Parents on up to £80,000 eligible for child benefit
The benefit will not be taken away entirely until an individual earns £80,000, under changes in the Budget.
FRIDAY, 29 MARCH 2024, 11:12
The benefit will not be taken away entirely until an individual earns £80,000, under changes in the Budget.
The school says the child carried a blade over bullying fears and showed it to pupils.
[Vanguard] Nigerians studying overseas, under the Bilateral Educational Agreement (BEA) Scholarship, have made an urgent plea to President Bola Tinubu over the prolonged non-payment of stipends, which has left them in dire straits.
[Daily Maverick] Finance MEC Jacob Mamabolo tabled the final Gauteng budget of the sixth administration on Tuesday. Opposition parties criticised it as electioneering.
[Government of Mauritius] Four hundred and fifty Trainee Primary Educators will undergo an intensive two-year training course at the Mauritius Institute of Education and will eventually be placed in their respective schools. In this context, an induction ceremony was held, today, at the Paul Octave Wiéhé Auditorium in Réduit, with the aim to apprise them of their duties and the requisite...
Staff from Astrea Academy Woodfields in Doncaster check for post on doorsteps and bin movements.
[Daily Trust] The Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS) on Monday sealed up business enterprises including schools, hotels and hospitals over tax evasion and non-filing of annual tax returns.
[Ayin English] After losing all hope for her five children to resume their educational journey, Hafsa Hassan, who was displaced from the city of Omdurman, has decided to seek refuge in a neighbouring country with her children so they could continue their studies.
On Tuesday, the historic 13-2 vote by the men’s basketball team to unionize took a significant step toward classifying student-athletes as employees.
Harvard said it has been acting in good faith and submitted nearly 1,500 pages of new material.
The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Education Department, which found that the school had punished sexual assault victims but not their assailants and created a “culture of silence.”
The school joins Yale, Dartmouth and M.I.T. in backtracking on “test optional” policies adopted during the pandemic.
Michelle Donelan had accused two members of Research England’s advisory group of ‘sharing extremist views’ in letter to UKRI
Michelle Donelan, the science minister, has apologised and paid damages after accusing two academics of “sharing extremist views” and one of them of supporting Hamas.
In a statement posted on X, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology said she had...
Campaign to add financial topics to national curriculum in 2014 ‘counterproductive’ says founder of Money Saving Expert
Martin Lewis, the financial advice expert, accused the government of undermining his efforts to ensure children in England are taught about mortgages and credit cards, saying schools are suffering from a “poverty” of financial education.
Addressing the education select...
[UCT] The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) invite students and staff to attend an open lecture with Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee.
[The Conversation Africa] School mathematics teaching is stuck in the past. An adult revisiting the school that they attended as a child would see only superficial changes from what they experienced themselves.
Some schools report that the annual call for children to wear book-themed costumes has been dropped to avoid further stretching family budgets
Some schools have scrapped costumes for World Book Day on Thursday, citing the cost of living crisis.
While in the past many schools asked children to dress up as their favourite book character for the event, in recent years some schools have adopted...
Kirsti Hadley’s son, 12, had been looking forward to a new school but became burnt out and anxious
Autistic pupils in England denied right to education as absenteeism surges, says charity
Kirsti Hadley is still reeling from how quickly her autistic son’s education has crumbled and how she cannot access help to get him back on track.
Since November 2022, 12-year-old Sonny has only managed to...
Research shows 166% rise of pupils missing one-tenth or more of school term
‘He hates failing’: mother describes lack of help for autistic son
Autistic pupils are being denied their basic right to education, a leading charity has warned, as figures reveal the number persistently off school has increased by 166% in four years.
The research shows that more than a quarter of autistic children in...
[The Herald] Timothy Chirozvani has revealed bold plans to establish a football academy in Harare.
Educators shared their concerns with the Guardian about a deepening culture-war agenda fought over race and gender
An alliance of Indiana teacher unions has called for the removal of a website encouraging parents to report teaching material they perceive as indoctrination, saying it is dividing parents and teachers.
The state attorney general Todd Rokita launched the Eyes on Education portal...