United Kingdom First British female medical students get degrees 150 years later The "Edinburgh Seven" enrolled at university in 1869 but were prevented from graduating and qualifying as doctors after pressure and discrimination from their male peers. 06/07/2019
Canada Picture of Quebec education minister with Malala stirs controversy The Canadian province recently adopted a law barring teachers and other civil servants from wearing religious symbols. 06/07/2019
Inspire Middle East Will an Emirati businessman succeed in towing an iceberg to the UAE? An Emirati businessman wants to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to the Arabian Gulf. 05/07/2019
Inspire Middle East Little inventors come up with big ideas in the UAE Investing in inventors is how some countries in the Middle East and North Africa are looking to enrich and enhance their societies. 05/07/2019
France Hundreds of schools closed throughout France as temperatures top 40C Hundreds of kindergartens and primary schools throughout France will remain closed until the end of the week as temperatures top 40C in many cities. 26/06/2019
United Kingdom Britain's top jobs dominated by private school elite — report Britain’s most influential people are five times more likely to have been to a fee-paying school, according to research. 25/06/2019
Poland Watch: Aspiring mechanic shifts into top gear with 3D-printed arm The prosthetic arm is the result of a project between Wawro's classmates and the E-Nable foundation, a community of volunteers who use their 3D printers to create free arms and hands for those in need. 21/06/2019
Ireland You're welcome back home: Ireland's message to ex-pat teachers Irish education minister visits Dubai where many teachers have gone to earn a better living. 21/06/2019
Germany German teenagers teach school children about digital stress While their parents grew up without smartphones, two-thirds of kids in Germany have them by the age of 11. 20/06/2019
France Exam-bound student misses bus and crashes car before police rescue French police say they stepped in to rescue a student who missed a bus and then crashed a car in trying to get to an exam. 18/06/2019
United Kingdom Brexit clouds European students' British dream Brexit, which is now scheduled for October 31, could lead EU citizens studying in the UK to pay international fees and lose their access to financial support. 03/06/2019
Aid Zone Education under threat in Hebron and the rest of the West Bank What is life like for Palestinian children living in the Israeli-controlled part of Hebron? What's the impact of the conflict on them and what's the role of the EU in reducing their trauma? 30/05/2019
Spain Meet the Spanish teenagers who hunt down celebrity spelling errors Celebrities in Spain would be well advised to brush up on their spelling and grammar — lest they find themselves hunted down by a class of teenage spell-checkers who are publicly calling out written mistakes found on social media. 29/05/2019
target Why education is big business in Dubai The UAE has the highest concentration of university branch campuses in the world and most are in Dubai. With a 2 billion euro revenue from annual tuition fees, the education sector in the city is big business. 23/05/2019
Iraq Watch: Retired teacher keeps kids off video games at Iraq street schoo Khamis Ali sets up his open-air classroom in the street outside his house. 10/05/2019
View LGBT education in the UK must not stop with children when adults are part of the problem ǀ View The UK’s track record for the discussion of LGBT+ topics in the classroom remains poor. But all that could change is parents get behind the changes being introduced by the government. 10/04/2019
View Abidjan Principles must pass three crucial tests in order to strengthen right to education ǀ View Increasingly autocratic States are pushing nativist narratives through national curricula, where schools face more centralized political controls and where the academic freedom of teachers is under attack. Are the Abidjan Principles robust enough to support the fight back against these tendencies? 26/03/2019
Romania Teaching young Romanians to fly away from unemployment A school for flight attendants is proving a hit. 21/03/2019
Norway American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck becomes first woman to win Able Prize Karen Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin became the first woman to be awarded what many consider to be the “Nobel” of math, which is handed out annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. 20/03/2019
France 'Sex education is not porn': Instagram backlash after account removal An Instagram account providing sex education with illustrations of body parts was taken down following complaints, then reinstated after receiving criticism for its action. 07/03/2019
View "My dream of a magic school faded... What I want is equality" ǀ View Living with a disability is challenging, and no more so than for 14-year-old Rijad Mehmeti. Living with cerebal palsy in Kosovo, he dreamed of a magic school where he could enjoy his education. Now, he dreams of equality for all children to enjoy their education, regardless of disability. 07/03/2019
focus Building resilience in the face of disaster More than two decades since a devastating earthquake, Focus travels to the Japanese city of Kobe to see how the city has rebuilt itself and find out how it turned the disaster into an opportunity. 27/02/2019
Art and Design Inside Budapest's green new campus It just got the coveted BREEAM certification. 27/02/2019
Aid Zone Malian refugees in Mauritania: education in an emergency context Aid Zone travels to the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania to see what is being done to educate the refugee minors from Mali in order to protect them from early forced marriage and child labour. 21/02/2019
France French MPs vote for mandatory EU flags in classrooms "Schools are not barracks," said one MP critical of the move. 12/02/2019
