Weekly Global Education News | July 22, 2017
Update on issues affecting teachers, children, and schools around the world

Saudi Arabia to Offer Physical Education Classes for Girls
“Does Islam allow girls to play tag? What about soccer? Such questions have suddenly become points of public policy in Saudi Arabia as public schools in the ultraconservative kingdom prepare, for the first time in their history, to offer physical education for girls.”
Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Wins Limelight at Competition
“It took an international outcry and intervention from President Trump and other officials to allow […] girls from an Afghan robotics team to receive visas after two rejections, letting them travel to the United States for participation in First Global, an international robotics contest.
For three days in the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, where an African-American woman was once denied the right to sing before an integrated audience in the 1930s, the Afghan girls in head scarves were stars on an international stage, with cameras, lights and whispers trailing them from practice to competition.”
‘The time to act is now;’ end children’s suffering in Iraq and across the Middle East — UNICEF
[…] the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today warned that the lives and futures of some 27 million across the region and parts of Africa are at risk.
“The worst of the violence in Mosul may be over but for too many children in Mosul and in the region, “extreme suffering continues,” said, Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
Iraq: Displaced children share what they miss most | UNICEF
A teen’s shattered dream trying to reach Europe | UNICEF
DigComp: A framework helping young people to use their digital skills to find work
“Data reveal that transversal skills such as digital skills are becoming relevant for young people to be included and find their way in the labour market. In order to help assess the extent to which people have these skills today, since 2013, the European Commission has provided the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp), a common language to describe digital competence, which is used as a reference in several countries and regions in Europe, and which was recently updated in May.”

