Educators Sue to Keep Immigration Agents From Schools and Bus Stops
The lawsuit is challenging a Trump administration policy allowing federal agents near locations such as schools, churches and hospitals.
FRIDAY, 06 FEBRUARY 2026, 05:14
The lawsuit is challenging a Trump administration policy allowing federal agents near locations such as schools, churches and hospitals.
In New York City, health officials have moved to shut down one center where workers were charged with child abuse. Records show that problems extend across the network.
[Namibian] Windhoek mayor reacts to minister’s calls for councillors to be ‘learned’
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, agreed to help Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s daughter after Jeffrey Epstein connected them, emails released by the Justice Department show.
In a federal lawsuit, the lecturer, Melissa McCoul, accused the university of violating the First Amendment.
[Daily Trust] The Kogi State Government has ordered the temporary closure of schools across the state for two weeks as part of efforts to safeguard lives and property.
School communities are central to organizing against federal harassment.
[Daily Maverick] In what has become a grimly familiar start to the academic year, Cape Peninsula University of Technology continues to struggle to place students in accommodation. Many have slept outside the District Six campus, while others are being moved into temporary housing. Their spokesperson says while they are ‘compassionate to those who apply and don’t get accepted’, their priority is...
[Daily Maverick] Without an urgent pivot toward Grade R-3 literacy and parental empowerment, the South African educational system remains a ‘certificate factory’ rather than a centre of human capital development.
[Leadership] The 16th Emir of Kano, His Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, has blamed the persistence of child marriage in parts of Northern Nigeria on the failure of government to provide adequate schools and structured opportunities for young girls after primary education.
[Daily Trust] Professor Muhammad Inuwa Ja’afaru has emerged as the new Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Kashere, Gombe State.
[This Day] The higher education system of any nation is designed as a critical arm of the state to enlighten the society about the elements that make for social harmony and social order, while at the same time getting the citizens connected with the state’s policy and development priorities. The higher education system, in other words, is one of the crucial avenues by which a nation defines and...
[Liberian Observer] The Minister of Education, Dr. Jarso Maley Jallah, has been selected as the Guest Speaker for the Cohort 13 Graduation Ceremony of Gonet Academy, scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 7, 2026, at the Harvest Intercontinental Cathedral in Congo Town, Monrovia.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
[Premium Times] The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, announced the decision on Tuesday

Formal approval given for new university group to operate from August, with both institutions keeping their names
The universities of Greenwich and Kent have confirmed they have been given formal approval to merge into the UK’s first “super-university”.
The merged entity will be the third-largest higher education institution in the UK, the universities said, and is consulting on being named the...

The Scottish Charity Regulator said Fernhill School in Rutherglen had not submitted accounts for years.
[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA — Liberia has released its first national scorecard measuring how well the country is delivering on promises made to educate and protect girls, offering a long-awaited snapshot of both progress achieved and challenges that persist.
Academic pressure has become so intense that even preschoolers are taking private extracurricular classes, raising worries about children’s rights.

When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degrees
The seaside city of Southend-on-Sea, on England’s east coast, looks grey on a winter afternoon in term-time. Its cobbled high street, bordering the university campus, is sparsely populated...

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2018: snowflake students have become the target of a new rightwing crusade. But exaggerated claims of censorship reveal a deeper anxiety at the core of modern conservatism
By William Davies. Read by Lucy Scott
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