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Benghazi, Libya (PANA) - Libya's Omar Mokhtar University, based in Benghazi in the east, has signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Malaysian academic institutions for joint academic and training programmes and strengthening academic and training cooperation.This is part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen the University's academic and research [...]
©- - 07 october 2025 - 14:17:13 - thread Society (352 words)


  Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - For millions of girls in Afghanistan, it has been four long years since the ban on secondary education came into force, one of many rights abuses rolled out by the de facto authorities since they regained control of Kabul.At the time of the ban, girls like [...]
©- - 17 september 2025 - 16:53:00 - thread Society (1072 words)


Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - The denial of access to education for Palestinian children for three consecutive academic years, combined with the killing of thousands of students and the destruction of educational infrastructure, is a humanitarian emergency and a grave breach of international law.According to the Palestinian Ministry of Education [...]
©- - 17 september 2025 - 05:19:41 - thread Society (466 words)


Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - “Instead of studying in school, we’re living in it,” said Diana, summing up the conditions faced by thousands of children in the Gaza Strip whose lives have been turned upside down by war who now face the prospect of a third year without education.“We carry [...]
©- - 03 september 2025 - 07:24:27 - thread Society (846 words)


Washington, DC., USA (PANA) - Education equips learners with important foundational skills that are essential for work and life. Education is a foundation for good jobs and the surest way out of poverty. We know a good education equips learners with important foundational skills—literacy, numeracy, and socio-emotional competencies—which are essential for [...]
©- - 27 august 2025 - 08:26:24 - thread Society (1038 words)


Antananarivo, Madagascar (PANA) - Around 4.7 million Malagasy students in pre-primary and primary education, 135,000 teachers, and 27,000 public primary schools across the country will directly benefit from the newly approved Transforming Access and Learning in Madagascar (TALIM) Project. With a total budget of $185 million, including $150 million from the [...]
©- - 24 july 2025 - 07:26:40 - thread Society (615 words)


Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - The Governments of Mauritania and Chad on Tuesday signed funding agreements for the Regional Engagement for Learning and Collaboration in Education (RELANCE) Project, supported by the World Bank and the Federal Republic of Germany, for a total of $137 million.This ambitious project aims to transform education [...]
©- - 23 july 2025 - 07:36:02 - thread Society (601 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - From makeshift furniture in Gaza to metro classrooms in Ukraine and solar-powered tablets in Sudan, the UN is working to bring education to millions of crisis-affected children.Of the 234 million school-age children affected by conflict globally, 85 million children are completely out of school.  The figures [...]
©- - 17 july 2025 - 16:20:25 - thread Society (962 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global life expectancy increased by an astonishing five years between 2000 and 2019. And then since the COVID-19 pandemic, it slid backwards by almost two. More than 110 million children have entered school since 2015 – but by 2023, 272 million children still had no access to [...]
©- - 14 july 2025 - 20:13:45 - thread Society (917 words)


Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – With nearly 200 million children and youth missing out on secondary school worldwide while another 72 million kids who should be in primary school are not, the global education figures make for grim reading, Human Rights Watch says the global education is in crisis.“Compared [...]
©- - 08 july 2025 - 12:27:51 - thread Society (399 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Most African governments have consistently failed to meet global and regional education funding targets to ensure quality public education, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday on Africa Union's Day of the African Child.The 2025 theme for the day is ,“Planning and budgeting for children's rights: progress [...]
©- - 16 june 2025 - 08:20:10 - thread Society (964 words)


Asosa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Through its dual focus on service harmonisation and integration, the World Bank-supported GEQIP-E helped align refugee education in Ethiopia with national standards, ensuring more equitable, better-quality education for refugee students.Under GEQIP-E, 64 refugee schools were integrated into Ethiopia’s national education system for the first time, benefiting [...]
©- - 04 june 2025 - 09:28:12 - thread Society (1030 words)


Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school. According to UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, more than 290 schools have been damaged or destroyed [...]
©- - 01 june 2025 - 05:21:36 - thread Society (242 words)


Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The world economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the past four decades. Global GDP per capita doubled in real terms, driven by the rise of China and India and by significant growth elsewhere. Much of these gains accrued to the global poor. The proportion [...]
©- - 30 april 2025 - 08:33:14 - thread Society (1675 words)


Accra, Ghana (PANA) - About 500 participants, including more than 80 Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence (ACEs), policy makers, higher education leaders, industry experts, and development partners have gathered in Accra, Ghana, from April 7 to 9, for a three-day celebration marking the tenth anniversary of the ACE programme, [...]
©- - 08 april 2025 - 09:51:05 - thread Society (881 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Africa Children’s Summit 2025 which ended in Johannesburg on Monday brought together some of the brightest and courageous young leaders from across the continent. The summit, which was hosted by the South African Government in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, was held under [...]
©- - 08 april 2025 - 06:03:14 - thread Society (194 words)


Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Wisam sits in her classroom, absorbed in her work, her fingers gripping a blue-coloured pencil, carefully sketching a flower in her notebook, one of more than 100,000 displaced students in war-torn Sudan who have returned to classes, with the support of Education Cannot Wait for [...]
©- - 27 february 2025 - 19:45:45 - thread Society (1060 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Menab, 8, from Ethiopia attends a school without electricity and has never used the internet. His teacher, Bethel, 25, wants to take a mobile-based teacher training course but can't afford the data. With his teacher’s support, Hendrik, 14, from Estonia accesses and uses state-provided interactive digital [...]
©- - 25 february 2025 - 08:40:30 - thread Society (836 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Transforming the basic education sector by improving the quality of learning from an early age can drive inclusive growth in South Africa, according to a new World Bank report.The report, released on Tuesday, also provides an analysis of the country’s recent economic performance and [...]
©- - 05 february 2025 - 08:31:44 - thread Society (881 words)


Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - In Burkina Faso, thousands of displaced people are demonstrating remarkable resilience in the face of hardships caused by insecurity. Thanks to education and agriculture projects, displaced children, women and men are rebuilding their lives, guided by hope, bravery and solidarity.Joseph Yambo, in his sixties, lives [...]
©- - 31 january 2025 - 12:31:56 - thread Society (1115 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has warned.Heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts are among the dangers that have made the global learning crisis worse, new UNICEF analysis [...]
©- - 25 january 2025 - 17:56:14 - thread Society (181 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Marking the International Day of Education, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasized learning as a basic human right and foundation for individual and societal growth.His message highlighted the dual nature of technological advances such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), which offer immense potential – but also pose considerable [...]
©- - 25 january 2025 - 07:43:48 - thread Society (603 words)


Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - With support from the World Bank Group, Côte d’Ivoire will complete a debt-for-development swap, a transaction designed to improve the country’s debt profile and generate significant fiscal savings. The money saved by replacing expensive debt with cheaper financing will be used to improve education across the [...]
©- - 06 december 2024 - 08:47:28 - thread Society (571 words)


Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Amid growing calls to invest in human capital and expand job opportunities for Africa’s burgeoning youth population, a new report underscores the challenges faced by a critical demographic: Africa’s adolescent girls. In sub-Saharan Africa, over half of girls aged 15 to 19 are either out [...]
©- - 21 november 2024 - 17:55:17 - thread Society (716 words)


Paris, France (PANA) - Despite decades of educational progress and international commitments, a quarter of a billion children and youth remain out of school worldwide, the latest Global Education Monitoring Report by UN education agency, UNESCO, said on Thursday. The findings reveal that global efforts to ensure universal education have hit a [...]
©- - 01 november 2024 - 06:35:25 - thread Society (416 words)


Washington, DC. United States (PANA - A compendium of impact evaluations provides policymakers and practitioners with actionable information to enhance evidence-based decision-making in education. The importance of education in fostering economic and human capital development cannot be overstated. As recent research has shown, education accounts for 50 percent of global economic [...]
©- - 16 october 2024 - 07:31:10 - thread Society (775 words)


Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Despite signs of a fragile economic recovery, Sub-Saharan Africa, remains stuck in “low gear” with a large youth population at risk of being left behind. According to the latest edition of Africa Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly regional economic update released on Monday, two factors [...]
©- - 14 october 2024 - 14:42:34 - thread Society (547 words)


New York, US (PANA) - A new $1.5 billion investment, announced on Thursday, will boost education and skills development for millions of the world’s children and youth most in need, UN News reported. The commitment by the International Finance Facility for Education (IFFEd) will address the dire but often forgotten global [...]
©- - 27 september 2024 - 05:59:41 - thread Society (556 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The World Bank has approved new funding to empower and build the skills of more than 200,000 youths in Rwanda through the Priority Skills for Growth and Youth Empowerment (PSGYE) Programme.According to the Bank’s announcement, the $200 million PSGYE programme, funded by the International Development Association [...]
©- - 11 september 2024 - 10:22:14 - thread Society (402 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Monday would have marked the start of the new school year in Gaza, but the ongoing war continues to deprive hundreds of thousands of children of this fundamental right, UN agencies have warned.Almost 625,000 children in the enclave have already lost an entire school year following [...]
©- - 10 september 2024 - 05:23:11 - thread Society (636 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of attacks on students, teachers and schools, resulting in an “incalculable cost” for children affected by conflict around the world, Secretary-General António Guterres said a message commemorating the International Day to Protect Education from Attack [...]
©- - 10 september 2024 - 05:06:34 - thread Society (591 words)


Dakar. Senegal (PANA) - More than 14,000 schools have had to close across West and Central Africa due to violence and insecurity, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA has reported.OCHA said that by June this year, 2.8 million children - including many who are displaced - had been left without access [...]
©- - 06 september 2024 - 05:06:05 - thread Society (209 words)


Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The government of Zambia has laid out an ambitious plan to universalize primary and secondary education. The Education for All (EFA) initiative is crucial for Zambia's future. It aims to transform educational opportunities for all young Zambians. Starting in 2021, the EFA policy abolished all fees in [...]
©- - 22 august 2024 - 07:46:56 - thread Society (795 words)


