Student Loan Office Leaves the Education Department
The office will move to the Treasury Department as the Trump administration slowly dismantles the agency overseeing federal education policy.
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2026, 23:30
The office will move to the Treasury Department as the Trump administration slowly dismantles the agency overseeing federal education policy.
Dylan Lopez Contreras, the first known New York City public school student to be taken by federal agents last year, said he would “continue fighting” for migrants who remained in detention.
[Nile Post] Parents and local leaders in Tororo Municipality are demanding answers after the relocation of Morukatipe View Primary School to make way for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) left the new site with fewer facilities than the original school.
[Nile Post] Bigodi Secondary School in Bigodi Town Council, Kamwenge District, is grappling with a growing classroom shortage as student numbers rise without a corresponding expansion in facilities.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sent a questionnaire to workers asking for detailed information about potential civil rights violations at the Ivy League school.
[Namibian] The Zambezi regional education directorate is considering the relocation of about nine flood-affected schools in the eastern part of the Zambezi region.
[Namibian] Pupils at Rundu Secondary School in the Kavango East region are blaming the hostel’s alleged dirty kitchen and unhygienic conditions after 15 of them were treatment for suspected food poisoning yesterday.
[Nile Post] The Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago, has warned that ongoing land wrangles affecting schools under the city authority pose a serious threat to education, urging urgent protection of school land as he prepares to leave office.
[Nile Post] Universities across Uganda have been put on notice to urgently align their academic programmes with the new competency-based education framework or risk having those programmes discontinued.
[Namibian] A private School in the Mukwe constituency of the Kavango East region is reportedly offering Grade 10 classes despite a directive from the region’s education directorate to stop the practice.
[Leadership] The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into workplaces and studies around the world is raising fresh concerns among education experts, who warn that students may gradually lose vital cognitive abilities if they become overly dependent on technology.

The head teacher of a Sudbury school says Becky Munnings “touched the lives of all she taught”.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Wellington College Education will establish a new teaching facility in Tatu City, marking its second expansion in Africa after Lagos.

Rulings in cases alleging antisemitism on US campuses say common pro-Palestinian speech is constitutionally protected
Few debates from the last few years have been more contentious than whether criticism of Israel and Zionism is antisemitic, threatens Jewish people or violates their civil rights. Allegations of antisemitism have cost people jobs, provided pretexts for censorship and fueled an...
New York parents can’t always afford to live in neighborhoods with good public schools, and other options are more expensive than ever.
[GroundUp] Elunyaweni Primary in Ugie in the Eastern Cape has five full pit latrines for 160 learners; nearby ET Thabane Primary has broken classrooms
[Afrobarometer] Most citizens say police and courts need to do more to protect women and girls against discrimination and harassment.
The teacher, Joseph Taylor McKeel, was arrested Wednesday morning as he was on his way to work.
A closed-door White House event included news about the National Garden of American Heroes and an emphasis on the role of religion in the founding.
Schools have moved quickly to distance themselves from the labor leader after abuse allegations emerged. Still, many have careful procedures for weighing renamings and other changes.
Bright Horizons, the child care giant, will also surrender permits for a Manhattan branch where workers were charged with abusing toddlers.