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Five things you need to know this week about global education (December 18, 2020) Format A child runs in a field in a village in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria © UNICEF / Nesbitt Our news roundup features the reported rescue of over 300 kidnapped schoolboys in Nigeria and $1.5 billion in funding to improve education in low-income countries. Abducted students back home after rescue Dozens of kidnapped schoolboys are reported to have arrived back home today after security forces rescued them in northwest Nigeria. They had been among about 350 students abducted in a raid that had echoes of th...

  Plan International, a non-governmental organisation focused on girls’ rights, says the Nigerian government has not learnt from past experiences. Making references to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014, and a similar incident in Dapchi Secondary School in 2018, the organisation said government should have put in place adequate security to prevent the attack that occurred in Katsina over the weekend.   Gunmen had, on Friday, attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina, with over 300 students still missing as of Sunday afternoon.   Hussaini Abdu, ...

Advertisement Making references to the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014, and a similar incident in Dapchi Secondary School in 2018, the organisation said government should have put in place adequate security to prevent the attack that occurred in Katsina over the weekend. Gunmen had, on Friday, attacked Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina, with over 300 students still missing as of Sunday afternoon. Hussaini Abdu, Plan International’s country director in Nigeria, said the government should have learnt from previous incidents and put in place security m...