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Education

Liberia: UL Campuses to Get Facelift

13 January at 13:07 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] The University of Liberia is at a cross-road and the administration of its newly inducted president, Dr. Layli Maparyan, has a herculean task to undertake. Everyone knows that the nation’s premier institution of higher learning must be given all of the support to make strides as it molds the minds of the younger generations. At the core of UL’s perennial challenges are...

State school pupils in England may have to drop GSCE Latin after funding pulled

12 January at 19:31 PM, via The Guardian

DfE urged to delay ending funding of popular programme so that hundreds of students can complete their courses

• Axing the Latin excellence scheme: a classic mistake

State school pupils taking GCSE Latin may be forced to drop the subject or even have to teach themselves after the government ends funding for a popular programme that has increased the numbers learning Latin across England.

School...

Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time | Patrick Lum

12 January at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it

Mind your language: how learning French helped me remove the condom from the wine

I’d been learning Japanese on and off for years when, on New Year’s Day 2022, I realised I could still barely master the sushi bar menu. Three years on I’m now reading my...

It’s never too late: meet the adults making big changes later in life

12 January at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

Some people never learn to read or swim or even cook as children – but with the right spirit there’s still time to make things right

I was 44 when I learned to cycle. I grew up in Yorkshire and when I was about five, my younger brother had broken his leg falling off a tricycle. We never had bikes after that – and like many girls my age of Asian heritage, I wasn’t pushed to do sporty or...

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

11 January at 19:03 PM, via The Guardian

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

A scheme to bring powerful works of art into the classroom is to be rolled out across British secondary schools in the coming year, with the aim of reaching a million students daily in 1,000 schools by 2027.

Works by Van Gogh,...

‘I was terrified about parental backlash’: taking contested history into schools

11 January at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

Parallel Histories, one of three charities the Guardian is supporting this year, helps students navigate contemporary conflicts

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Half a million students studied GCSE or A-level history in the UK last year, but just 2,000 of them tackled the origins of the conflict raging in the Middle East. Why? According to one history teacher, Meredith Cann, schools often...

‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern

11 January at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts

World-leading drama schools in England are facing a financial crisis that threatens to turn back the clock, shutting down opportunities for talented young people from diverse and less privileged backgrounds, according to leading figures in the arts.

The warning came after one of the most...

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