So often it seems that well-meaning efforts toward improving education not only do not succeed, but, in many cases, actually make things worse. In medicine, “iatrogenic” is the word used when ...

 The group says the right to education is a major component of socio-economic rights. The group, made up of 29 organisations, made the appeal in a submission it presented on Wednesday at the ...

We write in advance of the 98th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (“the Committee”) and its review of Pakistan. This submission focuses on the right to free and compulsory ...

The Government will submit to the Knesset Israel’s first compulsory education legislation within the nest few days, Education Minister Zalman Shazar announced in Parliament today. The plan has already ...

"Abolish Compulsory Religious Education" was one of the main demands in the demonstration of Alevi organizations in Istanbul. A sit-down strike was continued all night long and had previously been ...

The ECHR has decreed that compulsory RE classes are incongruous with the democratic principles of plurality and objectivity and has charged Turkey with paying 2,900 Euros trial costs to the applicants ...

When it comes to school, being present and receiving an education are not always simultaneous. In this Education Week Commentary, Dennis Evans argues that compulsory schooling, forcing students to ...