Weekly Global Education News | December 17, 2017
Update on issues affecting teachers, children, and schools around the world
Thousands of children need assistance three months after Caribbean hurricanes — UNICEF
Three months after two category-5 hurricanes tore through the Caribbean, thousands of children across the region still need support, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday […] Hurricane Maria then wrought additional damage across the region, with UNICEF estimating that together, they left 350,000 children in need of humanitarian assistance.
A new USAID and World Bank partnership to support inclusive education
The 3-year program will collect better data on children with disabilities and education, provide technical assistance for building capacity and support demonstrative pilot projects in select African countries, and disseminate knowledge generated globally.
To start, an analytical report on the main economic, social, and system-level structures that impact inclusion and educational participation for children with disabilities will be commissioned as well as a cost-benefit analysis and cost assessments of inclusive education for children with disabilities in Africa.
After Years of Civil War, Child Marriage Is on the Rise in Yemen
In the midst of this national catastrophe, desperate families are increasingly turning to child marriage: Today, more than two thirds of girls are married off before the age of 18, compared to 50 percent before the crisis began.
Parents marry off their daughters to be relieved of the cost of their care, or because they believe a husband’s family can offer better protection. Families also sell their daughters for dowry payments to cope with conflict-related hardship.
Educating our youth to care about each other and the world
This assessment offers a tangible opportunity to provide the global community with the data it needs to build more peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies through education. It will provide a comprehensive overview of education systems’ efforts to create learning environments that encourage young people to understand one another and the world beyond their immediate environment, and to take action towards building cohesive and sustainable communities. It will help the many teachers who work every day to combat ignorance, prejudice and hatred, which are at the root of disengagement, discrimination and violence.
UK: Workload driving teachers out of profession — union survey
Workload is the biggest barrier to young teachers making the profession their career, UK young teachers have highlighted.
Violence shuts schools, deprives children of medical care in Syria’s East Ghouta, warns UNICEF
“As violence continues to intensify in East Ghouta, thousands of children are suffering in silence,” said Fran Equiza, UNICEF Representative in Syria. “The situation is getting worse day by day. The health system is crumbling and schools have now been closed for almost a month. Sick children desperately need medical evacuation, and many thousands more are being denied the chance of a normal, peaceful childhood.”
Children are the face of conflict-fuelled humanitarian tragedy in South Sudan — UNICEF
Years of insecurity and upheaval have had a ‘staggering impact on children,’ threatening an entire generation, according to the report entitled.
The numbers tell a grim story, said UNICEF, noting that almost three million children are severely food insecure; more than one million acutely malnourished; 2.4 million forced from their homes; two million out of school, and if the current situation persists, only one in 13 children are likely to finish primary school.
