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Universal primary education

News, comment and features on universal primary education, which was goal No 2 in the millennium development goals

October 2016

  • A teacher leads a class at a primary school in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura

    UN warns universal education goal will fail without 69 million new teachers

    Unesco figures show that massive global teacher shortage, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, poses major challenge to inclusive education

September 2016

  • Afghan Kuchi girls attend lessons inside a tent in front of the ruins of the Darlaman Palace which was destroyed during the civil war, on the outskirts of Kabul on October 27, 2010. More than 300 Afghan Kuchi tribal nomads settled into the palace several months ago under the protection of Afghan paramilitary police who use the ruins as a makeshift patrol base, after being driven from a nearby area in Kabul during a bout of ethnic riots earlier this summer. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Why are 63 million girls missing out on education? – podcast

  • Palestinian schoolgirls sit in front of a mural on the first day of a new school year, at a United Nations-run school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 28, 2016

    Women's rights and gender equality
    Why are 63 million girls missing out on education? – podcast transcript

  • Gordon Brown

    Britain’s spending on aid isn’t too generous. It’s a drop in the ocean

    Gordon Brown
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    Poorest countries hit hardest as world lags behind on global education goals

August 2016

  • At Banbuengnamsai primary school, which signed up for a pilot programme, a teacher gives an Arabic lesson.

    Guardian development network
    Bridging the language divide in Thailand's strife-torn deep south

  • A teacher with a group of children at the Oscar Romero school for the deaf in Tubmanburg.

    'My job is to make children hopeful': inside Liberia's deaf school

July 2016

  • Young refugees in Minawao camp in northern Cameroon

    We must act fast on the global goals, or risk leaving the poorest behind

    Elizabeth Stuart
  • Students attend a class at Mashal Model School on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan

    Women's rights and gender equality
    UK government pledges £100m to help world's poorest girls make the grade

  • Girls in villages being surveyed by Educate Girls to determine how many aren’t attending school. Educate girls

    Women's rights and gender equality
    A new financial bond is helping us get more girls into schools in India

    Safeena Husain
  • The primary school of Mguwata, Malawi

    It takes a village: the Malawi school Guardian readers helped build

May 2016

  • Syrian children attend a class at a primary school in Aleppo's rebel-held eastern district of Shaar on May 7, 2016

    Small Changes
    Why are so many children around the world out of school? – podcast transcript

  • At the Malakal Protection of Civilians site in South Sudan, children sit in the burnt ruins of their school

    Schools reduced to rubble and ruins by conflict – in pictures

  • Migrant children attend a lesson in a makeshift school at the camp in Calais, on 10 February 2016.

    Small Changes
    Why are so many children around the world out of school? – podcast

  • Children attend an English lesson inside a tent at the makeshift migrants and refugees camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni on May 2, 2016. Some 54,000 people, many of them fleeing the war in Syria, have been stranded on Greek territory since the closure of the migrant route through the Balkans in February. / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZTOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images

    30 million children have lost their homes – they must not lose their education

    Kevin Watkins

  • When will the UK stand up to save education from bullets and bombs?

    Martin Bell

  • How do we make life better for people living as refugees for generations?

    Laurie Lee

April 2016

  • Um Al-Gura girls school in Nahr Atbara

    Women's rights and gender equality
    In Sudan, communities are finally seeing the value of educating girls

    More than 3 million children are out of school in Sudan, the majority of them girls, but enrolment campaigns are changing attitudes

March 2016

  • Sohay, a grassroots NGO funded by Global Fund for Children and Comic Relief, works in Dhaka’s slums, trying to get children out of hazardous workplaces and in to schools

    Bangladeshi organisation delivers a lesson on ending child labour

    A grassroots NGO in Dhaka is rising to the challenge of getting Bangladesh’s 4.7m child workers out of hazardous workplaces and in to schools

January 2016

  • Children dance in a circle during break time at a primary school in Lagos.

    Nigeria ain't broke, it just needs to fix its tax system

    Kenny Oleru
    There’s no point praying for a hike in the global oil price if you’re giving away billions in tax breaks to energy firms
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