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The liberal and socialist education unions of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation have filed a strike notice to coincide with the start of the new school year for French-speaking education in Belgium
Belgium's upper house of parliament, the Senate, has approved a draft resolution asking the federal government to lower the compulsory school age from five years to three.
Differing school calendars for French and Dutch-speaking children in Brussels are already proving a headache for the region's parliament.
Since its humble beginnings with 10 children in 2007, Montgomery International School has developed into a thriving multicultural community with exce
An estimated seven out of 10 children in Belgium avoid using the toilets at their schools because of the unsanitary conditions, a lack of privacy and a fear of embarrassment, a survey has found.
A four-year-old girl spent the day on a school bus in Alveringem, a municipality in West Flanders, after falling asleep on the bus and going unnoticed by the driver.
The education minister for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Caroline Désir, has indicated that she wants Dutch or German language classes to be compulsory for French-speaking students beginning i
Two toddlers in a Brussels nursery school managed to leave the building without an adult and wander through the city unaccompanied for nearly an hour.
As world leaders met to discuss saving the planet from environmental disaster at the Cop26 climate summit in Scotland, it was impossible to ignore the contribution of youth activists to this defin
