Lebanon’s public schools reopen amid war and displacement
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters In the quiet seaside town of Amchit, 45 minutes north of Beirut, public schools are finally in session again, alongside tens of thousands of internally displaced people who have made some of them a makeshift shelter. As the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah escalated in September, hundreds of schools in Lebanon were […]
Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: when will normality return?
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince – or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralysed trade routes and pushed the Caribbean country to its highest levels of hunger on record. The 30-year-old mother of three now sells food […]
In the US, new law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US AP Louisiana has become the first US state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor. The legislation that Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized […]
Back to class – or shelters?: Next school year snags Israel’s Lebanon strategy
DAN WILLIAMS and EMILY ROSE, of Reuters, report from northern Israel…
Extreme heat shuts schools for millions, widening learning gaps worldwide
Reuters Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 43 degrees Celsius in the Bangladesh capital. “There is no real education in schools in this punishing heat,” she said. “Teachers can’t teach, students can’t concentrate. Rather, our lives are at risk.” Sheikh Tamim […]
Philippines’ ‘dangerous’ heat prompts shift to online classes, power crunch
Manila, The Philippines Reuters The Philippines has cancelled in-person public school classes for the next two days and said the power grid on its main island could be strained as the country grapples with a heatwave that is also affecting other parts of South-East Asia. The state weather agency on Monday forecast temperatures in the […]
Bangladesh reopens schools amid scorching heatwave
Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius in the days ahead, according to the weather department. Schools that had closed last week reopened on what is the first day of the week in Bangladesh, […]
Gaza children yearn for their school days before conflict
Gaza Reuters Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war erupted over six months ago. “We would go out during recess. We would go to the classroom and walk around. The principle would come to the […]
“Catastrophic”: Kharkiv’s civilians under fire as Ukraine faces air defence shortage
TOM BALMFORTH, of Reuters, reports…
Essay: Nigerian bandits strategically target school children for kidnappings – here’s why
OLUWOLE OJEWALE, regional coordinator for the Institute for Security Studies, explains why school children are all too often targets for kidnappers in Nigeria…