Education and school safety

Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

Play and learn to stop disasters: Build your risk knowledge and strengthen your disaster preparedness.

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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

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There are many schools in wealthy countries that could collapse someday, just like in China, from known seismic threats...
New York Times, the
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WMO stresses the urgent need for improving coordinated storm-surge advisory systems in the Gulf of Bengal and other parts of the world that at are risk of tropical cyclones...
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Earthquake experts say the collapsed schools may be a sign of poor construction despite adequate building codes....
Christian Science Monitor
A Chengdu city government official said schools were allowed to resume classes after building inspections were carried out....
China Daily
'Every natural disaster is a reminder that knowledge is power. If we know what could happen, then we have no excuse for not doing something about it.'...
Guardian, the (UK)
Speakers at a recent seminar underlined the need for introducing disaster-related curricula in schools which could help minimize disaster losses and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)....
National News Agency of Bangladesh

This is one of a series of assembly kits intended for educational use. It provides pretty much all you need to start planning a school assembly. It is also intended more broadly for any session with children, particularly informal education outside the

This children’s booklet with cartoon-like illustrations describes what happens when an Alaskan earthquake causes a tsunami warning and evacuations to be issued in Alaska and in Hawaii. The International Coordinating Group for the Tsunami Warning System in

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