Över 25 000 skolstrejkande ungdomar samlades i Berlin. Ytterligare 15 000 protesterade i hela Tyskland. Vid Brandenburg torg höll klimatkämpen Greta Thunberg tal. ”Tack till er alla!”, skriver hon på Instagram.
Breast ironing awareness should be made part of the mandatory school curriculum to protect young girls from abuse, the National Education Union has said.
Extremism should be treated as a global problem like climate change, says Tony Blair, speaking about the role of education in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
The Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training launched a "School of computational thinking" for the academic year 2018/19. The main objective is to train teachers on computational thinking and technology. In this way, they will incorporate these skills within their classroom's educational resources, as computational thinking is a fundamental new skill and can help…
In 2015 the United Nations launched a global call-to-action towards sustainable development, setting the Sustainable Development Goals to drive change in the world by 2030. The connection between the SDGs and education is made with Goal no 4 on the list: "Quality Education". But what does quality education mean in this global context and where…
Approaches to integration of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in schools vary widely in Europe. In particular, the teaching language to be used with newly-arrived migrant pupils can be a controversial topic. Should they learn only the host country language or should they be encouraged to keep their mother tongue?