Subjects Archives: Education

More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the initial arrests at Columbia University in New York on April 18. Encampments have appeared at 184 campuses worldwide.

Deakin University and the Australian National University (ANU) have indicated they intend to dismantle the student camps. Students across the country are protesting in support of Palestinian people and against their institutions’ ties with Israel.

 The students in short are moved by a pure sense of humanity.

Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.

As a former college teacher, one who witnessed the attacks on those who protested against the War in Vietnam and who studied the repression on campuses during the McCarthy period, I became so appalled at what was being done to our brave and courageous college students that I began to write letters to the leaders of what are, in reality, academic enterprises.

A banner and a name remind student protesters for whom they are fighting.

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is clamoring for the violent suppression of McGill students protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is an odious escalation in the Israel lobby’s bid to suppress democracy at the prestigious university.

Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Administration’s suspension of students engaged in peaceful protest and their arrest by the New York City Police Department.

On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.

The READER Act would have required vendors to rate books on “explicitness” before selling to schools—and blacklisted those that didn’t comply.

Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.

“The institutional target of the attack by the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee–the Center for Security, Race and Rights–is an academic institution engaged in research, public education and advocacy “to address the underlying structural and systemic causes of Islamophobia and xenophobia against people of Arab, African, and South Asian descent.”” – Aslı Ü. Bâli / Laurie Brand

Literacy campaigns targeting African (Black) youth in Africa and across the diaspora have played a crucial role in fostering educational empowerment.

Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.

In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a stunning report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics has declined amongst the world’s students.

The collections of ideas we hold are historically conditioned by the mode of life we exist in.

Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury.

While often perceived as institutions of knowledge and progress, universities actively contribute to the myth that policing and prisons keep us safe.