[Government of Mauritius] Four hundred and fifty Trainee Primary Educators will undergo an intensive two-year training course at the Mauritius Institute of Education and will eventually be placed in their respective schools. In this context, an induction ceremony was held, today, at the Paul Octave Wiéhé Auditorium in Réduit, with the aim to apprise them of their duties and the requisite...
[Daily Trust] The Benue State Internal Revenue Service (BIRS) on Monday sealed up business enterprises including schools, hotels and hospitals over tax evasion and non-filing of annual tax returns.
[Ayin English] After losing all hope for her five children to resume their educational journey, Hafsa Hassan, who was displaced from the city of Omdurman, has decided to seek refuge in a neighbouring country with her children so they could continue their studies.
The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Education Department, which found that the school had punished sexual assault victims but not their assailants and created a “culture of silence.”
Michelle Donelan had accused two members of Research England’s advisory group of ‘sharing extremist views’ in letter to UKRI
Michelle Donelan, the science minister, has apologised and paid damages after accusing two academics of “sharing extremist views” and one of them of supporting Hamas.
In a statement posted on X, the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology said she had...
Campaign to add financial topics to national curriculum in 2014 ‘counterproductive’ says founder of Money Saving Expert
Martin Lewis, the financial advice expert, accused the government of undermining his efforts to ensure children in England are taught about mortgages and credit cards, saying schools are suffering from a “poverty” of financial education.
[UCT] The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) invite students and staff to attend an open lecture with Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee.
[The Conversation Africa] School mathematics teaching is stuck in the past. An adult revisiting the school that they attended as a child would see only superficial changes from what they experienced themselves.
Some schools report that the annual call for children to wear book-themed costumes has been dropped to avoid further stretching family budgets
Some schools have scrapped costumes for World Book Day on Thursday, citing the cost of living crisis.
While in the past many schools asked children to dress up as their favourite book character for the event, in recent years some schools have adopted...
Research shows 166% rise of pupils missing one-tenth or more of school term
‘He hates failing’: mother describes lack of help for autistic son
Autistic pupils are being denied their basic right to education, a leading charity has warned, as figures reveal the number persistently off school has increased by 166% in four years.
The research shows that more than a quarter of autistic children in...
Educators shared their concerns with the Guardian about a deepening culture-war agenda fought over race and gender
An alliance of Indiana teacher unions has called for the removal of a website encouraging parents to report teaching material they perceive as indoctrination, saying it is dividing parents and teachers.
The state attorney general Todd Rokita launched the Eyes on Education portal...
Staff call for the state-appointed superintendent to be removed amid an implementation of a rigid curriculum as over 600 teachers resign
Teachers and other staff in the Houston Independent school district (HISD), which serves the fourth most populous city in the US, are calling for the state-appointed superintendent of the district to be removed amid a surge in resignations of employees, cuts...
[Premium Times] The report states that COVID-19 and insecurity are the most significant challenges impacting negatively on the education of girls in the six states studied.