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[Nile Post] Dr Rouhallah Dehghani, Principal of Al Mustafa Islamic College, today, June 3, 2026, paid a courtesy visit to Next Media Park, where he held discussions on advancing Islamic education and strengthening Muslim community initiatives in Uganda.
Despite Labour’s promises to increase recruitment, school census shows a fall of nearly 2,000 teachers since last year
The number of teachers working in England’s state schools has shrunk for the second year in a row, even as the government said it was meeting its promises to increase recruitment where needed.
The annual school workforce census shows there are 466,300 teachers in state schools...
[New Times] Five Rwandan students at Kent State University in United States, on Wednesday June 3, had their first training flight.
[Premium Times] The Oyo State Police Command has dismissed a claim circulating on social media that the schoolchildren and teachers abducted from Ahoro-Esiele and Yawota communities in Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State had been rescued.
[Namibian] The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) on Tuesday met with student body organisations to discuss ongoing delays in the disbursement of student tuition and non-tuition funds.
[Leadership] The Association of Orphanages and Home Operators in Nigeria (ASOHON), Oyo State chapter, in collaboration with the Child Protection Network (CPN), has called for the immediate and safe release of schoolchildren and their headmistress reportedly abducted in Ibadan last month.
[Leadership] The Oyo State Government has debunked a viral video circulating on social media claiming that pupils, students, and teachers abducted in Oriire Local Government Area have been released.
[Health-e] Samkelisiwe Khumalo first noticed cavities in her daughter Unathi’s teeth when she was four. Two years later, Unathi has sixteen cavities-six in her bottom teeth and ten in her upper. She has never seen a dentist.
[Liberian Observer] In a bold move aimed at easing the financial burden on students and widening access to higher education, The Salvation Army Polytechnic University has announced a 50 percent reduction in tuition costs across all its colleges.
[This Day] There is a quiet crisis unfolding in the halls of our universities. As generative artificial intelligence becomes a staple of the modern toolkit, a parallel industry has emerged promising to catch the machines at work. For many lecturers and academic boards, these AI detectors have been welcomed as a digital thin blue line, a way to maintain the sanctity of original thought.
Ofqual chief says invigilators are being trained to detect devices like smart glasses and hidden earpieces.
The union argues that instead of cutting teacher recruitment, the government should use falling pupil numbers to make class sizes smaller.
Civil rights scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw warns Birmingham City University’s decision part of extremist campaign that has ‘travelled across Atlantic’
A leading US civil rights scholar has urged Birmingham City University (BCU) to reverse its decision to close its black studies course, comparing it with the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion in the US.
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law...
Internal documents show how tech giants grabbed children’s attention throughout the day, a strategy that schools say has undermined education.
The boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX is the world’s richest person and has used his platform to make his views known on a vast array of topics.
[Leadership] The protest by teachers over the abductions of their colleagues and school children in Oyo and Borno States continued yesterday in Zamfara, Yobe and Akwa Ibom States. Teachers in Abuja and states across the country had been protesting the kidnapping incidents.
[Vanguard] ABUJA — The Senate yesterday asked the Federal Government to intensify efforts and deploy all necessary resources for immediate rescue of teachers, pupils and students abducted by terrorists in Oyo and Borno states.
Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham
Cheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as smartglasses or invisible earpieces, according to England’s qualifications watchdog.
Ian Bauckham, the head of the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), also...
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Loreto Girls’ High School Limuru has been closed indefinitely following a student unrest incident reported on Tuesday, June 3.
[The Conversation Africa] South African teacher education qualifications are expected to comply with the Minimum Requirements for Teacher Education Qualifications. But evidence points to gaps in teacher competence and the quality of instruction. Many students who enrol for teaching at South African universities have lower grade 12 results than those studying other degrees. This means...
[The Conversation Africa] In most multilingual African countries, language policy is a highly charged and controversial issue. It touches on regional identity, religion and political power – as is evident in Chad, in central Africa.