SATURDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2025, 16:52
From Bible stories to the Ten Commandments, public schools are starting to look a lot like the fundamentalist system I escaped
When I got the chance to attend a conservative, evangelical high school in rural Iowa, I was ecstatic. My early education had been in a similar school – where creationism was the one true science, and evolution was satanic propaganda – and I’d spent the interim as...
[Ghanaian Times] Navrongo — THE Vice Chancellor for the C.K Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS), Professor Albert Luguterah, has encouraged students of the school to take their academic work seriously as they aspire for higher heights, despite school infrastructure.
[Premium Times] UNIZIK’s Chief Security Officer confirmed the incident on Tuesday.
Automated online application processes save time and money but are being targeted by ‘the future of fraud’
British universities seeking to save time and money by automating their interviews with international students face a new threat: “deepfake” applicants.
Enroly, a software platform used by a number of universities to automate their application processes, said it had uncovered something...
[GroundUp] NSFAS blamed for student accommodation challenges
[GroundUp] Lack of funding for food and electricity has forced at least one hostel to close
[GroundUp] Western Cape Education Department has urged the formation of a school governing body to help deal with issues at the school
[The Conversation Africa] Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th century? Or that South Africa became integrated into a global trading system only after 1652? Or that the first powerful state in South Africa was the Zulu kingdom?
What happens next has implications for the expiry of almost 600 similar PFI deals across England.
The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed
In one of David Lodge’s famous campus novels, a young English literature lecturer pictures her university as “the ideal human community, where … people were free to pursue excellence and self‑fulfilment, each according to their own rhythm and inclination”. A non-academic friend...
[Government of Mauritius] The 2024 Cambridge Higher School Certificate (HSC) examinations have seen a decline in student performance by 5.52%, with an overall pass rate of 78.88% for the Republic of Mauritius, down from 84.4% in the previous year.
The Department for Education says rule change means 10,000 more courses could be completed every year.
[Premium Times] The extortion by lawmakers is not limited to universities; polytechnics and colleges of education have also been targeted.
[Nile Post] Subjects such as Mathematics, English, and Science recorded slight improvements, while humanities subjects maintained steady performance levels.
[Namibian] The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture has directed schools to hold a special remembrance assembly in honour of the late founding president, Sam Nujoma.
A teenager kicked out of school praises an academy for giving her a passion for construction.
A parent says the school’s policy for top set students is “overtly cruel”.
[savethechildren_uk] Port Sudan — Save the Children analysed instances of violence in Sudan recorded by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) between 15 April 2023 and 31 January 2025 [1] and found over 700 violent events targeting civilians in the last three months of 2024 – much higher than any other quarter in the conflict.
Research by Education Policy Institute highlights groups it says are at greater risk of missing out on Send support
Send crisis in England risks creating ‘lost generation’ of children
Children in England experience huge variations in having their special educational needs identified depending on school type, background and levels of absence, according to research by the Education Policy...
[Nile Post] The gruesome murder of six-year-old Apio Joan Faith has left the Teso community in shock and mourning, with Paramount Chief Emorimor Paul Sande Emolot strongly condemning the act and calling for immediate justice.