The only German state to charge international students tuition fees across the board is set to drop them after a significant fall in recruitment.
An independent panel has advised the government of Baden-Württemberg to scrap the fees for students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), introduced in 2017 to top up the local education budget and pegged at €1,500 (£1,294) per semester.
The state’s Green and Christian Democratic Union coalition government had in April signalled its intention to abolish the fees, citing a need for skilled workers. The reversal would blow a €30 million hole in the local education…
Delray Beach police said a man is now under arrest for murdering his wife, whose remains were discovered inside three suitcases that were floating in the Intracoastal Waterway nearly two weeks ago.
William Lowe, 78, was arrested Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a dead body.
William Lowe, 78, arrested on Aug. 2, 2023, in connection with the discovery of a woman’s remains in the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach on July 21, 2023.
Police said the suitcases were found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway on July 21. Inside were the remains of a woman, who has…
Education Minister Dustin Duncan has ordered his ministry to review documents pertaining to the youth curriculum, and plans to direct school boards to suspend any upcoming presentations with Planned Parenthood Regina.
He announced the directives Thursday afternoon after being made aware that a Grade 9 student picked up graphic sex ed material left behind by Planned Parenthood after members of the organization presented it to their health class.
“The material in question — as Minister of Education, frankly as a parent — is completely inappropriate to be in a classroom,” Duncan told reporters Thursday.
“We want to make sure that…
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Halifax-area school support staff including Assistive Technology Support Workers, Child and Youth Care Practitioners, Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Student Support Workers, African Nova Scotian School Support Workers, Schools Plus Community Outreach Workers, Educational Program Assistants, Early Childhood Educators and School Library Specialists are ready to strike if the provincial government doesn’t return to the bargaining table with significant wage improvements for all members.
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This weekend, Halifax-area school support staff voted decisively against accepting a tentative agreement negotiated with the government. CUPE Local 5047 represents more than 1800 education workers in the Halifax Regional…
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Anna University has issued the final answer key for the Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test (TANCET) 2023 today, April 11. Candidates can download it from the official website at dancet.annauniv.edu. The final answer key will help candidates calculate their scores. To access the TANCET 2023 final answer key, students will have to log in using their respective email addresses and passwords. To note, the final results are yet to be declared. The Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test was conducted on March 25 and March 26 at several exam centers.
The National Testing Agency has reopened the National…
Another school year is underground in Afghanistan, but missing from classrooms across the country are girls and young women.
It has now been more than 500 days since the Taliban banned female students first from secondary schools, then later from universities in August 2021.
The Taliban have imprisoned the most famous supporter of girls’ education, Matiullah Wesa. For years, Wesa has been promoting the importance of education in southern Afghanistan. Despite international outcry including the UN, EU, and the US, he is still in prison.
At the beginning of their rule, the Taliban cited Islam as the reason for preventing…
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Tuesday is shaping up to be a rough day for Chinese for-profit education stocks — even on a generally ebullient, bad-banking-news-free day in the US market.
The broads S&P 500 index was up a solid 2.1% as of 11:30 am ET, but shares of China’s New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU -0.20%) were off 7%, Gaotu Techedu (GOTU -1.42%) limited slide by 7.6%, and TAL Education (TAL 0.18%) was doing worst of all — down 12.4%.
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According to the market watchers at StreetInsider.com, TAL is to blame for the segment’s sell-off.
According to SI, “local…