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Motivating teachers to maximise their pupils' potential

When we talk about improving education, teachers are obviously at the heart of the debate – but rethinking approaches and changing methods is tough

19/02/2016

Hungary

Protesters slam Hungary's 'shameful' education policy

Education reforms critics say overtax pupils and teachers alike brought thousands of teachers, students and union members onto the streets of

13/02/2016

World

Bright ideas: Exploring the importance of light on learning

Can adjustable lighting in classrooms affect educational achievement? And what about schools that have no electricity at all? We explore the impact

05/02/2016

World News

Syrian donors' conference calls for $9 billion

Seventy world leaders to attend Syria donors’ conference UN hopes to raise $9 billion to secure futures for refugees Aim is to avoid a ‘lost

04/02/2016

World

South Africa's "Virgin Scholarship" unconstitutional; human rights groups claim

A decision by Uthukela in KwaZulu -Natal municipality in South Africa to offer university scholarships to “virgins” has been denounced by feminists

24/01/2016

World

Setting emergency standards for aid and education

This edition of Learning World looks at crisis education, and crisis management; two schools, two approaches to tackling disasters professionally

22/01/2016

Culture news

Will.i.am: 'Education is the best gun control'

Euronews recently caught up with seven-time Grammy award laureate Will.i.am as he performed in the French city of Lyon. The co-founder and frontman

15/01/2016

Denmark

Denmark expels top student for working too many hours

Denmark has expelled a top undergraduate for working too many hours. The country allows non-EU students to work up to fifteen hours a week at

09/01/2016

World

WISE Awards: Qatar maths and science push and Argentina Videobooks win praise

Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and education for people with disabilities regularly top the agenda of the World Innovation Summit

08/01/2016

World

Innovative teaching to promote sustainability

Overconsumption, pollution, global warming – we are living on a planet strained by decades of excess. So, how do we teach the next generation to face

25/12/2015

Italy

Ex-porn star Rocco Siffredi calls for sex education in Italy's schools

Almost 23,000 people have signed a petition backing former porn star Rocco Siffredi’s call for sex education to be taught in Italian schools. In

24/12/2015

Turkey

EU opens school for Syrian refugee children in Turkey

Now in its fifth year, the conflict in Syria has become the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, aid agencies report. According to

16/12/2015

USA

USA: over a thousand LA schools closed following bomb threat

More than 1,000 schools were closed in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday after education authorities received a bomb threat. The Los Angeles Unified

15/12/2015

World News

Call South Sudan's leaders to account on child soldiers says report

The army base at Pibor in Southern Sudan is new, within a stone’s throw of the school whose classrooms its soldiers occupied for several years until

15/12/2015

World

Dealing with diversity in the classroom

Today’s news is overwhelmed with questions on multiculturalism, diversity and peace. In this edition we take a look at how education can play a very

11/12/2015

World

Education projects in Egypt and Uganda win 2015 Wise Awards

Egypt-based Nafham and the Educate! project in Uganda have been named WISE Awards winners at this year's World Innovation Summit for Education in Doha. This edition of Learning World looks into what t

27/11/2015

Europe News

Schools reopen in Brussels

Schools have started to reopen in Brussels after a four-day security clampdown that followed the Paris attacks. But some parents worry whether it is

25/11/2015

World

A life's work: WISE Prize winner Sakena Yacoobi on transforming education in Afghanistan

Sakena Yacoobi has touched the lives of more than 12 million people with her tireless efforts to transform education in Afghanistan. Now her work has

13/11/2015

World

Hope vs harsh reality: challenges to global education goals in the 21st century

The newly-adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs and the role education plays in achieving them have been at the heart of this year’s

06/11/2015

World

Digital divide: Universities not equipping students for 21st-century workplace

More than 1,500 opinion leaders, teachers and students at the WISE summit in Doha have been discussing some of the key issues of education, such as

05/11/2015