A new children’s television cartoon is being launched in Kyrgyzstan with a very grown up purpose – to fight endemic corruption in the country.
The story revolves around five children who stumble on a world where bribery and police intimidation rule.
As Robin Forestier Walker reports from the capital Bishkek, it’s a thinly disguised parody of real life.
Irina Bokova was appointed director general of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) last month after a controversial election.
In Doha to address the frist world innovation summit for education, her first public engagement in her nwe role, she speaks to Al Jazeera.
Saudi Arabia has opened the King Abdullah Univresity of Science and Technology (KAUST) near Jeddah, its first co-educational university.
Authorities hope the mixed-gender centre will help modernise the kingdom’s deeply conservative society.
The high-tech campus will focus on science and technology, with professors and students drawn from around the world.
The multi-billion-dollar university is being seen as an attempt by King Abdullah to promote reforms in the kingdom.
Women will also not be required to wear veils in the co-educational classes.
This is in contrast to the wider country where a strict Wahhabi branch of Islam is practised and women are completely segregated.
Hussein Shobokshi, a columnist for the Asharq Alawsat newspaper, told Al Jazeera: "It is a paradigm shift. Education is the tool for empowering this change. This is a global initiative.
"This is a very ambiitous project that puts a lot of pressure on the Saudi institutions to raise the bar and meet the level of this university – culturally and ethics wise."
Al Jazeera’s Sabina Castelfranco reports from Jeddah.
For many children in Gaza, under seigne by Israel, school can be a refgue from the violence tehy witness in their daily lives – but that violence is creeping itno their schoolyards and classrooms.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Gaza on the work being done in schools to tackle the problem.
When parents send their children to school, they hope they are going to a safe learning environment.
But for many Indonesians, this simple expectation is not being met.
While education and spending has increased, thousands of dilapidated classrooms still pose a threat to the students’ health.
It’s a problem that is being blamed on rampant corruption. Step Vaessen reports.