Hong Kong: Teachers exit under shadow of security law, schools scramble to fill gaps
SARA CHENG, of Reuters, reports from Hong Kong on warning over a “brain drain” of teachers…
School’s out for good? Lebanese teachers flee as financial crisis builds
Beirut, LebanonReuters Sorbonne-educated Chryssoula Fayad spent nearly two decades teaching history and geography at Lebanon’s elite French schools, ultimately heading departments. Now she is a substitute teacher in Paris, part of an exodus from an education system on its knees. Fayad left behind her home and life savings in August 2020, at 50 years old. […]
More than 125,000 Myanmar teachers suspended for opposing coup
Reuters More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers’ Federation said. The suspensions have come days before the start of a new school year, which some teachers and parents are […]
Most British teachers say they lack training on climate change – poll
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Nearly three quarters of British teachers say they have not had enough training to educate students about climate change, the implications of global warming and how best to confront them, a poll showed on Tuesday. Although 90 per cent of teachers thought climate change education should be compulsory, 41 per cent […]
Belarus jails two opposition leaders; teachers head rally of thousands
Minsk, BelarusReuters Belarus jailed two opposition leaders for 10 days on Tuesday as the government pursued a crackdown on the few figures still at large, while schoolteachers led a new protest of thousands against President Alexander Lukashenko. Despite most major opposition figures being in jail or exile, Lukashenko has so far failed to put down […]
Franciscan monk from rural Kenya wins $US1 million prize for teachers
A Franciscan monk from rural Kenya who gives away 80 per cent of his income to community projects has been crowned the world’s best teacher and awarded a $US1 million prize. Peter Tabichi. PICTURE: Courtesy of the Varkey Foundation. Peter Tabichi, 36, teaches maths and physics at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in Pwani […]
Uzbek teachers, nurses ‘forced’ to clean streets and harvest wheat
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nurses and teachers in Uzbekistan are being forced by officials to clean streets, plant trees and harvest wheat or face the sack, fines or pay cuts, despite a government drive to end state-imposed work, labour rights groups said on Thursday. Under international pressure, including boycotts by fashion giants, the Central Asian country […]
In northern Kenya, al-Shabaab militants target Christian teachers
RNS After the militant group al-Shabaab killed three of his colleagues in a recent attack on Christian schoolteachers here, Jared Nyanchong’i packed his few belongings and boarded a bus to the capital, Nairobi. “These people call us black Satan, devil and kafir,” said Nyanchong’i, 40, a father of three. “The life of teachers is very important. […]
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – BUMBLING ALONG, MOUTHING FIRE OR WALKING GENTLY, WORKING WISDOM
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at James, chapter three, with an examination of a passage looking at the dangers of an unbridled tongue…
OPEN BOOK: PROVERBS FOR A NEW COVENANT – LET THERE NOT BE…!
BRUCE C WEARNE starts his look at the Epistle of James chapter three with an examination of why he says not many should be “teachers”…