WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL 2025, 04:37
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only beginning to...
[Daily Trust] Eight candidates shortlisted for teaching jobs by the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) have been disqualified after testing positive for banned substances.
The action is being taken over redundancies, which the university says comes at an extremely challenging time for the sector.
Kirsti Nicole Hadley says parents face huge amounts of unpaid work due to systemic issues.
Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving?
It’s hard to get romantic about the death of office jobs.
Nobody waxes lyrical about the glory days of working in payroll, and Bruce Springsteen doesn’t fill stadiums with soaring anthems about middle management headcount. But whether the recipient’s collar is white...
Education department says $2.3bn in funds to be frozen after university rejects slew of demands as political ploy
The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said on Monday.
The announcement comes after the Ivy League school has decided to fight the White House’s demands that it crack down on antisemitism and alleged civil rights...
But a fight with the nation’s oldest, richest and most elite university is a battle that President Trump and his powerful aide, Stephen Miller, want to have.
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.
In a message, the university’s president said it will not ‘surrender its independence’ amid crackdown on education
Harvard University said Monday that it will not comply with a new list of demands from the Trump administration issued last week that the government says are designed to crackdown on antisemitism and alleged civil rights violations at elite academic institutions.
In a message to...
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
The answers to today’s puzzles
Earlier today I set three number puzzles. Here they are again with solutions.
1. Well balanced
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The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
[Namibian] Modestus Atshipara, National Assembly, Windhoek, April 2025
Placing a preschool or day care center in a building can help sell the development to the community. It also makes the city stronger.
Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use.
Three, two, one…
Today, we’re down with the digits. Here are three elegant number puzzles, each nudging your brain to think creatively in different ways.
1. Well balanced
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The new classrooms will give a “much needed boost” to pupils.
Research from the NEU suggests only 1.5% of school staff unaffected by stress at work
Stress is taking an “immense toll” on the lives of teachers in England, with only 1.5% of those working in schools unaffected by the high levels of strain that plagues their colleagues.
The findings from research by the National Education Union (NEU) reveal that one in three state school teachers in England...
[Capital FM] Nairobi — President William Ruto has broken his silence on the ongoing controversy surrounding the actions by police against students from Butere Girls High School during their attempt to perform the play Echoes of War at the Kenya National Drama and Film Festival in Nakuru County.
[Afrobarometer] Fewer than half of young citizens expect things to get better in the near future.