SATURDAY, 31 JANUARY 2026, 05:27
[Liberian Observer] President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has reaffirmed his Administration’s unwavering commitment to inclusive education, highlighting that children with disabilities are central to Liberia’s national development agenda.
I thought my articles and radio shows made an impact on people. A notice in the staffroom suggested otherwise
I recently spent a day at a secondary school in Birmingham. I agreed to do it because I like being in Birmingham and I like going to schools, and also because the teacher asked nicely. It was only the day before that I read the invitation properly and saw, to my horror, that I was...
Two different nursing school programs in Ohio offer a glimpse into what may happen when federal student borrowing has limits.
In the UK, 98% of two-year-olds watch screens on a typical day, on average for more than two hours – and almost 40% of three- to five-year-olds use social media. Could this lead to alarming outcomes?
At Stoke primary school in Coventry, there are many four-year-olds among those starting in reception class who can’t sit still, hold a pencil or speak more than a four-word sentence. Lucy Fox,...
The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis
Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiatives, the flagship being the education department’s National Year of Reading 2026, which kicked...
Survey finds rising numbers of reception pupils struggling with basic life skills such as eating independently
About one in four children who started reception in 2025 were not toilet trained, a survey of teachers has found, prompting warnings that growing numbers of pupils are struggling with basic life skills.
In an annual survey of primary school staff in England by the early years charity...
Nicky Perfect shares three practical tricks she learnt which will help you handle daily parenting battles.
A legal historian, she broke a gender barrier as the first woman to lead an Ivy League law school, serving as dean of Columbia Law from 1986 to 1991.
Staff at 20 West Midlands schools are currently on the picket lines in a dispute over job cut plans.
The administration withdrew its challenge to a ruling halting its effort to strip funding from schools and colleges with D.E.I. programs. It did not say why.
City of Wolverhampton Council says work was done on the school’s heating and air handling systems.
Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.
IFS says system failing to deliver for those who need it and ministers face stark choices with white paper imminent
The government is facing “crunch time” over the rising costs and failures of special needs education for children in England, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The IFS said government spending on educating children with special needs would double between...
Schools with more white children miss out on smaller class sizes and other benefits, the lawsuit says. The policy dates back to desegregation efforts in the 1970s.
In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders to learn cursive.
The federal government has sued the University of Pennsylvania for lists of Jewish employees. The university said the request recalls a “frightening” history.
Sunjit Kang who was head of ICT at Stockton’s Grangefield Academy, is banned from teaching.
This predicted figure includes the £70m deficit from the 2025-26 budget period.
The government said it expected schools to be “phone-free by default” as a result of the announcement.
Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities
Last month, students at Montclair State University in New Jersey held a mock funeral outside the university’s college of humanities and social sciences building. Carrying bouquets of flowers, they stood by a tombstone inscribed with the names of the school’s 15...
Total pay of the qualification body’s top six executives has risen by 240% to £6.2m since charity sold it
The new owners of the vocational training body City & Guilds appear to have more than tripled the pay of its top six executives right at the moment the company is cutting £22m of costs and shrinking its UK workforce.
The large increases to salary and bonuses have emerged during a scandal...