Editor’s Note: The Trump administration’s October 2025 Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education sparked an overdue conversation about the relationship between universities and the federal ...

More women are attending university than ever before and a quarter of the world’s top universities have appointed a female president, but research shows that female academics are being pushed out of ...

With the support from the financial incentive scheme facilitated by the AGILE project, Fatima re-enrolled in school after dropping out for months. International Day of the Girl Child, October 11, is ...

Despite consistent national efforts to close the gender gap in the Indonesian education system, pervasive patriarchal views — especially in more conservative regions — continue to contribute to girls’ ...

The gender gap in education doesn’t always disadvantage women. In countries like Estonia, Iceland, or Sweden, women outperform men in key indicators such as tertiary education and lifelong learning.

Although access to higher education has improved, Sub-Saharan Africa still has the lowest enrolment rate globally, with only 9-10 per cent compared to the global average of over 40 per cent. Although ...

In the last 50 years, women have been seeking gender equality. We have been moving into the public sphere reserved for men since the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, continually pushing for ...

The initiative is being technically supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the ProGRESS Project, ...

In December, a group of organisations and research bodies organised an online session to continue monitoring gender-equality ...

Although access to higher education has improved, Sub-Saharan Africa still has the lowest enrollment rate globally, with only 9-10% compared to the global average of over 40%. Even though we've come a ...