WEDNESDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2025, 06:12
White House had demanded $1.2bn from UC to restore funding after saying it allowed antisemitism on campus
The Trump administration cannot fine the University of California or summarily cut the school system’s federal funding over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimination, a federal judge ruled late on Friday in a sharply worded decision.
US district judge Rita Lin in San...
The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.
Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.
Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.
Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.
Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the...
Nathan Wyatt’s experience led to a new law giving students more time to find somewhere to live.
An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.
The student, the president of the school’s College Republicans club, said he reported immigrant carwash workers. Now he is facing online attacks after nine of the workers were detained.
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”
[Ghanaian Times] The University of Ghana (UG) has officially launched the 100 Years of Highlife Music in Ghana celebration, marking a century of the country’s most iconic musical genre.
[Vanguard] The House of Representatives has directed the Federal Ministry of Education and the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to suspend the planned commencement of Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for the 2026 examination with immediate effect.
A temporary classroom site is being created nearby to allow Denbigh primary to close for six months.
Councils say 59 authorities could go bankrupt by March 2028 without urgent structural reform
Special educational needs services in England face “total collapse”, with councils on course to have run up debts of £18bn by the end of the decade as a result of increasing numbers of children requiring extra teaching support in schools.
Without urgent structural reform of the system, the cost of...
[Vanguard] When on November 12, 2024 Senator Monday Okpebholo took office as the governor of Edo State and said that education would be one of his priority areas, was shown few days after when he appointed Dr Emmanuel Paddy Iyamu as the Executive Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board. That was among the initial appointments the governor made. Iyamu has since been moved to the...
[Leadership] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned the federal government to honour its agreements with university lecturers or face another nationwide strike.
[Vanguard] The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has submitted all documents requested by the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies, marking a major step in the ongoing probe into the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) crisis.
[Daily Trust] A Muslim group, Edo Muslims for Good Governance (EMGG), has taken the Edo State Government to court over its decision to hand over public schools to the Catholic Mission.
[SNA] Madani — The Wali (governor) of Al-Gezira State Al-Tahir Ibrahim Al-Khair welcomed the work of the World Food Programme (WFP) in the state.
[Liberian Investigator] CAPITOL HILL — Grand Bassa County District 3 Representative Matthew Joe is urging the House of Representatives to increase budget support for Grand Bassa University (GBU), arguing that the institution is being underfunded compared to other county-based higher education institutions.
[Liberian Investigator] BENTOL CITY — The Liberia National Red Cross Society (LNRCS), through its Youth and Volunteer Development Commission, in collaboration with the Yayeh Initiative, has provided essential school supplies to more than 70 students in Bentol City–renewing its commitment to empower Liberia’s next generation of humanitarian leaders.