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UC academic council orders review of SAT and course requirements
The University of California Academic Council directed the system admissions board to review whether to reinstate SAT or ACT testing and to…
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Infanta mayor criticizes slow DepEd classroom construction
Infanta mayor Arnel Ruanto criticized the slow roll-out of the Department of Education classroom construction program, saying no new classrooms have…
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Texas trims community college funding incentives
Three years after Texas overhauled community college funding to reward completions, colleges delivered higher graduation and certificate numbers but…
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Defaulted borrowers surge after U.S. student loan pause ends
An Associated Press analysis found more than 4.2 million additional borrowers entered student loan default between April 2025 and March 2026 after…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Congress ends Grad Plus and caps federal graduate student loans
Congress replaced the uncapped Grad Plus program with fixed annual and lifetime limits on federal graduate loans effective July 1, setting annual…
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Marcos launches expanded school feeding program for young learners
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led the national kickoff of the Department of Education's School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) and a milk feeding…
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Appeals court blocks Florida Stop WOKE classroom law
An 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that Florida's 2022 Individual Freedom Act, known as the Stop WOKE law, crosses First Amendment…
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IIM Bangalore to open campus in Indonesia
During a joint statement in Indonesia, prime minister narendra modi announced that IIM Bangalore will open its first international campus in the…
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Federal loans cut for degree programs with poor earnings
A federal policy that took effect July 1 prevents students from using federal loans for degree programs whose graduates earn less than the average…
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South Africa completes pit toilet eradication for schools
The Department of Basic Education announced completion of all pit toilet eradication projects identified in the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for…
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UAE revokes licence of Horizon University College
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) announced that it has revoked the institutional licence and programme accreditation…
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CSA review finds 25 million children out of school
The Civil Services Academy review says Pakistan has between 25.1 million and 26 million out-of-school children because of weak execution, fragmented…
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Government expands free school breakfast clubs
More than 1,000 extra schools will offer free breakfast clubs in the new school year, with about 1,400 more joining from September and total…
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