Both compulsory and non-compulsory schools in Switzerland should not be immediately closed because of the continued COVID pandemic, say the Government’s scientific advisors and education experts.Read more
The lives of millions of parents and children were turned upside down when COVID-19 forced school lockdowns in April 2020. With a new national lockdown having begun in England on January 4 2021, many parents...Read more
A truly collaborative process is the only way to describe the Nueva Escuela project in Ecuador, which has seen school pupils and their community play a central role in the design of a sustainable school....Read more
Chicago Connected — the city’s ambitious initiative to help low-income students get online — has provided tens of thousands of families with free internet since it launched last summer and has become a national model...Read more
A fair start for every child in Europe – that’s the aim of a new health & education partnership committed to prioritising early years development within public policy-making processes.Read more
In mid-March, some 200,000 Philadelphia students were sent home from their public schools due to the coronavirus, with hopes they would return two weeks later. That didn’t happen, and the buildings have been shuttered ever...Read more
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern in the UK. Surveys conducted in 2017 and 2018 showed that 28 per cent of children aged from two to 15 in England were overweight or obese.Read more
Schools play a critical role for children – not only in providing education, social and emotional development, but also in offering critical support – especially for the most vulnerable of students.Read more
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About one in 10 New York City public school students is experiencing homelessness, a rate that has remained stubbornly similar for several years. Read more
The Polish city of Racibórz has become the latest in the country to acquire a mobile school, an innovative learning tool which is bringing education right into the heart of urban communities.Read more
International children’s charity UNICEF is demanding urgent global investment to bridge a digital divide stopping children and young people from accessing essential digital learning and opportunities online.
A report by UNICEF reveals that two thirds of...Read more
Spending most of 2020 attending school virtually, students at a small charter school in Aurora, Colorado, are enjoying a new kind of class where everyone chooses what to learn.Read more
After closing down in the spring, Namaste Charter School in Chicago’s McKinley Park neighbourhood decided to open its usual summer academy to support South Side families with working parents.Read more
Vietnam: Ho Chi Min City embraces child-friendly principles
The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City and the UNICEF in Vietnam have teamed up for a campaign aimed at expanding awareness of environmental...Read more
Schoolchildren in low-and lower-middle-income countries have already lost nearly four months of education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to six weeks of loss in high-income countries, according to a new report. Read more
The UK’s Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families has launched a survey designed to bring together valuable insights from nursery staff on the mental health and wellbeing needs of under-fives.Read more
