Oxford and Cambridge university students on Monday launched Gaza encampments on campuses as protests across UK universities spread.Videos posted to social media show rows of tents on campus lawns and banners that read: “Welcome to the people’s university for Palestine.”
The report has been influenced by recent blasphemy cases, which has seen some teachers forced into hiding
I still dream of the school lunch.
The conceit of our universities is that they’re bastions of free speech, enlightened thinking and eloquent debate. However, at Cambridge last week, rather than engage in coherent, informed discussion about a complex matter, students and pro-Palestinian protestors instead preferred to “cancel” me. Our world-beating higher education system really ought to be a bit better than this.
"I am no longer just a teacher. I am now a social worker, therapist, guidance counselor, parent, etc. all while trying to get kids to care about whatever topic we're covering."
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — Atef Al-Buhaisi, 6, once dreamed of a career building houses. In Israel's war with Hamas, Atef's home has been bombed, his teacher killed and his school in Nuseirat turned into a refuge for displaced people. Since the war erupted Oct. 7, all of Gaza's schools have closed — leaving hundreds of thousands of students like Atef without formal schooling or a safe place to spend their days.
A campus Palestinian solidarity movement rolled into Saskatchewan's two universities with dual events on Friday.The all-day events at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and the University of Regina featured activities such as teach-ins, letter writing, and speeches from students, professors and Palestinians.Protests across the country have followed others that began on campuses in the United States. At some universities in Canada, encampments have popped up, and some have been dismantle
Helms Ategeka, a high school senior in Oakland, California, received admissions to 122 colleges and universities. With almost too many choices, he and his father had to work through their differences about which school he should choose.
All four of Edinburgh's Universities were able to place in the top 100 of the UK League Table. Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt were able to crack the top 50 but Edin Uni lost out on stop spot.
Widespread disruption expected after workers vote to hold series of strikes, starting Monday with UC Santa Cruz
The University of Pennsylvania police arrested 19 pro-Palestinian protesters Friday night after they allegedly tried to occupy a campus building, the school said. The university's police department said the protesters, the majority of whom were not students, attempted to get into Fisher-Bennett Hall when campus officers and officers from the Philadelphia Police Department intervened. Officers were seen scuffling with protesters and several people were taken away in handcuffs.
Anne Smith was introduced to parkrun by a friend back in 2014 and began running once a week, before volunteering.
A secondary school in Swindon has opened a brand new professional gym that claims to be ‘one of the best school gyms in the county’.
Colleges that used police force to end their recent on-campus student protests are facing criticism for their handling of the situation, but so are the small handful that cut deals to end the demonstrations. The few universities that successfully negotiated to end the pro-Palestinian encampments — among them Northwestern, Brown, Rutgers and Johns Hopkins —…
Ralph Kennedy Frasier, the final surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina's flagship public university in the 1950s, has died. Frasier, who had been in declining health over the past several months, died May 8 at age 85 at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, according to son Ralph Frasier Jr. A memorial service was scheduled for Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, where Frasier spent much of his working career. Frasier, his older brother LeRoy, and John Lewis Brandon — all Durham high school classmates — fought successfully against Jim Crow laws when they were able to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1955.
Seventy years after the Supreme Court acknowledged that “separate but equal” had no place in the United States, one of history’s most celebrated legal opinions is being used by conservative groups to challenge race-related policies in schools across the country.
The Victim Support charity said schools should be encouraging pupils to develop skills to challenge racism when they see it.
Ben Miller has said that pupils at top private schools often look bored when he reads to them, but when he visits state schools the students “nearly start a riot”.
A Lakota student's traditional feather plume was cut off her graduation cap during her high school commencement ceremony this week in northwestern New Mexico. It was during the national anthem Monday night when Farmington High School faculty members approached the student, Genesis White Bull, and confiscated her cap, the Tri-City Record reported. The top of it had been decorated with traditional beadwork and an aópazan — Lakota for plume.
A new school streets initiative has been implemented at the St Mary and St John school in Oxford as well as the Tyndale School.
Residents are being invited to a free evening lecture at the AECC University College in Boscombe.
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