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Since 2017, New Jersey artist Bisa Butler has been creating a “quilted fabric album”: large textile portraits drawn from old black-and-white photographs; her most recent series is inspired by images of African Americans taken by the government during the second world war.
The materials she uses – kente cloths and other traditional African fabrics – nod to African American heritage,...
[Radio Dabanga] Port Sudan -Neighbourhood committees in El Gadisiya in Port Sudan organised a vigil on Thursday in protest against the decision of the authorities to change the use of a piece of land where a school would be constructed to commercial use by companies and shops. The decision was taken during the ruling of President Omar Al Bashir, who was deposed in April this year.
[Premium Times] When the federal government in 2011 decided to establish nine new universities, it was with the intention of enhancing access to quality tertiary education and a deliberate effort at equitable educational development of different regions in Nigeria.
[New Zimbabwe] ZIMBABWE’S militant teachers’ group, Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) says its members will from next week start reporting for duty only twice a week as they could no longer afford transport fares to and from work.
Lewis Baxter, 21, on how he makes ends meet with his student loan and part-time tutoring work
Name: Lewis Alexander BaxterAge: 21Income: £3,000 plus student loan of £4,500 a yearOccupation: Full-time law student, part-time tutor and organisation founder
I’ve just started my second year at Durham University, where I’m studying law. I’m not your typical student: I probably only go out once...
Ex-students say they are “staggered” the languages professor has been readmitted to Trinity Hall.
The biggest primary school academy trust is setting up food banks in its schools to feed families.
He wrote about Yeats and Auden, but as a former pilot in World War II, he was best known for exploring the reality of battle.
Registers at a Victorian school recorded ‘inclement weather’ as a reason for missing school. Not surprising when children were without coat or shoes
In the 1860s schoolteachers were obliged to complete a daily log to record any unusual event. Schooling was not free and many poor children only got an education through the altruism of Quakers, Wesleyans and other non-conformists who were...
Birmingham school is focus of long campaign to halt LGBT equality messages being taught
A high court judge has been asked to extend an exclusion zone permanently banning activists against LGBT equality lessons from demonstrating outside a Birmingham primary school.
Protesters went head to head with a local authority during the five-day trial to stop protests outside Anderton Park primary...
[Monitor] Makerere university lecturers have put the government on notice regarding their pay rise as directed by President Museveni last month.
[Daily News] HIGHER Education Students’ Loans Board (HESLB) yesterday announced the first batch of 30,675 fresh university students who will be granted loans amounting to 113.5bn/- for academic year 2019/2020.
[New Frame] Nelson Mandela University students are cutting their teeth creating a multiuse building for residents of the Airport Valley shack settlement.
[News24Wire] The Gauteng education department has instituted an inquiry following claims that black employees at an Ekurhuleni school were forced to eat in a converted toilet.
Children unable to get free nasal spray vaccine after delay in manufacture
Children have been unable to get immunised against flu this winter because GP surgeries and schools have been hit by shortages of the nasal spray version of the vaccine that is meant to protect every two- to 11-year-old.
Supply problems have forced GP practices and primary schools in England to cancel sessions in recent...
‘Pre-loading’ students are causing sleepless nights in the handsome Victorian villas of Redland
Derrick Collier was feeling a little weary. “It’s party central around here. The students are taking over,” he said. “Last night two girls were hammering on the front door of the house opposite me at 3am for half an hour. It’s hard to get back to sleep after something like that.”
Collier won’t...
[Nyasa Times] Malawi Police in Thyolo have arrested four students suspected to be ring leaders in a fracas at Thyolo Secondary School on Wednesday night which led to destruction of school property.
[Namibian] SUIDERLIG High School teacher Valery Bock continues to teach despite a guilty verdict after a disciplinary hearing against her over misconduct charges of inappropriate sexual behaviour with a pupil from P K de Villiers High School.
Residents near campus says university has failed to tackle students’ antisocial behaviour
The University of Bristol is paying for nighttime police patrols in areas around its campus after years of complaints from residents about loud parties and disruption caused by its growing number of students living in rented houses.
While a number of British universities already fund or subsidise police...
[Premium Times] The Nigerian government says it has committed N10 billion to remove 10.2 million out-of-school children from streets in the next five years.
[Daily Trust] Katsina -The Federal University Dutsin-Ma Governing Council has approved the appointment of Dr. Babangida Umar Dangani as acting vice chancellor of the university.