A government school in an interior village of Rajasthan is giving private schools in the area a run for their money. While the number of private schools in villages across the country have been going up

In Savar, an industrial suburb of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, at least 300 workers, mostly women, died at the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapse on April 24.   In addition to the appalling number of deaths, more than 1,200 were injured there in the worst industrial disaster ever to befall this country.

Islamabad 

Encouraged by the huge response to two-day Islamabad Literary Festival that ended here on Wednesday, Amena Sayyid has announced holding of the first Children’s Literary Festival at Pak-China Friendship Centre from May 24- 25.

This week, an unprecedented gathering of world leaders in Washington DC is seeking to urgently accelerate progress on achieving education for all. 61 million children of primary school age

Gordon Brown is the United Nations’ special envoy for global education. He was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010, after 10 years as chancellor of the exchequer.

The next two weeks will see a wealth of activities geared toward ramping up the global education agenda. From community initiatives to ministerial meetings, children, parents, advocates, experts, and political leaders are turning their attention to basic education.

This is an important week for global education. The World Bank, the United Nations Secretary General and his Special Envoy on Global Education, Gordon Brown are convening a meeting with finance and education ministers from 8 countries

Children stand around the ruins of an old school building in Pakistan''s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 10 2013 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Muhammad Akram was forced to quit school when he was in the second grade, when the Taliban destroyed the small, government-run school that he and his brother had been attending.

In preparation for discussions on post-2015 global development goals, the United Nations launched the global survey MY World in December to determine the top priorities of people around the world. People from 183 different countries have taken part in the survey.