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Denmark is Education Cannot Wait’s (ECW) third largest donor, with US$79.1 million in contributions to date.

A new report has warned that education systems worldwide face a ‘reckoning’ unless the needs of students and societies are met. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report, titled: ‘New schools of thought: Innovative models for delivering higher education’, was commissioned by the Qatar Foundation (QF), a non-profit organization made up of more than 50 entities working in education, research, an

As countries around the world start to reopen their economies and consider how to safely reopen schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, international development experts say they are worried that tens of millions of students in the world’s poorest nations may never go back to class. Alice Albright, chief executive of the Global Partnership for Education, said that the combination of the

Half of the total number of learners – some 826 million students – kept out of the classroom by the COVID-19 pandemic, do not have access to a household computer and 43% (706 million) have no internet at home, at a time when digitally-based distance learning is used to ensure educational continuity in the vast majority of countries.

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will provide US$250 million to help developing countries mitigate both the immediate and long-term disruptions to education being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Right now students are out of school in 185 countries. According to UNESCO, that's roughly 9 out of 10 schoolchildren worldwide. The world has never seen a school shutdown on this scale. And not since Great Britain during World War II has such a long-term, widespread emptying of classrooms come to a rich country.

Almost nine out of every 10 children enrolled in classes is not going to school because of the coronavirus outbreak. Americans can learn from examples around the world.

WITH the spike in confirmed Covid-19 cases and halting of learning at institutions of higher education, I suspect the current school break may have to be extended for a longer period.

With many families staying at home and millions more facing job, food, and medical insecurity, the LEGO Foundation and the LEGO Group have joined forces to address the critical needs of children in these unprecedented times.

Close to 80% of the world’s student population – 1.3 billion children and youth – is affected by school closures in 138 countries. Taken as a measure to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, some of these closures are recent, in others they have already been in place for months.