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UNESCO Climate-Education Alliance Reaches 100 Countries Ahead of COP31
UNESCO says its Greening Education Partnership reached 100 member countries on October 2, 2026, as it unveiled a new OECD-backed monitoring…
In 15 Days, France's Lycée Blockades Won a First Concession: Faster Replacement of Absent Teachers
Two weeks after one lycée in Créteil blocked its gates, France's education minister met student unions and promised faster replacement of a…
THE's 2027 Rankings: Tsinghua Passes All of Continental Europe, US and UK Shares Hit Lows
Times Higher Education's 2027 rankings, released 30 September 2026, show Tsinghua University overtaking every continental European universi…
OECD Finds Vocational Training Data Too Patchy to Track Who Is Being Trained for Green Jobs
An OECD policy brief published in September 2026 finds technical and vocational education data too fragmented to show whether training keep…
OECD's 2026 Education at a Glance Finds a 13-Point Gender Gap in Degrees That Runs Both Ways
OECD's Education at a Glance 2026 finds women aged 25-34 hold tertiary degrees at a 13-percentage-point higher rate than men across member …
New OECD-EU Database Compares Researcher Mobility and Pay Across 53 Countries, Finds Wide Divergence
A new OECD-EU database covering 53 countries tracks doctoral mobility, gender gaps and pay among researchers, finding that similar training…
V-Dem's 2026 Academic Freedom Index Finds Declines in 50 of 179 Countries
A decade of V-Dem data finds academic freedom declined in 50 of 179 countries and territories since 2015. Institutional autonomy fell faste…
Global Education Fund Raises $3.5 Billion at UN Event, Short of Its $15 Billion Target
Global leaders pledged $3.5 billion toward the Global Partnership for Education's $15 billion 2026–2030 target at a UN event on 23 Septembe…
A Year After the Santiago Consensus, Teacher Shortages Are Still Widening, OECD and UNESCO Data Show
OECD and UNESCO data show teacher attrition, unfilled posts and underqualified staffing rising across very different school systems a year …
A New UN Indicator Finds Climate Content Is Still Thin in Most National School Curricula
A new UN-recognised indicator scans the actual text of national curriculum frameworks rather than relying on self-reporting. It finds most …
ILO's 2026 Youth Employment Report Finds Unemployment Rising in Most of the World's Subregions
The ILO's Global Employment Trends for Youth 2026 report found the global youth unemployment rate rising to 12.4% in 2025, with joblessness…
Two 2026 Surveys Show AI Use in Higher Education Nearly Doubling, With Guidance Lagging Behind
Two 2026 datasets — an OECD teacher survey and a 35-country higher-education poll — show AI use surging past the training, assessment redes…
UNESCO's 2026 Monitoring Report Finds Out-of-School Numbers Rising for a Seventh Straight Year
UNESCO's 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report — the first in a new Countdown to 2030 series — finds 273 million children and youth were …
A Count of 248 Research-Assessment Reform Plans Finds Values Stated, Operational Change Lagging
A content analysis of 248 action plans filed with Europe's Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment finds open-science language widespre…
PISA 2025: Reading and Maths Scores Fall to Record Lows Across the OECD
The OECD's PISA 2025 assessment of 760,000 15-year-olds in 91 countries found reading and mathematics scores at record lows, with one in fi…
More Than 25 Countries Sign UNESCO's AI-in-Education Statement, But Guidance Still Lags Behind Classroom Use
At UNESCO's Digital Learning Week 2026 in Paris, more than 25 education ministers signed a non-binding statement on AI in schools. UNESCO's…