma. In Turkey a project called Trauma Informed Schools - supported by Theirworld and run by the Istanbul-based organisati

More than 2 million children are unable to return to school due to ongoing security risks across the West and Central African region. There are an estimated 9,288 schools closed and 44,000 teachers who will not be able to reach their classrooms, while schools are starting again.