Washington, United States (PANA) - To safeguard the progress achieved in the education sector against challenges posed by the current financial crisis in São Tomé and Príncipe, the World Bank Board of Directors has approved the Safeguarding Access to Fiscal and Educational Resources Project (SAFER) with a grant of $24 [...]
©- - 03 august 2024 - 09:58:17 - thread Society (320 words)


Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, launched a programme on Thursday to get boys and girls in the Gaza Strip back to learning – and to just being children – amid the ongoing conflict.“This first step in a much longer road focuses on activities that will [...]
©- - 02 august 2024 - 05:35:31 - thread Society (561 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The global crisis in education needs a “dramatic shift” to shape a more peaceful, sustainable and just world, the UN Secretary-General said on Thursday.António Guterres was taking part in a Special Event on Transforming Education – part of the on-going High Level Political Forum (HLPF) [...]
©- - 11 july 2024 - 18:01:28 - thread Society (617 words)


Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - A new package of World Bank support to Lesotho will see a major boost for the country’s education sector with work focused on enhancing infrastructure and physical learning conditions in targeted primary and secondary schools and improving the quality of teaching. The Lesotho Education Improvement Project, approved [...]
©- - 03 july 2024 - 06:42:08 - thread Society (398 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Some 115,110 students on Sunday began the final examinations for the first session of the secondary school leaving certificate, the baccalaureate, for the 2023-2024 school year, throughout Libya.There were 91,231 candidates in the scientific section, 23,452 in the literary section and 427 in the religious education [...]
©- - 23 june 2024 - 12:37:59 - thread Society (189 words)


Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Education is essential for people to succeed and for any country to grow. Mozambique has been working hard to improve education as part of its development plans. In 2018, the government changed its education laws to ensure that all kids can attend school for free from the [...]
©- - 19 june 2024 - 07:12:47 - thread Society (831 words)


Dakar, Senegal, (PANA) - The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says most African countries are not meeting their commitments to allocate the 20 per cent of their national budget benchmark on education, as recommended by the Sustainable Development Goal framework for action for education.This is contained in a new education financing [...]
©- - 16 june 2024 - 13:07:18 - thread Society (999 words)


Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – African governments should accelerate plans to guarantee free quality education from preschool through secondary education before 2030, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday on the African Union's Day of the African Child.HRW noted that Africa is the region with the world’s highest out-of-school population. In a report, [...]
©- - 16 june 2024 - 06:36:02 - thread Society (1150 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A delegation from the High Council of State and the Libyan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has met its Malaysian counterpart with their discussions focusing on the Malaysian experience in information and communications technology (ICT) and Islamic banking finance. The delegation visited the headquarters of [...]
©- - 27 april 2024 - 12:38:52 - thread Society (162 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN independent human rights experts on Thursday raised alarm over the “systematic destruction” of the Palestinian education system in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s military operation continues unabated. Since the 7 October attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian militants on southern Israel, and the ensuing military assault [...]
©- - 19 april 2024 - 05:25:44 - thread Society (524 words)


Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The UN Deputy Secretary-General on Thursday called for a transformation in learning, stressing that receiving a good education represents hope for all future generations. Addressing a high-level education on education convened by the European Union (EU) in Brussels, Amina Mohammed paid tribute in particular to the children of [...]
©- - 11 april 2024 - 17:00:35 - thread Society (497 words)


Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - At Morapeli High School in Lesotho, the atmosphere was buoyant as young adults in smart uniforms welcomed me and my team with song and dance. I explained that our visit, and a major part of our mission at the World Bank, is centred on supporting governments to [...]
©- - 27 february 2024 - 11:30:34 - thread Society (900 words)


Washington DC, USA (PANA) – The World Bank Group announced a $30 million grant to help ensure the continuity of crucial education for children in Palestine where unprecedented shocks hit the economy. “A sharp decline in economic activity, including trade, coupled with a lack of clearance revenues since October 2023, has [...]
©- - 23 february 2024 - 09:35:08 - thread Society (440 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Labour and Rehabilitation, Ali Al-Abed Al-Rida, Sunday opened the 4th edition of the International Forum and Exhibition on Education and Training in Libya "LETEXPO" in the Great Hall of the Cité des Sports in Tripoli. The event will run from 3 - 6 [...]
©- - 04 february 2024 - 16:33:27 - thread Society (283 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - At present, only 46.4% of six-year-olds have access to basic education, and half of them complete the first three cycles, according to a joint press release from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued on Wednesday [...]
©- - 24 january 2024 - 17:57:33 - thread Society (752 words)


Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - As the global community celebrates International Day of Education on 24 January, the African Union's Year of Education also begins this month. In this, the second decade of work towards the goals of Agenda 2063, foundational literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional learning skills are a top priority. In [...]
©- - 24 january 2024 - 08:02:35 - thread Society (631 words)


Maseru, Lesotho (PANA) - Liphula (a pseudonym to protect the privacy of the student) is a 21-year-old young man enrolled in Grade 11 at Mohlapiso High School in Qacha’s Nek district of the Kingdom of Lesotho. He attends school with only five other learners in his class because most of his [...]
©- - 23 january 2024 - 09:05:48 - thread Society (1763 words)

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