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NAHT says changes are likely to harm school leaders’ mental health and it was not consulted adequately over the new grading system
Headteachers are taking legal action against Ofsted, England’s schools watchdog, over fears that its new inspection regime is “even worse than before” and likely to harm the mental health of school leaders.
The National Association of Head Teachers said it had...
‘Digital nutritionist’ Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage
Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help consumers control and improve their online media diet, according to a professor turned “digital nutritionist”.
These two measures, otherwise known as greyscaling and...
James B. Milliken will lead the California system, relinquishing his position as the chancellor of the University of Texas system.
College athletes have signed deals worth millions of dollars since the N.C.A.A. allowed student-athletes to become paid endorsers.
President Trump on Friday said he would be “taking away” the university’s status, renewing a threat he made last month. It was not immediately clear if the I.R.S. was moving forward with a change.
[Liberian Observer] Students at Aware International School System, an Indian-run institution located on the GSA Road in Paynesville, on Saturday, April 26, celebrated their Annual Cultural Festival, bringing together children of different nationalities who displayed their cultures.
The proposal seeks a cut of nearly 25 percent from the Title I budget for high-poverty schools at a time when the rate of children living in poverty in America is on the rise.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Parliament has initiated a landmark process to consolidate all existing education bursaries and funding streams in a bid to pave the way for free and compulsory basic education in Kenya.
[Vanguard] The federal government has approved a dual certification programme for federal colleges of education across the country.
[Unicef] Statement by UNICEF Representative to Sudan Sheldon Yett
Nine out of 10 school leaders tell survey they are finding it harder to meet special needs of pupils than a year ago
The crisis in special needs education appears to be worsening, with nine out of 10 school leaders finding it harder to meet pupils’ needs than they did a year ago, according to a survey.
Almost all (98%) of the respondents to a National Association of Head Teachers’ (NAHT) poll...
[FrontPageAfrica] Harper, Maryland — What was expected to be a democratic milestone at William V.S. Tubman University turned violent early Wednesday morning, forcing the administration to postpone student government elections originally scheduled for April 30, 2025.
Nato for higher education – a mutual defense pact is a long-shot approach, but it might just convince the bully in the White House to back off
Higher education is under attack from the person who inhabits the White House. Universities are being threatened with an array of punishments, including the cutoff of their federal contracts and grants, the loss of their nonprofit status and a tax on...
[New Times] Teenagers want sex education and access to contraceptives. The government agrees in principle–but progress is slow, and teenage pregnancy is rising.
Dominic Burke says staff at his school are “working harder and class sizes are going up”.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The government’s ambitious affordable housing initiative faces a significant hurdle as the National Treasury proposes removing value-added tax (VAT) exemptions on key construction materials.
[UCT] In a world increasingly preoccupied with who belongs and who decides, University of Cape Town (UCT) PhD graduate Eve Wong’s work on identity, marginality, and speculative future-crafting is reimagining not just the past, but the possibilities ahead.
Harvard has hired lawyers connected to conservative Supreme Court justices and President Trump himself to fight its case against the government.
Between pieces of advice like “don’t try to be someone else,” the president attacked political foes and discussed everything from egg prices to transgender rights, often to cheers from the crowd.
The NASUWT union wants early education on hate speech because pupils are already influenced by secondary school.
[SNA] President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, ratified the results of the postponed Sudanese Certificate exams for the year 2023.