FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024, 22:05
Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
If you zoomed out on the universe, well beyond the level of planets, stars or galaxies, you would eventually see a vast, evenly speckled expanse with no notable features. At least, that has been the conventional view.
The principle that everything...
Leading barrister warns that the kit – used to support gender-questioning children – is likely to be in breach of equality laws and could violate pupils’ rights
Schools in England and Wales have been warned by one of the country’s leading equality and human rights barristers that the “toolkit” many of them use to support gender-questioning children is unlawful.
The toolkit, introduced by...
Readers discuss the reasons for the spike since the pandemic and how to lure students back.
The income-driven plan known as SAVE has reduced payments for millions of borrowers. Lawsuits by Republican-led states are seeking to upend it.
Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm.
The announcement is the latest in a piecemeal approach the White House is using to target more specific subsets of borrowers.
Reasons for children not wanting school meals include portion sizes and noisy canteens.
[SAnews.gov.za] Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Professor Blade Nzimande, has dissolved the board of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and placed it under administration.
[GroundUp] We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi
Schools warn thousands of parents on Tyneside about malicious group chats on the messaging app.
Welcome to the new “Office of Access and Engagement.” Schools are renaming departments and job titles to try to preserve diversity programs.
[New Times] Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) has said that in the upcoming fiscal year, it plans to distribute a new book detailing the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi to students and young people in schools.
Skateboarding is one of 13 new sports which will be allowed as part of GCSE PE from September 2026.
The government’s scheme which offers free period products in schools is due to end in July.
[Daily Maverick] The following statement was submitted for discussion to the Stellenbosch University Senate. We are awaiting a special meeting of the Senate to further debate the matter. The signatories below have signed in their individual capacity as members of the Stellenbosch University Senate.
[Leadership] The inhabitants of Iru Egbede community in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo, are grieving over the alleged disappearance of 19 year-old Faith Omodon, a 200-level undergraduate of Delta State University (Delsu).
[Leadership] National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has shifted the investiture of the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, as its new chancellor to Saturday.
The offer includes an improved £30,000 starting salary as well as an 8.4% pay rise for lecturers.
The university is the latest in a series of highly selective schools to end its test-optional policy.
[Nile Post] The Government of Belgium has committed financial and technical assistance to support research, agriculture, innovation, and tourism initiatives in the country’s public universities.