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Federal ministry approves SSCE exam fee increase to N50,000
Federal education authorities approved a uniform N50,000 registration fee for the senior secondary certificate examination (SSCE) administered by…
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Researchers test drones to measure volcanic gases
German researchers tested two drone-based approaches to measure volcanic gases on the Aeolian island of Vulcano, aiming to map concentrations and…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 29 Starlink satellites
A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base carried 29 Starlink broadband satellites and returned first stage booster B1071 to a planned…
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Japan tests and lands experimental reusable rocket RV-X
Japan carried out the first test flight of its experimental RV-X reusable rocket, which lifted off, hovered, moved horizontally and landed safely in…
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China recovers orbital-class rocket booster using sea-platform net
China successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system when a Long March 10B booster returned vertically and was caught by a net attached…
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Fifteen states sue to stop school mental health grant cuts
Democratic attorneys general in 15 states, including Maine, filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump administration from ending a $1 billion…
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University of Chicago bans devices for first-year law students
The University of Chicago announced a policy that will bar first-year law students from using phones, tablets, and laptops in class starting this…
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Study finds late Neanderthals were genetically healthy
A new analysis of DNA from 27 Neanderthals recovered in Belgium and France shows these late populations were more genetically healthy and connected…
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Philippine bishops uphold constitution during vice president impeachment
Philippine Catholic bishops said they are monitoring the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte and stressed that the Church will not take…
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France activates Orsec extreme heat plan as wildfires spread
France activated an "Orsec extreme heat plan" for departments facing a severe heatwave, initially covering nine western departments on red alert and…
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China recovers orbital-class rocket booster
China on Friday recovered an orbital-class booster from a Long March 10B rocket for the first time, after a launch from the Hainan commercial space…
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Climate change drives deadlier wildfires across Europe
Wildfires across Europe have killed hundreds over the last decade, and a recent blaze in southern Spain killed at least 11 people, one of the…
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California shifts superintendent power to governor-appointed commissioner
Lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom approved a budget trailer bill for the 2026-27 fiscal year that creates a new education commissioner appointed by and…
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UNESCO urges debt swaps to bolster education funding
UNESCO has called on governments and international lenders to scale up debt-for-education swaps and published guidance at the Transforming Education…
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Unesco finds debt payments exceed education spending in 113 countries
Unesco reports that in 2025 more was spent on servicing foreign debt than on education in 113 developing countries, with sub-Saharan Africa spending…
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Chinese geologists warn dam sits on active fault
Chinese state-backed researchers have reported that the Paizhen Fault runs through the site of the massive Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in…
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Menon to fly to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-29
Prashanth Menon, a physician with frontline military, high-altitude rescue and SpaceX medical experience, is scheduled to travel to the International…
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Newsom increases special education funding in California
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget that boosts California special education spending by $2.4 billion, a 43% increase over last year, raising per-pupil…
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Omar Yaghi leaves UC Berkeley to lead AI materials institute
Omar Yaghi, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist who shared last year's chemistry Nobel, has left his faculty post at the University of California, Berkeley…
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County warns LAUSD could be insolvent by November 2027
Los Angeles Unified received a county determination that it faces severe risk of insolvency, with month-end cash balances projected to go negative by…
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NASA X-59 jet reaches supersonic speed
NASA's experimental X-59 research jet, built by Lockheed Martin, exceeded Mach 1 during a June 5 test flight, reaching about 713 mph at 43,400 feet…
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UBEC mobilises over ₦100 billion in matching grants
The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) reported that it has mobilised more than ₦100 billion in previously unaccessed matching grants for…
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Santa Cruz faces worsening drought
Santa Cruz, perched on California's Monterey Bay and known for its surfing, beaches and boardwalk, is highlighted for its vulnerability to drought…
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State officers identify $225 million in school fraud
A coalition of state financial officers and Open the Books analyzed Education Department Office of Inspector General semiannual reports from Oct. 1…
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