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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, has called on the University of Liberia Faculty Association to champion a new era of mentorship, research, critical thinking, and institutional transformation at the University of Liberia.
[Liberian Observer] Liberia is poised to make history on May 16, 2026, with the hosting of its first-ever Student-Led Chemistry Symposium, an initiative expected to bring together 750 students in a major push to strengthen practical science education.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Kenya is reforming the education system to ensure that learners keep pace with a fast-changing global labour market, especially in technology, President William Ruto has said.
At the end of 2024, Keir Starmer announced key government targets including on NHS waiting lists and building new homes, how is he getting on?
Students say they have been passed over for jobs and interviews because of visa restrictions. Some have a Plan B: leaving the United States.
Students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries after it was cut from the Common Core curriculum. Some states are reintroducing it into schools.
Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’
Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.
Cambridge’s leadership...
We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act
The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...
Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.
A gunman’s attack at the April dinner has spurred more debate than usual about one of Washington’s most dissected rituals.
A new tool on the university’s website tells you what the first year “will” cost if you get in.
The National Education Union says it will hold a formal ballot this autumn without “urgent action”.
At the city’s Great Exhibition of 1904, 57 Somali men, women and children cooked, weaved and danced for visitors
It was, the posters said, a rare chance to see a “little known but interesting people”: a live display of 57 Somali men, women and children who cooked, weaved and danced for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Edwardians who flocked to Yorkshire to see them.
More than 120...
Harvard’s boxing club is drawing new members. So are boxing clubs at other colleges, as students look for real-life connection.
A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil’s immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.
Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.
Harassment reported by 35% of students at ‘high tariff’ institutions compared with 17% at those with lowest entry grades
Students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions, according to analysis.
Data from a national survey of undergraduates shows that 35% of students at “high tariff”...
Kirsten Beyer was assessing the benefits of improving school playgrounds in Milwaukee. Then her E.P.A. grant was canceled.
With fewer students, many school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures.
A hacking group that claimed responsibility for attacking Canvas’s parent company said it had gained access to data from more than 275 million people across 9,000 schools.