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The global fund for education in emergencies surpasses half-a-billion dollar milestone in resources mobilized to reach children and youth left furthest behind in crises. World leaders today committed to expanding access to inclusive quality education for girls and boys caught up in the world’s worst humanitarian crises with US$205 million in pledges for Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fun

Efforts to provide education for refugees have been transformed by the impact of millions fleeing Syria since 2011, according to Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Speaking ahead of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, the commissioner highlighted the gap between education for refugees and settled citizens. Drawing on figures compiled by the charity Save

Children overwhelmingly identify education as their top priority at times of crisis, a new report by Save the Children shows today. Education Against the Odds provides the largest analysis of what children – rather than aid planners – say they need during humanitarian emergencies. The report’s surprising findings reveal children are more than twice as likely to rank going to school as their top

It's back-to-school time on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, and in the border town of Matamoros, Mexico, migrant children are attending a different kind of classroom. Volunteers have created a pop-up school on a downtown sidewalk in hopes of giving the kids some sense of stability.

Three UN agencies are calling on European States to increase resources and practical support for their school systems to ensure all refugee, asylum-seeking and migrant children can access and stay in quality education. In a briefing paper published today, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and IOM, the International Organization for Migration, detail the obs

Education, especially secondary schooling, provides a route to economic self-sufficiency and a way to regain a sense of purpose and dignity after displacement Nowadays, making an investment — whether in shares, bonds, property, gold, lottery tickets or the latest start-up — is quick and easy, but when it comes to investments in people, the dividends are not always as clear, nor is the means by wh

Schoolchildren have become pawns in the fierce conflict between Cameroon's mainly French-speaking government and separatist fighters demanding independence for the country's English-speaking heartlands. The separatists are enforcing a lockdown across cities, towns and villages in the North-West and South-West regions to ensure schools remain shut for a fourth academic year in a row.

The United Nations is urging the international community to invest in secondary school education for refugee youth to empower them with skills and knowledge — and give them a better shot at ending a vicious cycle of living in limbo and depending on others. “For many refugees, becoming a teenager is also the moment where the educational journey comes to an end.

Children in the world’s most dangerous countries will be given the chance to go to school for the first time thanks to £90m of UK aid funding, the Prime Minister will announce today. The Prime Minister will also call on G7 countries to dedicate more of their aid budget to education, particularly for girls living in conflict areas.

Britain is to give £90m to help children in conflict zones go to school, Boris Johnson has announced. Announcing the aid boost at the G7 summit in France, the prime minister said it would help an estimated 600,000 children, particularly girls, in some of the world’s most dangerous and unstable countries. He called on other rich-world countries to devote a great