Schools

The power of AI in the classroom: Why ChatGPT is a game changer

Integrating ChatGPT into schools will further the power of education, give students a more personalised approach to learning and help teachers innovate.

Ugandan schools raise $10,000 for earthquake victims in Türkiye

Student leader says donation from the African nation shows their expression of solidarity with the Turkish people who had contributed for the construction of mosques and schools in their communities.

YPG/PKK terror group conscripted hundreds of child soldiers in Syria: UN

The UN's annual Children and Armed Conflict report showed that the US-backed YPG terrorist group and its affiliates in Syria have recruited 221 minors, killed dozens others and even seized schools for military use from January to December 2021.

China passes law to limit pressure on children from homework

China has also launched a crackdown on private tutoring companies, ordering them to go non-profit.

Classes resume in Afghanistan, but girls excluded from secondary school

Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said arrangements were being made to reopen girls' secondary schools without giving a date as students returned to primary schools.

Canada Day celebrations muted as country reckons with dark colonial past

The celebrations were cancelled after remains of almost 1,000 children were discovered at former Indigenous schools, sparking a reckoning with the country's colonial past.

Myanmar teachers won't go back to class as junta reopens schools

The military has insisted schools open on Tuesday after a year's absence due to Covid-19 and the coup in February, but many educators have already decided they won't return to the job they love.

Congress approves $900B Covid-19 relief bill, sending to Trump

The aid package aims to deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and resources to vaccinate a nation confronting a frightening surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths.

Will school closures have a long-term impact on children?

Academic, social and mental health consequences are worrying, while e-learning has likely exacerbated inequality. But shutdown might have also brought about increased independence and family benefits for children too.

Schools in Turkey to reopen as planned but remotely

A gradual transition to in-person education will begin on September 21 and will depend on how responsibly families and students behave amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Greece deprives children of education by closing minority schools: Turkey

Shuttering minority schools is part of Greece's “assimilation and oppression” policy that it continues to follow for decades against the Turkish minority in Western Thrace, Turkey's foreign ministry said.

US once again registers more than 70,000 new Covid-19 cases

Country with most Covid-19 cases in the world remains divided on whether to implement national mask mandate or reopen schools as it witnesses an average of about 60,000 new infections a day in July.