I love busting out a French subjunctive in pursuit of better restaurant service, so it’s a joy to discover there’s a neuroscientific upside to being multilingual
It’s hard to pick a favourite PG Wodehouse line, but the one I’m perhaps most fond of is this: “Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the...
Experts say there will still be opportunities ahead in everything from teaching to hotels and the law
Entering the world of work often brings some uncertainty, but now there is another question: how can I AI-proof my career?
We asked people from across various industries what they think the impact of AI will be on careers, and which jobs may be less affected. While it is still early days for...
Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke
The extreme heat that has hit the UK twice in the past few weeks has left teachers struggling to cope as temperatures in some classrooms climb above 40C, with pupils and staff suffering from heatstroke, nausea and headaches.
Teachers say they have been desperately trying to keep...
Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.
The novelist Dinaw Mengestu, who was elected seven months ago, said the article “continues this approach toward defending some rights while not defending others.”
[Nile Post] MUKONO: One teacher was killed and several students injured on Friday morning after a passenger train collided with a bus carrying Mwebaza High School students on a study trip to Jinja at the Namumira railway crossing in Mukono Municipality.
One hundred years after his birth, the French philosopher remains hugely influential, both revered and reviled for ideas that eerily anticipated our day.
Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries, with 18 spending five times more on loans
Most developing countries spent less on education than they did repaying debt last year, according to the UN, at the same time as global aid to education is predicted to decline by up to 30%.
More was spent on servicing foreign debt than on education in 113 developing countries in...
[Vanguard] ABUJA — President Bola Tinubu has transmitted the National Secondary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2026 to the Senate, seeking legislative approval for reforms aimed at strengthening the administration and governance of public senior secondary education in Nigeria.
[Leadership] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Taraba State University (TSU) chapter, has urged the Taraba State Government to expedite the implementation of outstanding agreements reached with the union to avert another round of industrial action.
[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu has transmitted the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2026 to the Senate, seeking legislative approval to strengthen the administration and governance of public senior secondary education across Nigeria.
[Nyasa Times] Minister of Higher Education Bright Msaka has assured Parliament that no student will be forced to abandon their university education because of the recent tuition fee increases at public universities, seeking to calm a row that has spread rapidly across political parties, student bodies and civil society since the hikes were announced.
[Daily News] Dodoma — THE government has launched a massive infrastructure project to build 1,090 advanced-level secondary classrooms, dormitories and sanitation facilities across mainland Tanzania.
Exclusive: Plan to improve skills of thousands of financial sector workers to keep pace with tech revolution
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City “skills compact” that will commit firms such as Barclays and Lloyds to retraining thousands of financial sector workers for the AI revolution.
The financial services skills compact will be launched on Tuesday, during what is likely to be...
Julie Menin, the speaker, said she had been given excuses for why contracts had not been provided. The mayor’s office called her request “extremely laborious.”
[Namibian] About 25 Namibian students admitted to Parul University in India for the 2026 academic year received a pre-departure orientation on Saturday to prepare them for their studies abroad.
[Premium Times] The report titled “Financing Early Childhood Development in Crisis (ECDiC) in Nigeria: From Fiscal Invisibility to Child-Level Results” reviewed how Nigeria financed childhood development in crisis between 2020 and 2025.
[Premium Times] The proposed reform is coming amid growing public debate over the federal government’s reported plan to abolish the separation between Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS).
[Foroyaa] Public school teachers have accused the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) of abandoning a colleague who survived an attempted murder attack by a student, saying he was left to face the court process without support from the ministry.
