Malawi’s Rastafarian children return to school after ban on dreadlocks is lifted
Schools told to honour court order as families seek compensation and training for pupils who missed education because of their hair About 1,200 Rastafarian children...
Category : Education
Egyptian army has turned Sinai schools into military bases, says rights group
Exclusive: group says military is compromising children’s right to education with its campaign against militants Egyptian forces have taken over 37 schools and transformed them...
‘I came here to escape’: Toronto tackles caste-based discrimination in schools
Activists hopeful as Canada’s largest school district takes first step towards banning caste discrimination When Vijay Puli arrived in Toronto with his wife and baby...
Canada: university president to take leave amid controversy over Indigenous ancestry claim
Incident involving Vianne Timmons is latest high-profile case of apparent cultural identity fraud The president of a Canadian university has apologized and is taking a...
Forgotten photos show how Kenyan archaeologists unearthed secrets of their own country
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era The photographs are rare, the subject choice unusual,...
New Zealand pulls funding for school Shakespeare festival, citing ‘canon of imperialism’
Secondary school competition ‘did not demonstrate the relevance to the contemporary art context of Aotearoa’ New Zealand’s arts council has pulled funding for a Shakespeare...
Sudan faces ‘generational catastrophe’ as millions of children miss school
Floods, militia raids and hunger mean a third of children are not in school at all, while the rest have too few teachers, aid groups...
Horn of Africa drought puts 3.6m children at risk of dropping out of school
Experts warn that girls’ education will be worst hit, as many families are forced to move away from schools More than 3.5 million children are...
Beijing-backed Chinese language schools in UK to be replaced with teachers from Taiwan
MPs in talks with Taiwan to help phase out Confucius Institutes as relations between the countries worsen A group of cross-party MPs is in talks...
Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime Max Mendoza has...
