Education

01.06.2004 Book Aid International works in 30 of the world's poorest countries, providing over half a million books and journals each year to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools. Find out more about they do.

01.06.2004 Help your pupils "think globally and act locally". Bags of Choice is a two-year project involving eight schools working in partnership with their local supermarket. Each school has developed and put into practice a waste management policy, with help from GLADE, a waste minimisation specialist and Carymoor Environmental Centre.

28.05.2004 School students would be sent on "school safaris" to local environmental hot-spots if advocacy groups Demos and Green Alliance had their way. In a new report, the two non-profits argue that children in urban areas need more access to green spaces if they are not to lose touch with the natural environment.

10.05.2004 Children and young people need skills and information to protect their sexual and reproductive health and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Peer education can be a powerful tool in achieving this, but is it always the right approach and if so, how can its impact be increased? Effective Peer Education sets out to help project and programme managers to answer these questions for their own particular circumstances.

16.03.2004 The Global Gateway is a new international website for people involved in education across the world to engage in creative partnerships. Intended for young people, teachers, parents, school leaders, governors and local authorities, it is designed to provide quick access to comprehensive information on how to develop an international dimension to education.

04.03.2004 Lobby your local university to take action to protect the environment by cutting greenhouse gas emissions; reducing, reusing and recycling waste; looking after the local environment; and much more. Join the Go Green campaign organised by People & Planet.

17.02.2004 Schools for MAG enables children in safer areas of the world in the UK, US and all over Europe to help other children who live in some of the most dangerous areas of the planet. MAG clears and destroys the landmines and left-over weapons that make areas unsafe after war. Help raise money through your school and family.

16.02.2004 Student Action India – run by young people for young people - promotes development education in the UK and India through cultural exchange.