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Gordon Brown: Building a fairer, more united UK

Today, the United Kingdom is united in name only. With different regions and industries desperately trying to opt out of a “hard Brexit” from the European Union, and Scotland even conside...

Gordon Brown: Using social enterprise to improve global education

An estimated quarter-million young people in Syria are missing out on college as a result of the civil war there. Now, thanks to the Institute of International Education, charities, phila...

Gordon Brown: This is 2016's invisible group

In his 1952 novel, Invisible Man, the late Ralph Ellison famously portrayed American blacks as silent, long-suffering, and entirely unnoticed by the majority white population. In 2016, th...

Gordon Brown: 8 uncertainties to overcome in the wake of Brexit

Britain has a new prime minister – but the country’s post-European Union future remains uncertain. Indeed, prolonged delays are likely in implementing the voters’ decision to leave the EU.

Gordon Brown: Britain’s future lies in leading Europe, not in leaving it

Can the United Kingdom ever reconcile itself to being part of Europe? If recent British newspaper headlines about the June 23 referendum on continued European Union membership are any gui...

Millions of children have lost their homes – here's how to save their education

“Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.” These words, spoken by Mahatma Gandhi in 1948,...

Gordon Brown: This is how to save Syria’s lost generation

We are at risk of producing a lost generation of young Syrians. Nearly six years of civil war have displaced them from their homes, denied them the chance to plan for their future, and st...

How virtual education is helping refugee children

Educating refugees and children in conflict zones is one of the biggest challenges facing the international community. Their schools have been reduced to rubble. Their teachers have fled ...

Let's be the first generation to put every child in school

Buried in the declaration from the just-completed fourth United Nations’ Syria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but important promise: by next year, every Syrian refug...

How can we give young refugees a future?

The year 2016 has opened with a record number of men and women – 60 million – displaced from their homes in the wake of 35 separate conflicts and emergencies. With 20 million refugees now...

Gordon Brown: It’s time to take infrastructure seriously

What is the cost of educating a refugee child?

How can we make schools safer?

How can we fund education for all?

How can we rescue education after a disaster like Nepal?