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partner, Ocean Agency, invites parents and children to experience the ocean and its astounding life forms from their homes. Remote diving is the new remote working.

Access to a quality education

As school closures impact more than 80% of the world’s student population, UNESCO convened an online meeting of education ministers, to share information on measures deployed to support teachers, parents and students in coping with home learning. They also pointed to emerging challenges that require global cooperation. UNESCO is launching a to support countries in scaling up their best distance learning practices and reaching children and youth who are most at risk.

Schools Resume as Displaced Return to Gunyoro in Eastern Equatoria

launches an education coalition to help countries deploy remote learning to minimize disruptions and maintain social contact with learners. As an immediate response to massive school closures, UNESCO established a COVID-19 task force to provide advice and technical assistance to governments working to provide education to students out of school. The Organization holds regular virtual meetings with education ministers from all over the world to assess priority needs.

Meet some students from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine who are currently taking part in the scholarship programme administered by .

UNRWA Inaugurates New School in Dera’a Refugee Camp

“These are our children”

Muzoon Almellehan is an education activist and . Muzoon has been campaigning for children’s education in emergencies since she was forced to flee Syria in 2013 with her family. In this article in the UN Chronicle for the International Day of Education, she shares her personal story and her motivation for the work she does. "Education is the key to peace and prosperity, and the foundation of equality," she says.

The International Day of Education, 24 January, this year highlights the integrated nature of education, its humanistic aims, as well as its centrality to our collective development ambitions. The will reaffirm the role of education as a fundamental right and a public good. It will frame ‘inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all’ as a goal in and of itself, as well as a necessary means to accelerate progress to meet the targets of all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Some 700 outstanding young students from 25 countries are meeting in Geneva (8-10 January) to discuss how the power of technology can change the world. Hosted and co-organized by the International Telecommunication Union () and FerMUN, the  focuses on how technologies can be harnessed for progress towards the SDGs. Model United Nations () simulations are a popular way to learn about the UN. More than 400,000 students worldwide participate every year in MUN at all educational levels – from primary school to university.

This tells the stories of some of the world’s 7.1 million refugee children of school age under ’s mandate. 

‘Big Chief’ and the Million Beads

The Juan Luis Vives school is located in the Valparaiso Penitentiary Centre, Chile. Founded in 1999, the institution provides basic and secondary education, and vocational training for detainees. The school was awarded the  in 2015.