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Increased tuition fees in England and Wales mean that students are likely to graduate with more debt.
[FrontPageAfrica] The Liberian Government through the Health Ministry, has launched a new Midwifery School at Bomi Community College (BCC), naming and styling it “Kartumu Boakai School of Midwifery” in honor of Liberia’s First Lady, Kartumu Boakai.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia, Liberia — The leadership of the University of Liberia’s 105th Graduate Class has applauded President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for honoring their appeal to support the establishment of a modern research laboratory at the state-run university, describing the pledge as a transformative investment in research, innovation and academic excellence.

Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on a family that did not exist
The Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases.
Ian Fraser, a freelance journalist and author, complained to the Independent Press Standards...
[African Union] Ministers responsible for school meals and education from African Union Member States, together with development partners, civil society, private sector representatives, researchers, youth and children, concluded the 11th Africa Day of School Feeding in Gaborone, Botswana, with a renewed commitment to strengthen integrated school feeding systems across the continent.
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As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human
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Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam county, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy...
The vice president’s political transformation from Trump skeptic to MAGA superstar has many roots.

Welsh language commissioner calls for ‘transformative’ intervention, amid Reform UK threats to undo new powers
A “revolution is required” to protect the Welsh language, according to a major new report.
While the number of Cymraeg speakers has remained more or less stable for decades, it has not risen in line with significant population growth, making the language more vulnerable, according to...

I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack
Two years ago, at the age of 39, I began training to be a school teacher. I wanted to teach English – to help young people become stronger readers, writers and thinkers, with a deeper connection to literature. After 15 years...

Graduates hired to deliver the presentations a decade ago were told to avoid using words like “debt”.
The first lady advocated an increased focus on education and empathy, as her husband has waged war in the Middle East and sought to cut education funding at home.

Parents of Vincent Chan’s victims will meet the education secretary to press her on safeguarding.
Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.
A number of major universities with campuses in Qatar and other nations are operating remotely as the conflict expands throughout the region.

Plans to resurrect the children’s services decimated by austerity are appealing. But schools also need attention
Heavily trailed reforms to special educational needs and disabilities (Send) education dominated coverage of last week’s schools white paper. But Bridget Phillipson’s policy of in-sourcing special provision, creating a new tier of support and making mainstream settings more...

The queen of children’s edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet. Cue absolute relief for parents the world over
For those whose cultural experiences are largely absorbed through the prism of their mewling infants’ demands for the same thing 437 times in a row, it’s been a long four months. In late October last...

The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore
The west is in the midst of the most serious assault on free speech and academic freedom since the heyday of McCarthyism seven decades ago. For years, we were told the danger came from the left: oversensitive students, censorious activists, no-platforming...
Universities from Harvard to Hampshire have admitted significantly more students with disabilities over the last decade, as diagnoses for A.D.H.D. and anxiety increase.

A worker who was bitten three times by an eight-year-old boy wants more support from the council.
This could be a pivotal year in shaping what role artificial intelligence plays in American schools. Some families want Mayor Mamdani to hit the brakes.