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States, local governments, scholars support student loan forgiveness

"The plan will significantly impact borrowers thrown into financial distress by COVID-19."

Fortune

Feds propose new rules aimed at helping borrowers repay student loans

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday unveiled proposed new regulations that officials said would make it easier to afford student loans payments.

Tribune News Service

Teacher strikes: Pay talks with Government amid walkout threat ‘largely unsatisfactory’, say unions

Three education unions have ballots on industrial action which close this week

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Biden's argument for student loan forgiveness is borrowers suffered financially during the pandemic. It's more complicated than that

The Biden administration is defending its widespread debt relief by saying that the pandemic “profoundly disrupted” the economy. New research suggests it’s not that simple.

Fortune

Talks must deal with current year’s pay rise, says teaching union chief

Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU, said only an hour had been set aside for Monday’s talks with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

The Independent UK

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US makes its case for legality of Biden student debt program

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US makes its case for legality of Biden student debt program

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to uphold the president’s student loan forgiveness plan Wednesday in the face of several challenges to a program that could forgive up to $20,000 in debt for millions of borrowers.

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US makes its case for legality of Biden student debt program - Roll Call

The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to uphold the president’s student loan forgiveness plan Wednesday.

Roll Call

DeSantis to scrutinize higher ed programs for diversity, critical-race theory activities

As Gov. Ron DeSantis targets “trendy ideology” in higher education, his administration is asking state colleges and universities for information about resources they are putting into activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory.

Miami Herald

Nottinghamshire schools to be 'transformed' thanks to Government funding

The announcement comes as the Department for Education’s annual report found 'there is a risk of collapse of one or more blocks in some schools'

Nottingham Post

PM orders probe of teacher’s Prem claims

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the education minister would investigate claims that a public school teacher told students that the former Privy Council president and prime minister Prem Tinsulanonda was a dictator.

Bangkok Post

POINT: Education’s future depends on parent power

If there’s one thing the last three years have taught American parents, it’s that they need to take control of their children’s education.

Tribune News Service

Australia has a plan to fix its school teacher shortage. Will it work?

All year, we have heard reports of a “crisis” in Australian schools, thanks to a shortage of teachers around the country. Federal education department modelling shows there will be a high school teacher shortfall of about 4,000 by 2025.

The Conversation

Student loan forgiveness “highly unlikely” as Supreme Court reviews case, says expert

December 1st 2022, the federal Supreme Court rejected President Biden’s immediate request to revive his student debt relief plan. The court will review oral arguments in February 2023 and then determine whether the leading lawsuit against the program has merit.

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Daily Mirror

Tory Education Secretary Gillian Keegan does not believe white privilege exists

Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, said 'I don't, for me, think that there is a privilege to being white on its own' adding 'I don't think it's a fact' and 'there's a lot of debate'

The Guardian - UK

Decision to approve Cumbria coalmine is ‘bad policy, bad politics’ and ‘environmental vandalism’, says Labour – as it happened

Lisa Nandy calls decision ‘absurd’ and says new coal will be used for steel and not electricity generation

ABC News

NT education advocates welcome end of effective enrolment funding school model, call for faster transition to new model

A review has found the NT's effective enrolment policy — which funded schools based on attendance rather than enrolment — was not meeting students' need, but the switch to a new system could take years.

Daily Mirror

Tories shelve 'unworkable' schools shake-up in yet another Rishi Sunak U-turn

Critics welcomed the decision to scrap the bill but said it was a symptom of the chaos of the last 12 months - which has seen FIVE different Education Secretaries in charge

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The Independent UK

Schools Bill dropped as Government prioritises tackling economic storm

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan insisted the Government remained committed to some of the elements within the doomed legislation.

WEKU

Legal losses keep coming for Biden's student loan relief plan

The 5th Circuit Court rejected a Education Department appeal on Wednesday, the latest setback in several parallel lawsuits. The administration is expected to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in.

Roll Call

Transgender ban, Biden loan program top House GOP’s education agenda

Republicans campaigned in the midterm election on undoing a student loan forgiveness program and banning transgender athletes.

Bangkok Post

'Thainess' needs rethink

The Education Ministry has faced a torrent of criticism for its initiative to single out history as an individual subject from the social cluster in school curricula.

Daily Record

West Dunbartonshire teachers are set to strike again at the start of next year

The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) has announced that there will be 16 continuous days of strike action in January and February, spread throughout every council in the nation.

AAP

Free TAFE, VET courses for WA students

The federal government has partnered with Western Australia's Labor government for a $112 million deal to fund free TAFE and vocational education courses.

Daily Mirror

Tories 'abandoning families' as 1,600 children's centres close in a decade

Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the centres were a “lifeline” for families - and warned more closures were sure to follow after the Tories “crashed the economy”

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