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              Early childhood development

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Indonesia places a $28bn bet on free school meals

                President Prabowo Subianto wants to cater for 82mn students and pregnant mothers to boost growth and attainment

                A classroom is filled with children, some wearing yellow hijabs, as they eat from metal trays.
              • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
                Food security
                Conflict and climate shocks fuel food poverty crises

                More than 25% of children under 5 years are suffering severe hunger, says Unicef report

                Palestinian children queue for food in Gaza
              • Friday, 12 April, 2024
                FT Wealth
                Investing through the eyes of a child

                Concept of child-lens investing is in its infancy but advocates say it will help nurture the next generation

                Gumeshwari and Kiran study at home after school in Tirathgarh Village, Bastar, Chattisgarh, India. Two children in school uniforms are sitting and laughing on a colorful mat outside a rural house with mud walls, while a woman holding a child looks on with a smile from the shadowed doorway
              • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
                Sarah Brown
                Educating Ukraine’s children is critical to its future

                We must act now to equip the next generation of builders, engineers and architects with skills to restore a ravaged country

                Ukrainian children hold paper angels
              • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
                John Thornhill
                Babies vs AI — it’s no contest

                Using infants to develop artificial intelligence technology underscores just how phenomenal their brains are

                A smiling 18-month-old baby girl wearing a head-mounted camera
              • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
                UK Inequality
                Benefit limit one of ‘biggest drivers’ of child poverty in England, say charities

                Data shows that limiting payments to 2 children hits those in Midlands and North West hardest

                Rosie Gilchrist and her son Tyler
              • Friday, 24 March, 2023
                Catherine, Princess of Wales
                Investing in early childhood is a down payment on all our futures

                Businesses should play a central role in changing attitudes

              • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
                FT Magazine
                Why do kids love dinosaurs?

                On a quest to explain his three-year-old’s obsession, Tom Whyman consults a palaeontologist, two psychologists — and his son

              • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
                Martín Llaryora
                By teaching our children why water beats soda, we all benefit

                A programme to improve nutrition in schools in Córdoba, Argentina, aims to boost health and the local economy

                Schoolchildren drinking water
              • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
                Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
                Nestlé pays to eliminate child labour from chocolate supply chain

                The Swiss multinational wants to raise long-term incomes for west Africa’s cocoa farmers

                An Ivorian police officer detains a child during a crackdown on child labour in cocoa plantations
              • Wednesday, 13 October, 2021
                Childcare
                UK childcare investment would boost women’s incomes by £10bn

                Workforce participation held back by lack of affordable and flexible services, study finds

              • Friday, 10 September, 2021
                Special ReportModern Uzbekistan
                Uzbekistan’s population boom poses problems for state

                A combination of high birth rates and soaring unemployment points to problems ahead

                Young Uzbek women at the Kalan mosque in Bukhara
              • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
                Special Report
                Delivering for the World’s Children

                In this year of summits, the United Kingdom Committee for Unicef (Unicef UK) has invited experts to set out policies that governments and companies should pursue to help the next generation overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and economic inequity

              • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
                Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
                Why we must tackle the scourge of child labour

                To achieve a fairer system, nations must focus on the core issues of worker rights

                Ten-year old Mustakin working in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for one dollar a day
              • Sunday, 26 July, 2020
                UK politics
                Online junk food ads face total UK ban in drive to tackle obesity

                Calorie labels on menus and TV watershed controls considered as Johnson steps up crackdown

              • Thursday, 21 May, 2020
                Education
                Half a billion children miss out on education due to lockdowns, says UN

                Lack of internet has cut off access to learning during pandemic, finds report

                Palestinian schoolgirls queue up to receive their end of year certificates at a school in Gaza City on Wednesday
              • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
                News in-depthCoronavirus
                Online classes exacerbate China’s rural-urban education gap

                School closures hit poor children hardest — and threaten Beijing’s anti-poverty goals

                The coronavirus outbreak has put rural Chinese schoolchildren at an even greater disadvantage to their urban peers
              • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
                News in-depthSpecial Report6 min
                Mapping a way out of childhood obesity

                Why what you eat is where you live... and how much you earn

              • Monday, 16 December, 2019
                beyondbricsEducation
                Ignoring the education of refugee children will create a lost generation

                More than half of displaced minors currently lack access to schools

                Rohingya refugees play football in in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
              • Monday, 10 September, 2018
                News in-depthChinese politics & policy
                China factories use childcare offer to lure migrant workers

                Critics say higher wages and better housing needed to help ‘left-behind’ children

                Temporary crèche at the Golden Cup Printing factory in Dongguan
              • Monday, 30 April, 2018
                World
                Brazil stresses child development to combat social inequality

                Message about early learning is reaching parents in poor districts — with good results

                20170920_CF_Visitação do programa Criança Feliz na cidade de Pacatuba em Sergipe. Foto:Mauro Vieira/MDS.
              • Monday, 5 February, 2018
                Special Report50 Ideas to Change the World
                Personalised learning starts to change teaching methods

                Silicon Valley loves the idea but evidence is mixed on whether all children benefit

              • Monday, 5 February, 2018
                Special Report50 Ideas to Change the World
                Why sleeping more will help the national economy

                A new understanding of circadian rythyms is helping combat the silent sleep-loss epidemic

                LOS ANGELES ,CA AUGUST 18, 2015: Students line-up for their buses at a district bus stop next to Jefferson High School in Los Angeles on the first day of classes August 18, 2015. The buses transport the students to middle schools and other high schools in the area (Photo by Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
              • Friday, 26 January, 2018
                The Maya maths revolution

                Children in Mexico are learning maths using a 2000-year-old method invented by their ancient ancestors

                Lizeth Haup Pool shares her knowledge of Mayan mathematics with her little brother Gehu Hapu Pool at their home in indigenous Celtun community in Chichimila, Yucatan, Mexico on December 18, 2017. She learns Mayan mathematics at the Ignacio Ramirez Calzada school. Photo by Bénédicte Desrus
              • Wednesday, 24 January, 2018
                Anne-Marie Slaughter
                Fostering future talent needs to start early

                We must seek out the creative, unpredictable skills that cannot be automated

                D4GR8P Happy kindergarten children playing games
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