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[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has announced the release of the 2026 June Ordinary and Advanced Level examination results, with candidates able to access them online from 6pm Monday.
[SNA] Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Professor Ahmed Modawi Musa, and President of the Council of Higher Education of the Republic of Türkiye, Professor Erol Özvar, signed on Monday in the Turkish capital, Ankara, a protocol establishing the Sudanese-Turkish University in Khartoum, in a step reflecting the strength of bilateral relations and opening new horizons for...
Soon after my first visit to Ukraine four years ago, I began language lessons. It taught me more than I ever expected
Almost as soon as I returned from my first reporting trip to Ukraine, in October 2022, I decided to start Ukrainian lessons. Not as an act of solidarity, exactly, but as a marker that I was committed to returning. I wanted to know some Ukrainian in order to feel less helpless,...
A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
India has the biggest youth population in the world but few are able to find good jobs despite rising education levels.
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.
Readers see the saga as a symbol of Trump administration failures. Also: Ominous plans for Head Start; land acknowledgments.
Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study finds
Children who open social media accounts at the start of secondary school appear to perform worse in tests than those who delay, with researchers suspecting that the constant checking for updates is a major distraction for many students.
Pupils who opened their first social media...
Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, who exited the show after clashing with executives at CBS News, will teach reporting skills.
The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.
Critics say the one size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for all students and there are questions about the body that helped design it
Michelle’s year-eight daughter, Leah*, has been in and out of hospital since birth with complex medical issues, and Michelle says flexible learning through a Montessori program has allowed her to keep up with school.
She says the Montessori stream at their nearby...
Thousands of budding US novelists enlist in courses each year, hoping to gain credentials that often influence who gets published
Thomas Pynchon was known to avoid the press and refuse interviews. There are only two official photographs of the Gravity’s Rainbow author available publicly – one taken at high school, the other during his time in the navy. He is the embodiment of the American...
[Ghanaian Times] The Minister of Education, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has declared a zero-tolerance policy towards indiscipline in Senior High Schools (SHSs), assuring school authorities of the government’s full support to enforce discipline and maintain safe learning environments.
[Parliament of South Africa] The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education will from tomorrow until Friday conduct oversight visits to the University of Mpumalanga and the various Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges in the province.
[New Times] Ugandan teen content creator Tenge Tenge has opened up about his remarkable journey from a boy who could not afford to attend school to becoming one of Africa’s most recognised internet personalities.
Educational traditionalism is not the same as political conservatism.
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies.
A new report by the Center for New York City Affairs projected that a child care system for all children under 5 could cost the city about $9 billion a year.
[This Day] Abuja — ActionAid Nigeria has called on the Federal and state governments to redirect public spending from what it described as “prestige projects” and excessive government luxuries to investments that directly improve the lives of Nigerians, saying the country’s limited resources should be deployed to sectors with the greatest social impact.