Education

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Australia’s opposition Coalition is facing growing questions over the financial credibility of its newly announced immigration policy after senior MPs acknowledged that the plan has not yet undergone a full costing by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office. Coalition leader Angus Taylor has repeatedly defended the package as “budget neutral” and said the party had worked closely with the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online France has temporarily suspended the use of stun grenades by police at high-school demonstrations after a 15-year-old protester suffered a devastating hand injury during a demonstration in the northern city of Lens, intensifying an already heated national debate over police tactics and the treatment of young protesters. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced the decision on Wednesday, saying the...

Published: 07 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. More than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents took to the streets across France on Tuesday in the largest nationwide demonstration yet over deteriorating conditions in secondary schools, as clashes between protesters and riot police intensified in several cities. The demonstrations, held in Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux and other locations, were largely peaceful, but a number of marches...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. The Conservative party has placed education and cultural issues at the centre of its latest political messaging, with shadow education secretary Laura Trott declaring that a future Conservative government would seek to keep political activism out of classrooms. Her remarks came during the party’s annual conference, where the Conservatives are attempting to sharpen their political identity and reconnect...

Published: 06 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. France is facing a major day of student mobilisation as thousands of high-school and university students take to the streets across the country, joined by teachers, trade unionists, public-sector workers and parents’ organisations demanding improvements to education and learning conditions. The nationwide demonstrations, which have been described as a major escalation of the student movement, are expected to...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said his position as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales does not depend on the outcome of next week’s Holborn and St Pancras by-election, where he is seeking to win the parliamentary seat previously held by former prime minister Keir Starmer. Polanski described the contest as being extremely close,...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to oversee an investigation into allegations of a sexual assault involving multiple men at a Cornell University fraternity house in 2024, saying recent developments had weakened her confidence in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case. The decision has brought renewed...

Published: 02 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online France is facing a growing wave of student unrest after around 400 schools were closed on Friday as protests over deteriorating education conditions escalated into violent confrontations in several cities. What began as demonstrations led largely by high school students has rapidly spread across the country, bringing clashes with police, school closures, property damage and thousands of detentions....

Published: 01 October 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Democratic senators have called for detailed information from the Trump administration about the condition of the US childcare system, arguing that a combination of funding changes, regulatory revisions and pressures on providers could leave families facing higher costs and fewer affordable childcare places. The request, led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and joined by six other Democratic senators,...

Published: 30 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Students at universities across the UK are facing growing disruption as staff strikes, job cuts, course closures and financial restructuring spread through higher education. At Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham, industrial action is threatening to remove weeks of teaching from the academic year, leaving students caught between demands for greater job security among university staff and the financial pressures...