Saturday 8 September marks the worldwide celebration of International Literacy Day. In a ceremony hosted by UNESCO, this year’s theme will focus on the...
Breaking the cycle of crisis
Almost half of the 61 million of the world’s out of school children live in fragile states with weak institutional capacity, poor governance, political...
Reaching the Hardest To Reach: Giving Aid to Afghanistan
A new report from the UK's aid watchdog highlights some important issues about the difficulty of delivering aid to conflict affected and fragile states. DFID...
Global Monitoring report: Education can’t Wait
The Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Education for All launched today. This report gives an up-to-date review of the state of education worldwide. This...
Liberia: build roads, but build education too
After the war, people demanded that education, health and roads be placed at the top of the government’s agenda. This was the background to ‘lift Liberia’...
Fair’s fair, wherever you’re born
It shouldn’t matter whether you’re born in a country that features large in the UK Government’s national security radar, or you’re born in a country...
Sierra Leone: ‘Sen u pikindem na skul. Dis fo change!’
I asked a colleague in Freetown to translate ‘Send your children to school, this is for change’ and the result, in Krio, is the title of this blog. I spent...
Rewrite the Future awarded for innovation – but more still needs to be done
This week we celebrated the news that Save the Children is a 2010 laureate for the WISE Education awards, for its Rewrite the Future campaign. Rewrite the...