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Global education crisis and attacks on schools

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The global education crisis has intensified, with reports indicating that 258 million children across 87 countries face severe learning disruptions due to conflict and insecurity. Violence against educational institutions reached unprecedented levels in 2024 and 2025, with recorded incidents rising by 40 to 50 per cent over the 2022–2023 period. UNESCO noted that attacks on schools rose by 33% in 2025, particularly in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Haiti. By late 2026, the scale of the crisis has expanded. The UNESCO World Education Report 2026 reports that 273 million children and adolescents are out of school. In September 2026, a United Nations meeting highlighted that the crisis affects over 500 million children, driven by conflict and climate-induced challenges. Maysa Jalbout, Director of ‘Education Cannot Wait’, described extreme conditions in Sudan, where classrooms reach 44 degrees Celsius without water or electricity. UN Special Envoy Gordon Brown reported that beyond the 273 million children out of school, an additional 270 million children enrolled in school are failing to meet essential literacy and numeracy benchmarks by age eleven. Brown urged governments to honor pledges to allocate 20% of budgets to education. In October 2026, the UNHCR warned issued warnings regarding the impact of severe funding shortages on refugee education. The agency’s ‘Pathways to the Future’ report noted that approximately 5.8 million refugee children—44% of the 13.1 million refugee children of school age—were out of school in 2025. The agency’s ‘Paths to the Future’ report noted a significant drop in enrollment as While 65% of primary-age refugee children age, with are enrolled, only 32% of those of secondary school age are enrolled. Furthermore, two out of three refugee children enrolled in secondary education. lack the necessary learning foundation to enter a classroom effectively. UNHCR High Commissioner Barham Salih warned that funding cuts risk reversing cuts, which saw agency resources drop from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025, threaten to reverse decades of investment progress and closing prospects for young people, noting that the agency has secured only about one-third of the $8.5 billion required for its activities this year. may cause nearly 8.3 million forcibly displaced people to lose life-saving assistance.

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