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Jordan

'TIGER Girls`getting young Syrian refugee women back to school

With many Syrian refugee girls being forced into marriage or worse by hardship in Jordanian camps, the "TIGER Girls" NGO is getting them back to school.

Poland

Poland rips up school system in rapid reform

Changes made in 1999 are being reversed as the government closes 'unequal' junior high schools.

World News

Oxford, Cambridge top world university rankings

Oxford held on to first place for the second year in a row in the latest Times Higher Education ranking, while Cambridge rose from fourth to second.

Iran

Iran bans teachers with acne, unsightly moles and dental problems

Rules also exclude women with facial hair or fertility problems from classrooms

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United Kingdom

Taliban target Malala Yousafzai wins place at Oxford University

Malala, 17, was shot in the head in 2012 by a Taliban gunman. Now she's got a place at one of the world's most prestigious universities.

Germany

Report find sexual abuse at one of Germany's most famous Catholic boys' choir schools

547 pupils at Germany's most famous Catholic boys' choir schools, Regensburger Domspatzen, were physically or sexually abused over a 60-year period, according to a report.

World News

Who are the Erasmus programme's famous alumni?

Established in 1987, the Erasmus programme offers university students the opportunity to study in a foreign country and to have the exams that they completed abroad recognised on their return.

France

What is the bac?

Held up as a gold standard amongst qualifications for school leavers, what is the French bac?

Germany

German school evacuated after child brings in bomb

A kindergarten near Frankfurt was evacuated today after a child found a World War Two bomb, and brought it to class

Europe News

Europe and the digital economy

Europe’s future lies in a digital economy But the continent faces a skill shortage.

World News

School's out for summer: Which European students have the longest holidays?

Business Planet

Social start-up is turning Molenbeek into Molengeek

Molengeek is an IT incubator situated in Molenbeek, the poor and much-maligned neighbourhood in Brussels.

Turkey

Turkey to implement mosques in schools under new rules

Turkey’s Education Ministry unveiled new regulations this week that require every new school in the country be outfitted with gender-separated Muslim prayer rooms.

Cyprus

97-year-old graduates in Cyprus

Constandinos Georgiades went back to school at 80, before taking his degree at the University of Cyprus

Belgium

So what's really in the Koran? How some Belgian schools address the question

Teachers are using a new book to help students decide for themselves.

World

Refugees: integration through education

Access to schooling is essential to allow refugees to rebuild their lives.

Europe News

Erasmus turns 30

Thirty years old and still going strong.

World News

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World News

UNICEF report reveals five-fold increase of unaccompanied child migrants

A new UNICEF report reveals the number of refugee and migrant children travelling alone has reached a record high.

Belgium

Belgian school language book for migrants causes offence

A Brussels school has revised a French language book designed to help asylum seekers integrate, after some phrases linked migrants to extremism.