WEDNESDAY, 22 JANUARY 2025, 06:18
Tower Hamlets will offer help up to £150 a child for households earning less than £50,350
A London council is likely to become the first in England to offer a “universal” payment towards school uniform costs to households on an income of less than £50,350.
MPs were this week debating government plans to ban schools in England from requiring parents to buy more than three branded uniform items,...
The language and style of British Conservatism is now taken directly from the fact-free world of online conspiracy
Things can only get worse, as Musk-Trumpery continues to invade British politics. The outrageous smears and falsehoods – Elon Musk posted 200 times on X about “grooming gangs” in three days – included the claim that Keir Starmer is “hiding terrible things”.
The era when the...
The National Education Union in England will ballot over strike action on pay and school funding.
[Namibian] The body of the pupil who drowned at Lake Guinas near Tsumeb during a school trip has finally been retrieved.
[Nile Post] The Committee on Education and Sports has tasked the Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) to extend technical and vocational training services to prisons.
[Ghanaian Times] Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang officially took office yesterday becoming the first female Vice President of Ghana.
[Premium Times] The two other campuses of the state-owned university are in Malete and Ilesha Baruba, both in the Kwara North Senatorial District.
[The Point] The National Assembly Member (NAM) for Banjul North, Hon. Modou Lamin B. Bah, has presented scholarships to 10 students in his constituency.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — The 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results can be accessed on the Kenya National Examinations Council portal, https://results.knec.ac.ke
[FrontPageAfrica] Paynesville — In a landmark achievement for Liberia, the Liberian Learning Center was officially launched by Empowerment Squared in Paynesville. The event, held at the Effort Baptist Church, marked a historic step towards advancing education and fostering community development in the country.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP), a campus-based political movement and the leading student political party at the University of Liberia (UL), has formally endorsed the appointment of Dr. Layli Maparyan as the institution’s 16th president.
[Capital FM] The Ministry of Education has announced the introduction of a mid-year Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination, set to take place annually in July.
A resolution by the American Historical Association hardens the perception that academia has become fundamentally politicized.
[Premium Times] Even though the IED incident left a tale of terror on them, the displaced family of Ilyasu and the Almajiri school will now have to cope with suspicion from their neighbours, most of whom are Gbagyi, a dominant ethnic group in rural Abuja communities.
Policy change by Blaenau Gwent council means teachers will no longer change nappies or pull-ups unless there is a ‘medically recognised need’
Parents in Blaenau Gwent, Wales, have been told they have to come to school to change nappies if their children are not toilet trained.
The local authority told parents that it was their responsibility to ensure children knew how to use a toilet before...
[This Day] As schools resumed nationwide for the new academic session after the Christmas and New Year holidays, Lagos State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Hon. Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun, yesterday called on teachers to take a more active role in improving the quality of education in the state.
Prime minister told Commons any new inquiry into child abuse would delay progress however spokesperson says he has not ruled one out
Reform UK has also tabled a reasoned amendment to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill motion tonight. It says:
That this house declines to give a second reading to the children’s wellbeing and schools bill because the secretary of state for the Home...
[Daily Trust] School administrators in Abuja, on Monday, urged students to put in their best as schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs resume for second term academic session.
[Daily Trust] Two persons were killed in a suspected bomb explosion that occurred yesterday at an Islamiyya school located at Kuchibiyu community in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
At least 18 of the 80 school districts in the county announced that schools would be closed and urged parents to take precautions as at least four wildfires burned.
Loughborough Amherst School bosses say they plan to close at the end of the academic year.