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[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has called on universities, colleges, examination bodies, and professional regulators to tighten verification of academic qualifications in a bid to combat certificate forgery ahead of the 2027 General Elections.
A law requires the rollover money to have been in the 529 for at least 15 years. But it isn’t clear what happens if you change the account’s beneficiary.
The NCA and NPCC say children should be blocked from accessing sites which do not stop them seeing nudes or being contacted by strangers.
How can Cubans move forward if they aren’t ready to reckon with their past?
Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube
Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its social networks are designed to be addictive, leading to harm in children. The settlement comes less than three weeks before the case was scheduled to go to trial in federal...
The students held leadership positions in Republican groups. The racist rhetoric, documented in court papers, highlights a growing rift in the party.
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space
The play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Macci Dobie, the school’s...
Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me
Maths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level, to the extent that I chose to do it at A-level. As early as the first week of the A-level course, however, it became abundantly clear that the subject was quite beyond me. I simply couldn’t make head or tail of what the...
Making the case for a “useless” education.
We deserve an A-minus for effort.
Will A.I. replace them? Graduation speakers addressed student uncertainty about the future with jokes and words of wisdom.
Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman
Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”.
Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian...
They encountered demonstrations and ultimatums from the Trump administration. At Wednesday’s commencement, it was all about the sweltering weather.
A.I. is replicating the pattern followed by every ed-tech quick fix.
The education secretary defends videos starring The Only Way Is Essex star promoting post-16 education.
Plus, plans for a national voucher program.
Soft power institution faces funding crisis linked to Covid-era government loan due to be repaid by September
Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation.
Out of 130 of its teaching staff across Rome, Milan and Naples, 108 are being targeted as teaching activities in Italy face...
Mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges will go into effect in fall of 2027
Harvard faculty has voted to impose a roughly 20% cap on A grades in an effort to curb decades of grade inflation that, the faculty argues, degrades the value of top-tier academic achievement at the college.
The mandatory cap on top grades at one of America’s most prestigious colleges...
Muslims pointed to a rise in overt hatred online, political attacks and harassment in the months before the killing of three people outside an Islamic center.
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
College education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.