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Two equal bars show girls and boys now enrolled at parity worldwide, while a red gauge shows 18% of women still married before age 18.
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UNESCO's 2026 Gender Report Finds Enrolment Parity, but Child Marriage Still Pushes Girls Out

UNESCO's 2026 GEM Gender Report, launched in Paris on 9 October, finds global parity in school enrolment but shows child marriage and early…

EduFabTech · 3h ago · 3 min read
Banner: 15 days of lycée blockades in France and a first concession on absent teachers, with a timeline from 17 September to 6 October and three figures: 1,027 lycées hit on 1 October, more than 5,000 arrests since Monday, 7.5 per cent of teaching hours unreplaced
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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…

EduFabTech · 5d ago · 4 min read
A donut chart shows 64% of 163 countries (105 of them) saw youth unemployment rise between 2023 and 2025, alongside the global 12.4% jobless rate, 67 million unemployed youth, and a 20% NEET rate.
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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…

EduFabTech · 18 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A reversing trend line shows the global out-of-school population falling by a third to 2015, then rising for a 7th straight year to 273 million in 2024.
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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 …

EduFabTech · 16 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
A descending three-bar chart (2015→2022→2025) beside the headline shows OECD reading and maths scores hitting their lowest recorded levels, with the 28-point reading drop, 22-point maths drop, and "1 in 5 low performers" stats called out.
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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…

EduFabTech · 14 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
More Than 25 Countries Sign UNESCO's AI-in-Education Statement, But Guidance Still Lags Behind Classroom Use
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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…

EduFabTech · 13 Sep 2026 · 4 min read