As a researcher focussed on African, Afro-Caribbean and Black families’ schooling experiences, I appeal to school staff to understand the importance of the school-family-community partnership.
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman enters the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in April 2022.
(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Research into 70 new Taliban policies to control women and girls shows the extremist, misogynistic group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers to Afghan society.
While laptops have dropped in price, old-school supplies like pencils and markers are getting more expensive.
AP Photo/Marta Lavandier
Inflation is soaring, but prices for typical back-to-school gear like backpacks, computers and new clothes are rising less than average – or even falling.
Under Indonesian rules designed to protect religious freedom, female Muslim students are not compelled to wear “Muslim attire”. But those regulations are often interpreted differently by schools.
Too many seeking too few: jobseekers queuing at a Job Fair in New Delhi.
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Tara McAllister, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Leilani Walker, Auckland University of Technology, dan Sereana Naepi, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
New research examines why Māori and Pacific representation in university STEM subjects remain so stubbornly low.
Girls are often denied the chance of playing football as part of their physical education.
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Research suggests more should be spent on English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) support – earlier in the school system, before it’s too late.
Gilda Soosay, president of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Parish Council in Maskwacis, Canada, where Pope Francis visited the site of a state school for Indigenous children.
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A historian of the residential schools explains how religion played a key role in assimilationist systems for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States.
Undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska Omaha collaborate on a group assignment for a STEM course.
Derrick Nero, University of Nebraska Omaha
Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
Murder scene: an all-too common sight in Mexico/
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A programme of school building once helped reduce the murder rate in Mexico. It’s time for the government to double down on education for the sake of peace.
Community members want their schools to address issues beyond academics, new research suggests.
People gather outside Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in Toronto for a rally led by current and former international students calling for changes to immigration rules during COVID-19 in September 2020.
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International students are not only ideal candidates for settlement in Canada, they’re also vital to our prosperity. So why is it so difficult for them to come to Canada, especially those from Africa?
Universities throughout the country have obligations to ensure their graduates leave with the knowledge and skills necessary to interact in a culturally safe way with Indigenous people.
T.J. Thomson
Australian media have and do unfairly report on Indigenous affairs and toxic environments are leading to fewer First Nations journalists. Should universities put cultural safety in journalism courses?
Botany is disappearing from university modules in the UK.
Introductory science classes typically require students to memorize facts, rather than teaching them the basis of scientific thinking.
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In this week’s NSW disaster, federal-state relations have been much smoother (acknowledging that things can fray somewhat as the clean-up goes on). The Albanese government learned from watching its predecessor’s problems.