Liberia: Liberia Rated Among World’s Worst in Education
[New Dawn] Monrovia — The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has rated Liberia among the worst-performing education systems globally.
THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2026, 12:34
[New Dawn] Monrovia — The international human rights organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has rated Liberia among the worst-performing education systems globally.
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[Liberian Observer] A new report by Human Rights Watch has cast a harsh spotlight on the country’s struggling education system, warning that mandatory registration fees in public schools are systematically excluding children from classrooms and financially suffocating parents who are struggling to keep their kids in school.

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Maths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level, to the extent that I chose to do it at A-level. As early as the first week of the A-level course, however, it became abundantly clear that the subject was quite beyond me. I simply couldn’t make head or tail of what the...
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We deserve an A-minus for effort.
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Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman
Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”.
Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian...
They encountered demonstrations and ultimatums from the Trump administration. At Wednesday’s commencement, it was all about the sweltering weather.
A.I. is replicating the pattern followed by every ed-tech quick fix.

The education secretary defends videos starring The Only Way Is Essex star promoting post-16 education.
[Nile Post] The Executive Director of the National Council for Higher Education, Prof Mary Okwakol, has called for major reforms in nursing and midwifery training, saying Uganda’s health education system must shift from exam-oriented learning to competency-based training that produces work-ready graduates.
Plus, plans for a national voucher program.

Soft power institution faces funding crisis linked to Covid-era government loan due to be repaid by September
Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation.
Out of 130 of its teaching staff across Rome, Milan and Naples, 108 are being targeted as teaching activities in Italy face...

Mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in fall of 2027
Harvard faculty has voted to impose a roughly 20% cap on A grades in an effort to curb decades of grade inflation that, the faculty argues, degrades the value of top-tier academic achievement at the college.
The mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges...
Muslims pointed to a rise in overt hatred online, political attacks and harassment in the months before the killing of three people outside an Islamic center.
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
[HRW] Monrovia — Eliminate Registration Fees; Expand School Grants; Improve Education Quality
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[Nyasa Times] Studying in the United States has been one of the most revealing experiences of my academic life. As a graduate of the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (formerly Malawi Polytechnic), I have had the rare privilege of experiencing two higher education systems that both claim to value excellence–yet produce very different outcomes.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The University of Liberia Faculty Association(ULFA) made a seamless transition when it inducted a new corps of officers to steer the affairs of the Association for the next two years, successfully bringing an end to the leadership of Dr. Edna Johnny, who led ULFA for more than four years, from 2021 to 2026.