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Meghalaya releases 1st instalment of Post-Matric ST Scholarship; 66,000 students receive payment
Shillong, June 22: The Meghalaya Education Department has announced the release of the first instalment of the Umbrella Scholarship for Scheduled Tribe (ST) Students for the 2024-25 academic year. This initial payment, totalling 20% of the full...

Scholarship Fund Recognizes Stellar Norwalk Students
NORWALK, Conn. — A city-based nonprofit recently awarded 15 scholarships totaling $183,000 to exceptional college and high school students, including 12 recent Norwalk Public Schools graduates. Each year, the Kevin M. Eidt Scholarship Fund awards...

Academicians seek extension of deadline for submitting OBC certificates to DU
Academicians and former members of the Other Backward Classes (OBC) Commission have appealed to the University Grants Commission (UGC) to direct Delhi university to extend the deadline for submitting OBC (Non-Creamy Layer) certificates by 15-20...
Teachers battle the odds to boost literacy at rural Giyani school
Teachers at Vusizi Primary School in Mahlati village, Giyani, Limpopo, face many problems in their quest to improve literacy among their young pupils. They battle overcrowding in the foundation phase classrooms, a shortage of reading material and...

Students, feel free to pivot
UT Austin offers a wide range of academic and career resources designed to support students in planning their futures. From college-specific advising offices to exploration tools like Wayfinder, the University gives students plenty of ways to...

Academic hits out against the US as they argue Iran posed ‘no’ imminent threat
An academic has hit out against the surprise US strikes on nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. Professor of international relations at RMIT University, Dr Aiden Warren, says he’s concerned by the invasion of a sovereign state, which he argues...
Teachers at elite Qld school assaulted my son … twice
A Brisbane father has pulled his two children out of an elite Gold Coast school after he claims his son was physically assaulted by teachers on two separate occasions. The father, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Courier-Mail his son was...
Students take a risk in Public Speaking
Parkes was the destination for nearly ninety students on Monday 27 May to compete in the annual CWA Oxley Group Public Speaking Contest sponsored by Forbes Shire Council, Parkes Shire Council and Oxley Group CWA Branches. The competition catered...

Students spruce up veterans' centre using donations from Asda and Lidl
A team of 10 King’s Trust students completed a 10-day community project to spruce up Veterans in Communities centre. The ACCROSS 35 team, linked to Nelson and Colne College’s Accrington and Rossendale base in Accrington, were on week five of a...

Students urged to think about peace
Year 5 and 6 students from across Wyndham are being encouraged to enter this year’s Rotary Club of Wyndham Harbour Peace Writing Competition. The annual competition enocurages students in years 5 and 6 – or equvilavent home-schooled – to think...

College student drowns in Cauvery river, body found after a day
A day later, the body of a 21-year-old college student who drowned in the Cauvery River at Kambarasampettai in Tiruchy was recovered on Sunday evening, June 22, near Pathirakkudi village in Thanjavur district.The deceased was identified as K Raman...

Students asked to stay home after freezing temps burst school's pipes
"Charnwood Dunlop School has experienced damage as a result of several burst pipes over the weekend due to the cold temperatures. As a result, there is no water available at the school impacting drinking water, the use of toilets and the fire...
Students bring WWII internment history back to life
Sixty-six Grade 5 and 6 students were each assigned the name of someone who was interned in Tatura and who had arrived on the HMT Dunera or the Queen Mary to research. Their task was to develop a poster about that person’s life before war broke...

College football player's barely-believable middle name goes viral
By JAKE FENNER Published: 19:41 EDT, 22 June 2025 | Updated: 19:41 EDT, 22 June 2025 Love and passion for sports runs deep. Sometimes, it runs so deep that parents pass that onto their kids. This is one of those stories, only taken to an absurd...

Bangalore University set to give life and health insurance to students on Jnana Bharati campus
Students on the Jnana Bharathi Campus of Bengaluru University say they do not wish to be burdened with the insurance premium and would prefer that the university itself cover most of the amount, or even make it free of cost. | Photo Credit: MURALI...

N. Korean students celebrate special meal after unpaid farmwork
Students mobilized to farms in North Pyongan province’s Yomju county have returned home after completing rice planting season. Unlike previous years, work team and squad leaders prepared special meals on the final day, allowing students to end...

Texas Delivers Spectacular Blow to Woke Public School Teachers – Slowly We Are Bringing God Back to America
Texas lawmakers are close to scoring a major victory in America’s culture wars by enacting a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms. The bill is currently awaiting Gov. Greg Abbott’s signature and would...

Policing Classrooms
In an increasingly interconnected world, the boundary between national security and academic freedom is becoming more blurred than ever. The recent tightening of US student visa procedures signals not just a policy shift, but a deeper...

Mayuge officials alarmed by rampant absenteeism among teachers, health workers
Mayuge district headquarters Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government officials in Mayuge District have raised serious concerns over widespread absenteeism among teachers and health workers, warning that it is undermining public service...

Govt College University functioning without deans for four years
HYDERABAD - The only public sector university in Sindh’s second-largest city, Government College University Hyderabad (GCUH), has been functioning without deans for over four years, seriously impacting academic, administrative, and research...