Students raise hands in show of support for the education of girls

PUPILS around the country tried to get into the record books yesterday to help those not lucky enough to have any schooling.

The world’s largest simultaneous lesson was organised as part of the Global Campaign for Education to highlight the fact 125 million children around the world have no access to education.

Of those, two-thirds are girls, and the lesson given in more than 100 countries was that girls and women needed an equal chance to learn.