For Rohingya children, school’s out permanently – not just for summer
Young people in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, are coping with continuous boredom as their peers across the
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SRA making exam easier to help BAME students
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced that it is considering dropping a written skills test for new solicitors because black, asian and ethnic
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Shipped back: Why British born kids were sent to Nigeria
“Shipped back” is term used when some parents decide to send their children back to their native countries for schooling,
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It’s a mystery: Parents in the dark about the university Clearing process, says study
With less than a week to go before A-level results are released, more than half of parents – including those
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Ten-year-old girls in Kenya put on contraceptives
Some parents in Kenya are putting children as young as 10 on contraceptives in an attempt to keep them in
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Stopping child marriage with solar lanterns
It’s estimated that more than 100 million girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next decade.
Read moreLuton BAME community encouraged to go for leadership roles in education
Bedfordshire teachers gathered in Luton for an inspiring ‘BAME into Leadership’ networking event. More than 80 people attended the launch
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Oxfordshire parents’ taking Church Of England to court over Christian assemblies
A couple are taking the Church of England to court over Christian school assemblies which they say are “indoctrinating” their
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Meet the homeless New York teen who graduated high school
Life on the street puts unimaginable miseries and limits on the upward mobility of many teenagers in America, but homeless
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Network for BME women in digital health launched at Summer Schools
A new network to support and encourage women of black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds in digital health roles has
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Why America lost so many of its black teachers
Before 1964 nearly half of college-educated African-Americans in the South were teachers. JULY MARKS the 55th anniversary of the Civil
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Black academics bear brunt of university work on race equality
Earlier this year, Maxine Thomas-Asante asked her university if she could pause her work supporting black, Asian and minority ethnic
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Young boy’s gift of Christian books to classmates leads to massive fines for parents
A six-year-old boy who took Christian booklets to school as gifts for classmates landed his parents in trouble with authorities in Azerbaijan.
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Girl bullied at private school for being ‘too black’ wants to help others
Three years ago, Njabulo Zulu was bullied by fellow learners at a private school because she was “black like a
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Ethiopian woman gives birth and sits exams 30 minutes later
A woman in Ethiopia has taken her exams in a hospital bed just 30 minutes after giving birth. Almaz Derese,
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