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[VOA] Washington — Education and immigration advocates say African students face high denial rates when seeking visas to study in the United States, and they are pushing for changes.
[GroundUp] Zwelinzima Primary has 200 learners and 13 staff but no toilets
Brandon Blackwell, a 30-year-old from Queens, helped turn London’s Imperial College into a “University Challenge” powerhouse.
Protecting children from pornography is one aim of the online harms bill. But other problems have not been tackled
Among teachers and headteachers, concerns about the influence of misogynistic online content, including violent pornography, are widespread. So last week’s call by Daniel Kebede, the head of the National Education Union, for an inquiry into misogyny in schools is important –...
University students in Bristol say volunteering to look after dogs has boosted their mental health.
A tech sector dedicated to boiling things down has raised temperatures in some quarters of the publishing world
Hungry for niche knowledge to impress your colleagues? Troubled by the size of a hefty new book? Doubt your abilities to understand complex arguments? Well, today an increasingly competitive industry offers to take away these problems with one product: a book summary app.
Since these...
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations surrounded an appearance at a new research center named after the former secretary of state and presidential nominee at her alma mater.
Women with symptoms are being penalised, National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference told
The UK’s biggest teaching union is to lobby for menopause training to be made mandatory for all school leaders, saying women with symptoms are being penalised for sickness absence and disciplined on competency grounds.
Older staff were at greatest risk of “capability procedures”, delegates at...
National Education Union chief Daniel Kebede says Labour pledges are ‘a long way from the scale of change’ needed
A new Labour government could find itself facing a wave of industrial action by teachers in England and Wales if it fails to meet demands over pay and education funding, the leader of the UK’s biggest education union has warned.
Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National...
Students from Colby College helped harvest ice from a pond for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at a synagogue in Waterville.
Universities and employers are working together to help low-income families start a career by 2030.
Union poll on school buildings also highlights sewage and wastewater leaks, overheating, severe cold, pests and mould
A survey by the UK’s biggest education union on the state of school buildings in England and Wales has found two in five teachers reporting signs of vermin or pests and more than a quarter complaining of sewage or wastewater leaks.
Of the 8,000 members of the National Education...
The Tennessee A&I basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but were never invited to the White House. That changed on Friday.
The Supreme Court blocked President Biden’s first attempt at large-scale student debt relief last summer.
Boys and young men need guidance – not punishment – to avoid ‘manosphere’, teacher tells NEU
Teachers should promote positive masculinity in schools in England and Wales in order to support boys who might otherwise feel demonised and end up turning to “the manosphere” for hope, a union conference has been told.
Charlotte Keogh, a secondary school English teacher from Worcestershire, said boys...
Teachers fear sexism is on the rise in schools because of harmful content on children’s phones.
The head teacher, whose suicide was linked to an Ofsted visit, recorded a video message in lockdown.
[Vanguard] The Chancellor, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Dr Tunji Olowolafe, has announced a N1 billion innovation fund designed to empower agro-tech companies founded by present graduands and students of the institution.
Prof Julia Waters gives emotional speech at NEU conference and shares video of her late sister addressing pupils
The sister of Ruth Perry, the headteacher who killed herself after an Ofsted inspection, has appealed to any teachers or school leaders considering suicide to think again, describing it as “a terrible, wrong-headed option”.
In an emotional address to delegates attending the annual...
[Namibian] One Economy Foundation’s gender and child protection activist Veronica Theron says dress codes should also apply to men.
[Leadership] President Bola Tinubu a couple of days ago signed a pivotal piece of legislation into law aimed at transforming tertiary education financing in Nigeria.