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Education

Liberia: Avti Kakata Holds First Graduation

07 October at 18:46 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] – The Alsandra Vocational and Technical Institute (AVTI), Branch #2, on Saturday held its First Circle Graduation Convocation at the Calvary Baptist Church in Kakata, with a strong call for graduates to embrace entrepreneurship as a path to self-reliance and national development.

Eritrea: Awards to Outstanding Students in the Central Region

07 October at 17:31 PM, via AllAfrica

[Shabait] Awat and Freselam Elementary and Junior Schools in Asmara have provided awards to 418 outstanding students who scored high marks in the eighth-grade national examination for the 2024/2025 academic year.

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

07 October at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

Sticks are bad, but sometimes corruption through carrots is worse. The Trump administration – after having brutally cut federal funding earlier this year – is now trying to make nine universities an offer that they seemingly cannot refuse. In exchange for preferential treatment in funding and...

DfE failure to plan for Covid school closures was ‘extraordinary dereliction of duty’, academy head tells inquiry

06 October at 20:13 PM, via The Guardian

Jon Coles tells of shock at lack of planning by government and says it was ‘perfectly clear’ schools would likely close

The leader of one of the largest academy trusts in England has described the Department for Education’s failure to do any planning for school closures before lockdown in March 2020 as “an extraordinary dereliction of duty”.

Jon Coles, the chief executive of the United Learning...

Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students

06 October at 17:55 PM, via New York Times

Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.

Cycle tracking isn’t woo-woo or a tradwife tool. It’s essential education for everyone – no matter the gender | Freya Bennett

06 October at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

The 24-hour day might be perfectly synced to men’s hormonal cycle – but the menstrual cycle takes a longer view …

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Once a month without fail I decide to give up on all my goals and ambitions. “There’s just no point,” I sigh to my mother, who smiles and asks what day of my cycle I’m on. I grumble back, insisting it has nothing to do with...

How to Save a Book Festival

06 October at 12:02 PM, via New York Times

With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope.

A united Labour party is making Britain work better for all. We cannot allow our mission to be disrupted | Bridget Phillipson

06 October at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

I’ve delivered for tens of thousands of schoolchildren, lifting them out of poverty – as deputy leader I can deliver for all

Bridget Phillipson is the education secretary

Last week, conference showed the best of the Labour party: our collective strength, united, and with purpose. Our message to the British public was clear: that we offer decency, not decline, and that we’re determined to...

The fury at home left me terrified of anger. Until a teacher showed me how to use it as a force for good | Marisa Bate

06 October at 10:00 AM, via The Guardian

In an eye-opening drama class, Miss Smith taught me that rage didn’t only belong to men

We always knew it was coming. There were signs we’d learned to read: a change in atmosphere, the sound of the fridge door opening, wine glugging into a glass. And then it would arrive. My stepfather’s anger filled the house, even the rooms he wasn’t in. We breathed it in and out silently, waiting for...

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