Education

Published: 30 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online More than 400 people, most of them teenagers, were detained across France on Tuesday as a growing wave of student protests over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and exhausting school schedules escalated into clashes with police. The demonstrations, which began in Paris the previous week, spread to cities and towns across the country, bringing renewed attention to pressures facing...

Published: 29 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Prosecutors in New York have reopened an investigation into allegations of a sexual assault involving a Cornell University student at a fraternity house, following renewed public scrutiny over how the case was initially handled and the consequences faced by members of the fraternity who were identified in connection with the allegations. The investigation concerns an October 2024 incident...

Published: 28 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online For 13-year-old Muneer Farie, school once represented a path towards a different future. Every morning, he attended classes in his village in Yemen’s Taiz governorate, while afternoons were spent helping his father feed the family’s livestock. The boy, from a farming family, dreamed of becoming the first teacher among his relatives. That routine has now disappeared. Renewed fighting...

Published: 26 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Labour must work to reunite voters across the centre-left and wider progressive political spectrum if it is to make the most of divisions among parties on the right, the party’s deputy leader Lucy Powell has said, as the party prepares for its annual conference in Liverpool. Powell argued that Labour now has an opportunity to rebuild its political...

Published: 25 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Africa must make a major investment in its universities and rethink the way higher education prepares students for employment, research and public service if the continent is to fully benefit from its rapidly growing young population, public health expert Dr John Nkengasong has said. Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist and veteran public health policymaker, argues that universities across Africa...

Published: 21 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Labour’s flagship foundation apprenticeship programme has come under renewed scrutiny after official figures showed that only 160 young people had started the scheme during its first eight months. The figures have prompted warnings that the government’s wider ambition to tackle youth unemployment and expand access to skilled work could face significant challenges unless the route into apprenticeships is...

Published: 21 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Headteachers across England are raising fresh concerns about the impact of Ofsted’s revised inspection system, with the National Association of Head Teachers saying the new approach is leaving some school leaders feeling overwhelmed, anxious and under intense pressure. The concerns come a year after Ofsted introduced its redesigned inspection framework, which replaced the previous single headline judgement system...

Published: 19 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Europe’s long-established reputation for strong public education is facing renewed scrutiny after the latest Programme for International Student Assessment, or Pisa, results showed significant declines across several major education systems. France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland all recorded weaker performances, while Sweden also experienced substantial falls. The United Kingdom, by contrast, recorded comparatively stronger results in the latest...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining technological and social debates of the 2020s, but following that debate can sometimes feel like moving between two extremes. One moment, AI companies are announcing enormous investments, new products and rapidly expanding computing infrastructure. The next, researchers, technology workers and critics are warning that increasingly powerful systems could create serious...

Published: 17 September 2026. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Children receiving treatment in English hospitals are facing a serious shortage of specialist play support, with new figures indicating that the number of health play professionals available to help young patients cope with illness and medical procedures remains far below recommended levels. The findings have renewed concern about how hospitals support children emotionally as well as clinically. Health...