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Abaya controversy tests French schools' secular li...
A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the...
Ugandans bury more victims of horrific school mass...
Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of last week's horrific school attack in the remote west of the countr...
Harvard morgue manager charged with selling stolen...
The morgue manager at America's prestigious Harvard Medical School allegedly took dead body parts from his workplace without permi...
Homework will 'never be the same' says ChatGPT fou...
Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionise education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, ChatGPT's founder...
UNICEF 'concerned' by reports of Taliban ban on fo...
The Taliban government may have banned international NGOs from offering education to out-of-school Afghan children, UNICEF said Th...
Millions of Chinese students sit gruelling college...
Millions of Chinese students sit for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zer...
Self-made millionaire sits China's university exam...
Among the millions of fresh-faced high schoolers sitting China's dreaded "gaokao" college entrance exam on Wednesday, Liang Shi st...
Spell it out: Paris' Champs-Elysees hosts mass 'di...
Not to be outdone by US-style spelling bee extravaganzas, Paris's most famous street the Champs-Elysees was transformed into an op...
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 duri...
Florida school curbs access to poem read at Biden...
A Florida school has restricted access for students to the poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration be...
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan acquitted in Swiss r...
A Swiss court on Wednesday acquitted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan on charges of rape and sexual coercion, finding no evidence aga...
Pupil started deadly Guyana dorm fire over confisc...
The weekend school dormitory blaze that killed 19 minors in central Guyana is believed to have been started by a disgruntled pupil...
Defence pleads for Islamic scholar's acquittal at...
Tariq Ramadan's lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted on the third and final day of his...
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 fo...
Jack Ma accepts university teaching post in Hong K...
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has been made an honorary professor of business at a top Hong Kong university, the...
Funny-side up: Comedy booming in French-speaking C...
Home to a prestigious comedy school, the world's largest annual laughs festival and nightclubs that pack in audiences for dozens o...
Teargas and pan bans as Macron faces fresh pension...
French police fired teargas Thursday in a village in southern France to keep angry protesters away from President Emmanuel Macron,...
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 m...
Teens lured to Marseille become 'slaves' of its dr...
Marseille's drug lords have a problem. Last year 32 of their foot soldiers were shot dead in the crime-plagued French Mediterranea...
Attacker kills four children with hatchet at Brazi...
A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before t...
US parents' dilemma: how to discuss school shootin...
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 happen...
Nashville school shooter hid seven firearms in hou...
The 28-year-old who shot dead six people at an elementary school in Nashville bought and concealed multiple weapons in the family...
Nashville police seek motive after school shooter...
Nashville police worked Tuesday to pin down a motive behind a murderous rampage that saw three elementary school pupils and three...
Founder of Afghan girls' school project arrested i...
The founder of a project that campaigned for girls' education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, hi...
Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 staff at Nashvi...
A heavily-armed 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville Monday before...
Female shooter kills 3 children, 3 adults at Nashv...
A 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday before...
Florida set to expand 'Don't Say Gay' law to all s...
Florida is expected to ban the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in all school grades, expanding a controversial...
Russia's Asia pivot spurs boom in Chinese classes
Every Sunday, Chinese tutor Kirill Burobin begins work in the early morning and is kept busy until midnight.
Rap battle: young Tunisians fight stigma with the...
"We're sick of being seen as thugs," said Mohamed Ali Ayari, a rapper from a down-at-heel Tunis district, where jobless youth are...
Hundreds of thousands strike in UK over pay
Teachers, London Underground train drivers and civil servants joined striking doctors Wednesday in a mass stoppage as Britain's fi...
Dawn school trial for drowsy teens draws outcry in...
Every morning in a city in Indonesia's far east, sleepy teenagers can be seen trudging zombie-like through the streets on their re...
Taliban free Afghan educator who protested women's...
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have freed a detained academic, his aide told AFP on Monday, months after he used a television a...