White House to Release $1.3 Billion in Frozen Funds for After-School Programs
The money will allow federally funded after-school programs to open this school year, preserving a lifeline for working parents. But other federal dollars remain on hold.
SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2025, 01:00
The money will allow federally funded after-school programs to open this school year, preserving a lifeline for working parents. But other federal dollars remain on hold.
My wife, Kathleen Rigby, who has died aged 81, put her love of justice, writing, history and the arts to public good throughout her life. She did her best to improve things while having fun, and usually found like-minded collaborators.
Her first jobs were in counter-intelligence as an officer with MI5 and MI6. She subsequently worked widely in the education sector and finally as a volunteer...
Indigenous leaders warn higher education institutions will close if the funding-slashing 2026 budget proposal passes
While colleges and universities slow down during summer break, Ahniwake Rose is busy wondering what the fall semester will hold for the nation’s 37 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) – and if they will be able to stay open much longer.
As the president and CEO of the...
The head of the Bureau of Consular Affairs said his office regularly weighed criticism of Israel when determining whether to deny or revoke student visas.
Health service, welfare and special educational needs provision are all priorities but party is in race against time
Angela Rayner has called on Labour colleagues to “step up and make that case” for the government’s achievements, saying it was important to stress policies were not about short-term fixes but “fundamental reforms”. Here are four areas where Labour is seeking to improve...
[Daily Trust] The Kano State Police Command has arrested 11 suspects in connection with the killing of two students during a violent attack at Government Secondary School Bichi, in Bichi Local Government Area of the state.
[Daily Trust] A former chairman of the Secondary Education Board (SEB) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr Musa Yahaya Muhammad, has recalled how the late former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration positively impacted the education sector in the territory.
[Ethiopian Herald] – Government schools have been providing meals to around 801,000 students twice daily during the current fiscal year, the Addis Ababa City Administration Education Bureau announced.
[Vanguard] Abuja — The Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has announced a strategic shift from enforcement to education as the central pillar of its drive to boost tax compliance across Nigeria.
Recent comments by the Israeli prime minister and a Fox News commentator about Cheltenham High School, their alma mater in suburban Philadelphia, have inflamed a debate.
[Afrobarometer] Findings highlight the potential of education to foster stronger, more accountable political institutions.
[Vanguard] Abuja -PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, paid an emotional tribute to his predecessor, the late Muhammadu Buhari, hailing Buhari’s devotion to Nigeria as “patriotism lived more in actions than in words.”
[Leadership] President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday announced the renaming of the University of Maiduguri as Muhammadu Buhari University in honour of the late former Nigerian president who died on July 13 in a UK hospital and was buried in Daura, Katsina State, on July 15..
Twenty-one passengers were taken to hospital after coach overturned on way back from trip to zoo
Floral tributes have been left outside a school attended by a child who died in a coach crash in Somerset on the way home from a trip to the zoo.
Twenty-one passengers were taken to hospital, some with serious injuries, when the coach flipped on to its roof and plunged down an embankment in Exmoor...
[Government of Mauritius] An official ceremony was organised by the Pandit Sahadeo Dazzi Rama Government School yesterday in Holyrood, Vacoas, to present awards to students who have excelled in the Primary School Achievement Certificate (PSAC) 2024 examinations.
We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression.
President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.
A Times reporter reflects on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.
[New Zimbabwe] THE University of Zimbabwe has lifted its suspension on six student activists who were dismissed for staging a protest on campus in May in solidarity with their striking lecturers.
[SNA] Port Sudan, July 17, 2025 (SUNA) – Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Dr. Nawara Abu Mohamed Mohamed Tahir has commended the efforts undertaken by the Beja People’s Graduates Conference, particularly its efforts to promote community peace, mend the social fabric, disseminate a culture of peace and love, actively participate in uniting the national ranks, and seriously...
[IPS] New York — Today, 3.4 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than on health or education. This marks a trembling indication that the United Nations’ promise for the 2030 Agenda could be slipping away.