April 09, 2021
The school system is paralyzed in Kolda. Teachers affiliated with the unions that make up the G6 have declared a strike of 48 renewable hours to demand the payment of travel allowances for the general Baccalaureate and Technical Baccalaureate exams.
April 08, 2021
Morocco Ministry of Education announces a change in their education curriculum to include Jewish history and culture. Morocco also became the fourth Arab nation since August to announce a US-brokered deal to normalise relations with Israel.
April 07, 2021
Brazil Ministry of Education announced that they have adopted two measures related to the digitization of its processes: one concerns entry to colleges and universities, the other to the conclusion of Higher Education. The Enem is digital for the first time and all federal institutions of higher education will be able to issue digital degrees.
April 06, 2021
Minister of Education Tayseer Al-Nuaimi announced the ministry is conducting studies to create a special curricula for persons with disabilities through a ten year strategy in close partnership with the Supreme Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
April 06, 2021
Mexico's Senate approved a new General Law on Higher Education "whose objective is to train professionals with a high social commitment, who contribute to social, cultural, scientific, technological, humanistic, productive and economic of the country."
April 02, 2021
Australia welcomed its first group of international students since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Several of these students were from mainland China as tensions continue to grow between the two countries.
April 01, 2021
Hong Kong will rename the liberal studies programme taught to older students and require they visit mainland China as part of wide-reaching reforms to the controversial subject. Some teachers express alarm over the changes, noting not all align with suggestions made in a three-year review by a task force.
March 31, 2021
In Guinea, National Autonomous Union of Higher Education and Scientific Research (SNAESURS) calls all workers on higher education institutions in the country to observe a four-day strike.
March 31, 2021
Following the surge in COVID-19 cases in Anambra State of Nigeria, the state governor, Chief Willie Obiano has postponed the reopening of schools in the state by two weeks. He said the decisions had become necessary following the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic that was “sweeping across the world”.
March 31, 2021
Faced with a rapid resurgence of COVID-19 overwhelming the country’s hospitals and driven by a more infectious variant of the virus, South Africa has delayed reopening its schools.