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Serbia schools to shut amid new protests over station collapse

Serbia's government on Friday announced plans to close schools early for winter holidays, as teachers and students joined nationwide protests over the collapse of a train station roof that killed 15 people last month.

Two killed in US school shooting, student suspect also dead

A student opened fire Monday at a school in the northern US state of Wisconsin, killing at least two people and injuring several others before apparently taking their own life, officials said.

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German teachers pushed out for calling out 'far-right' pupils

Two teachers have been pressured out of their jobs in a small German town after denouncing the alleged right-wing extremism of their pupils, in a case that sparked a national outcry.

US First Lady says 'proud' of return to UNESCO

US First Lady Jill Biden said on Tuesday she and her husband Joe were proud that their country had rejoined UNESCO, the UN cultural agency Washington had quit during the Trump administration.

UK Roald Dahl Museum acknowledges author's 'undeniable' racism

The Roald Dahl Museum in Britain has detailed work it is undertaking "towards combatting hate and prejudice," it said, acknowledging that the renowned children's writer's racism was "undeniable and indelible".

Yolanda Diaz, the Communist rallying Spain's left

"Less noise and more talking" is the rallying cry of Spain's popular Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz, who's hoping her straight-talking message of unity will reinvigorate Spain's radical left in Sunday's election.

In New York, over-enrolled school offers hope to migrant children

Last year siblings Eliezer, 10, and Elaiza, 12 traveled by bus and foot through eight countries from Venezuela to the United States.

Dangerous and degrading: pit toilets blight S.Africa schools

Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines -- a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude.

56-year-old 'gaokao holdout' fails to make the cut for 27th time

After failing to achieve a high enough score on China's dreaded college entry exam for the 27th time, 56-year-old Liang Shi is beginning to wonder if he will ever make it to his dream university.

US school test scores haven't recovered since pandemic

American 13-year-olds continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic, especially in mathematics, according to official data out Wednesday.

Abaya controversy tests French schools' secular limits

A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country's sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education.

Ugandans bury more victims of horrific school massacre

Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of last week's horrific school attack in the remote west of the country blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

Harvard morgue manager charged with selling stolen body parts

The morgue manager at America's prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permission and then sold them, US prosecutors said Wednesday.

Homework will 'never be the same' says ChatGPT founder

Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionise education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, ChatGPT's founder Sam Altman told students in Tokyo on Monday, defending the new technology.

UNICEF 'concerned' by reports of Taliban ban on foreign school NGOs

The Taliban government may have banned international NGOs from offering education to out-of-school Afghan children, UNICEF said Thursday, putting the teaching of half a million boys and girls at risk.

Millions of Chinese students sit gruelling college entrance exams

Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end.

Self-made millionaire sits China's university exams for 27th time

Among the millions of fresh-faced high schoolers sitting China's dreaded "gaokao" college entrance exam on Wednesday, Liang Shi sticks out like a sore thumb -- a grey-haired, self-made millionaire stubbornly taking the test for the 27th time.

Spell it out: Paris' Champs-Elysees hosts mass 'dictation'

Not to be outdone by US-style spelling bee extravaganzas, Paris's most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an open-air mass "dictation" spellathon Sunday, pitting thousands of France's brainiest bookworms against one another.

Students given community service over fatal hazing

A Belgian court on Friday sentenced 18 members of a college fraternity to community service over the death of a black student during a two-day hazing ritual in 2018.

Florida school curbs access to poem read at Biden inauguration

A Florida school has restricted access for students to the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration before a live audience of nearly 34 million people, the poet says.

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss rape trial

A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence against the former Oxford University professor.

Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confiscated phone: source

The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana is believed to have been started by a disgruntled pupil angry at having her mobile phone confiscated, a government source told AFP on Tuesday.

Defence pleads for Islamic scholar's acquittal at Swiss rape trial

Tariq Ramadan's lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted on the third and final day of his trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion.

Jack Ma takes up visiting professor post in Japan

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma on Monday took up a visiting professor position at a Japanese university, another new academic role for the founder of tech giant Alibaba.

Jack Ma accepts university teaching post in Hong Kong

Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the school announced Friday.

Funny-side up: Comedy booming in French-speaking Canada

Home to a prestigious comedy school, the world's largest annual laughs festival and nightclubs that pack in audiences for dozens of weekly stand-up shows, comedy is serious business in Montreal.

Teargas and pan bans as Macron faces fresh pension anger

French police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France to keep angry protesters away from President Emmanuel Macron, who was the target of chants and heckles for a second day over his unpopular pension reform.

Brazil mourns children killed in preschool attack

The families of four children killed at a Brazilian preschool held emotional funerals for them Thursday, a day after an attacker murdered them with a hatchet in a crime that has shocked the nation.

Teens lured to Marseille become 'slaves' of its drugs war

Marseille's drug lords have a problem. Last year 32 of their foot soldiers were shot dead in the crime-plagued French Mediterranean port city.

Attacker kills four children with hatchet at Brazil preschool

A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as "monstrous."

US parents' dilemma: how to discuss school shootings without scaring kids

When Elizabeth Barese picked up her 11-year-old son from school on Monday, she knew she had to tell him that a shooting had happened the same day at the school neighboring their family home in Nashville.

Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in house

The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville bought and concealed multiple weapons in the family home, despite evidence of mental health issues, police said Tuesday.

Nashville police seek motive after school shooter kills six

Nashville police worked Tuesday to pin down a motive behind a murderous rampage that saw three elementary school pupils and three staff shot dead by a heavily armed former student in a carefully planned and executed assault.

Founder of Afghan girls' school project arrested in Kabul

The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the United Nations said Tuesday.

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