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France

A year on, how is Samuel Paty's murder being felt in French schools?

Some teachers admit they are choosing their words very carefully.

France

Record 6,000 drop in Paris pupil numbers amid COVID and remote working

Paris' deputy mayor said it was down to a declining birth rate and the effects of the COVID pandemic.

Culture news

Could learning chess in school help us in our moves through life?

A new program devised by female chess superstar Judit Polgá hopes to inspire a more unique approach to educational systems.

Mobility

Why French students and Thomas Pesquet are getting excited about Blobs

Better known as "slime mould," 500-million-year-old Blob is now under the microscope of thousands of students and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.

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Earth News

Students replace teachers to demand teaching on climate change

A global campaign has students taking over from teachers to bring climate change issues to the front of the class.

Germany

Disadvantaged children in Germany bear the brunt of school closures

Disadvantaged families in Germany have been hit hard by the pandemic. Problems that already existed have been made worse and many parents lost their service sector jobs. 'Die Arche' is an association trying to help these families by giving the children a meal and a hand with education.

Afghanistan

Taliban excludes girls from secondaries and shuts women's ministry

The Taliban ordered boys and male teachers to return to secondary schools on Saturday but made no mention of girls. The ministry for women's affairs has been renamed the Ministry of Vice and Virtue.

The Cube

France's education minister condemns #Anti2010 cyberbullying

Jean-Michel Blanquer has asked the headteachers to "reinforce vigilance" against online harassment and insults.

Afghanistan

Taliban say women can study in gender-segregated universities

Euronews' Anelise Borges reports from Kabul as the new Taliban government outlines sweeping education policies banning women and men from studying side by side.

Cyprus

Cyprus removes school textbook over praise of Turkey founder Ataturk

Cyprus said that the contents of the English textbook were "completely inappropriate and unacceptable".

Italy

Afghan girls pursue football dream in Italy after fleeing Taliban

They used to play in a football team in Herat but when the regime swept to power, the girls decided to escape, fearing for their lives.

Sci-Tech

Summer School for Female Leadership aims to close gender gap

In partnership with Huawei

Women in leadership positions are still not a matter of course. The Summer School for Female Leadership aims to foster young hopefuls, teaching them to code, to speak publicly with confidence and work on their careers

Afghanistan

Afghan girls feel 'hopeless' about their education under Taliban rule

Young Afghan students told Euronews that their families worried about them going to school and that they felt "hopeless" about the future.

Cry Like A Boy

Here’s why we should raise boys like girls | View

Craig Pomranz is a singer, actor and author based in the United States and argues narrow gender expectations are limiting childrens’ growth.

Earth News

Euroviews. This is the one thing medical schools are not teaching doctors

GP Chris Newman asks the question, what is the point of my job if we don't prevent climate change?

Afghanistan

UNICEF 'cautiously optimistic' over preserving Afghan education gains

It comes amid concern the swift Taliban takeover of the country will reverse progress made over the last two decades.

Work

Denmark unveils a new school without desks to encourage creativity

Frello School, named after local artist Otto Frello, has a particularity: the school was designed without desks.

Mobility

500 million-year-old 'Blob' that can think is being blasted into space

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be experimenting with how the curious organism behaves in zero-gravity on the International Space Station.

Conscious Travel

What is Indigenous tourism and is it sustainable?

Indigenous travel experiences that help, rather than hinder, the world’s oldest communities.

United Kingdom

UK replacement for Erasmus programme receives 40,000 applications

The British government has approved tens of thousands of applications for a new study abroad programme, launched after the UK left the EU’s Erasmus programme following Brexit.