In June 2025, the government announced that, from the start of the 2026 school year, every pupil whose household is on Universal Credit will be entitled to free school meals.

Within the conservative sociocultural framework of Qatar, discussion about sexuality education is often viewed as taboo, leading to a significant disconnect between young people’s sexual and reproductive health needs and the scant information they receive.

This scorecard is a high-level strategic tool to track progress at a political level across the SADC region in the implementation of the strategy of SRHR 2019-2030 against core indicators. The overall goal is to reach or exceed the 2030 SDG targets.

Bullying, whether in-person or online, is a barrier to inclusive, high-quality education and to cohesive societies. This OECD working paper documents bullying prevalence and trends across OECD and accession countries between 2015 and 2022, using PISA data.

Internationally, adolescent engagement in risky sexual behaviours (RSB) remains a global health problem. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is an effective strategy for enhancing positive adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes.

Understanding the relationship between early learning and later fertility preferences and knowledge could yield important lessons for public policy in both the education and health sectors.

Across Africa, health taxes – that is, excise duties on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) – represent one of the most underutilised but promising domestic revenue sources available to African governments.

This paper explores the barriers to implementing comprehensive sexuality education in Egypt’s formal education system and highlights how institutional silence, gender norms, and misinformation continue to endanger young people’s health and autonomy.

This study explored teenage mothers' narratives on challenges and resilience in alternative secondary education pathways (ASEP).

Zambia has witnessed a surge in teenage pregnancies at the primary school level since the introduction of the school pregnancy re-entry policy (REP) in 1997, which replaced the expulsion policy, resulting in some stakeholders questioning its worth.