Farmers are turning away from educating their children beyond compulsory schooling, a gap that could lead to a human capital ...

In some of China's poorest regions, millions of adults have fled their villages in search of work, leaving behind young ...

Despite country-wide statistics, many children in China face critical threats to childhood – especially those “left behind” in remote, rural areas, including ethnic minorities, as well as those forced ...

The lives of 51 million children in eastern and southern Africa are at risk, with their futures often hanging by a thread, ...

A sociologist has suggested that people in China’s rural areas are losing ... Huang said some farmers were choosing not to send their children on to higher education. According to Huang, this ...