An extra $250m (£174m) emergency funding will be provided for educating Syrian refugee children this year, the UN global education envoy Gordon Brown is announcing in New York.

‘Double-shift’ schools in Lebanon have shown it can be done. It is imperative that money is found to give all young refugees the hope that education provides.

For children born in 2000, where they live is a more powerful predictor of academic success than it was for those born in 1970, report claims.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is heading a new commission aimed at finding out why and what can be done.

Where children grow up in England is more likely to determine success or failure at school than in previous generations, a think tank study suggests.

Where a pupil is born is now thought to be key to their educational performance. Sanchia Berg visits one school trying to redress the balance.

Cap on teachers' pay putting graduates off entering the profession, leading to recruitment "crisis" putting education at risk, teaching unions have warned.

There are more effective ways to protect Muslim pupils than the government’s Prevent strategy, says a Muslim educator.

Headteachers and experts warn that pressure on schools to ‘spy’ on students will fail to stop radicalisation – but risks alienating young Muslims.

Nästan ett av fyra barn som växer upp i ett konfliktområde går miste om sin utbildning. Värst drabbat är Sydsudan, Niger, Sudan och Afghanistan, enligt FN:s barnfond Unicef.

Minst tre elever har dödats sedan en högstadieskola träffats av en granat i Khostprovinsen i östra Afghanistan, enligt utbildningsdepartementet. Ytterligare åtta personer har skadats.

Nio månader efter al-Shabaabs blodiga angrepp har högskolan i Garissa i Kenya öppnat igen. Minst 148 människor dödades på skolan som hade omkring 800 studenter när den somaliska extremistgruppen slog till.