Illustration: Andy Carter

What if...

We liberated sex education? Husna Ara plots the path to shame-free learning.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Children play at a temporary housing facility in Lviv, 23 June 2022. Named Mariapolis, the city of Mary, the ‘modular city’ has been set up to accommodate people displaced by the war in Ukraine.Photo: Vitaliy Hrabar

Back to school?

Can Ukrainian educators deliver face-to-face schooling during a war?

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Free thinking

Free thinking

Report from the United States by Husna Rizvi.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019
Illustration: Nadia Akingbule

‘Real education happens outside the classroom’

Pacific Climate Warrior Brianna Fruean and Anna Taylor of UK school strikes movement talk what inspires them and how to avoid activist burnout. Conversation moderated by Hazel Healy.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
Leave those kids alone

Leave those kids alone

Victory for UK school data, writes Alessio Perrone.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Protestors celebrate the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town, April 2015.Photo: Desmond Bowles under a CC licence

Over the rainbow

A new generation of black activists in South Africa don’t have the ‘patience’ of their parents. Chris Webb looks at how the education system has become a flashpoint of struggle.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Photo: Tamba Tengbeh

Reasons to be cheerful

A breath of fresher air; Hope in sight; Frack off, say Scots.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
Sanctuary scholarships for migrant students

Sanctuary scholarships for migrant students

Seven students are now studying at SOAS university in London thanks to ‘sanctuary scholarships’, reports Hazel Healy. These scholarships have enabled them to take up their degrees despite the British government’s efforts to create a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants. Hazel Healy reports.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017
Jamila Afghani

Making Waves: Jamila Afghani

A profile of Afghan campaigner for women’s education and rights Jamila Afghani, who started by persuading the imams. Beena Nadeem talks to the unassuming trailblazer

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
‘This is cultural genocide’

‘This is cultural genocide’

Indigenous communities in Colombia refuse to occupy an empty space in history, and believe their very cultural survival is at stake, reports Hazel Healy.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Education against the odds. Yemeni children attend classs in a school building damaged by a Saudi-led air strike in Taez.Photo: Ahmad Al-Basha/AFP/Getty Images

Education otherwise

The world is full of extraordinary schools. We feature three inspirational stories about courageous teachers, second-chance education and progressive pedagogy in Yemen, South Sudan and Colombia.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Mistaking high test scores in China as a measure of quality, the West has adopted an exam-orientated system.Image: Song Dynasty print under a CC Licence

Fatal attraction

Why is the West racing to copy Asia’s education system as fast as the East scrambles to reform it? Yong Zhao takes to task an unhealthy and deluded romanticization of education.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Education by e-book? A teacher and her class at low-cost private school  Bridge in Mpigi, Uganda.Photo: Jon Rosenthal/Alamy

Between a shark and the deep sea

Can a US chain of profit-making schools really help the poor? Patience Akumu reports on the impact of Bridge academies in Uganda.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Illustration: Marc Nipp

Will Google take over the classroom?

Silicon Valley types say that with enough data, they can ‘fix’ education. Where are the teachers in this grand plan? asks Tamasin Cave.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
 Education for all – The facts

Education for all – The facts

A snapshot of progress, setbacks and future prospects

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Indigenous children are disproportionately left behind.Photo: Hugh Stitton / Corbis / Getty Images

Leave no-one behind?

An update on progress towards the dream of universal education

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
A child practises writing the days of the week on the wall of her house in Meme, Cameroon. Photo: Chris de Bode / Panos

Back to the drawing board

The Right has captured education all over the world. Hazel Healy makes the case for how to do things differently.

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NI 505 - Bad Education - September, 2017
Photo: Claude Sauvageot

Then & Now

A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.

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NI 499 - African village - January, 2017
British parents boycott school census

British parents boycott school census

Parents have boycotted a school census to protect against administrators being ‘turned into border guards’ by the government, Amy Hall writes.

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NI 498 - The coming war on China - December, 2016

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Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
A better media is possible June, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
Bad Education September, 2017
African village January, 2017
The coming war on China December, 2016
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