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Meet the Mexican siblings who run a centre for genius children

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26/06/2023

Green News

Greta Thunberg is staging her final Fridays for Future school strike

Despite graduating, the Swedish climate activist behind the global school strikes says ‘The fight has only just begun’.

09/06/2023

USA

Two dead after high school graduation shooting in Virginia

According to police, one of the victims was an 18-year-old male student who had just graduated while the other was a 36-year-old man who attended the ceremony.

07/06/2023

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Watch: The Champs-Élysées hosts giant dictation competition

More than 50,000 people applied to participate in the event, a world first, in which hopefuls attempted to transcribe a text read to them, without making a mistake.

05/06/2023

Afghanistan

Nearly 80 young primary school girls poisoned in Afghanistan

Taliban authorities are investigating the poisoning of almost 80 primary school girls in separate cases in northern Afghanistan.

05/06/2023

Guyana

Police in Guyana think school fire that killed 19 girls was malicious

Police in the South American country of Guyana think a fire that resulted in the deaths of 19 schoolgirls in a dormitory was started deliberately.

23/05/2023

Serbia

Schoolboy detained after eight pupils and a guard shot dead in Serbia

A 13-year-old schoolboy has been detained in Belgrade, Serbia, after eight children and a guard were shot dead at a school.

03/05/2023

Russia

Russia scrubs Kyiv and Ukraine from school textbooks, reports

Some Russian textbooks have allegedly removed references to Kyiv and Ukraine, with analysts claiming Moscow is "rewriting history".

20/04/2023

USA

Bodycam footage shows moment police track down Audrey Hale

Nashville school shooting: Bodycamera footage shows moment police trackdown Audrey Hale

29/03/2023

World News

Three children and three adults killed in school shooting in Tennessee

Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday. Female shooter was a 28 year-old former student.

27/03/2023

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Afghan boys unaware school year has started, return to class days late

Many Afghan boys, unaware that the school year has started, return to class days late after the Taliban authorities fail to make a public announcement of the reopening of schools.

25/03/2023

Iran

Iran's Supreme leader condemns the poisonings at girls schools

In his first comments on the mystery poisonings, Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said those behind the school poisonings should face "severe punishment". More than a thousand female students have fallen ill since last November.

06/03/2023

World News

Young girls poisoned in Iran in suspected attempt to ‘close schools'

On Wednesday, over one hundred girls were sent to hospital after they were poisoned by gas at their schools, joining hundreds of similar cases since November

01/03/2023

France

Teacher stabbed to death by student near Biarritz in France

A teacher at a private school in Saint-Jean-de Luz near Biarritz has died after being fatally stabbed by a student on Wednesday.

22/02/2023

Portugal

Concern over low number of Ukraine children in Portuguese schools

Only about 32 per cent of the estimated 14,000 Ukrainian child refugees living in Portugal are attending local schools.

21/02/2023

United Kingdom

Largest wave of industrial action in decade expected in UK

Half a million workers expected to walk out in strikes across the UK, making it the largest wave of industrial action in more than 10 years

01/02/2023

Work

How ChatGPT is forcing teachers to reassess their teaching

The popular AI tool that generates convincing text in mere seconds is forcing teachers to rethink how they work.

28/01/2023

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Teacher in destroyed Ukrainian town turns living room into school

A Ukrainian teacher has turned his living room into a classroom after his school was damaged by Russian strikes.

27/01/2023

Ukraine

Ukrainian teacher turns home into a classroom to help shield students

A group of Ukrainian students is studying in their teacher’s living room because their classroom has been destroyed by Russian missiles.

27/01/2023

World News

Adult learning centres in Spain make lifelong learning a reality

According to the Ministry of Education, there are some 200,000 adult education students in Spain.

15/12/2022