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Royal Oak High School students in Detroit suburb walk out to defend immigrants
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (717+ words) Students at Royal Oak High School in suburban Detroit staged a protest against ICE raids Monday morning, as school walkouts continue across Michigan and nationwide against the anti-immigrant campaign being carried out by the Trump administration. Students have shown significant…...
Deepening poverty in the UK under Starmer Labour government says major charity
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (1255+ words) The social inequality charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation summarised two decades of UK poverty data starkly: "Nothing's changed? Everything's changed. It's worse." Its report published last month, "UK Poverty 2026: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK," paints a devastating…...
Australian teenagers oppose police repression, social media ban after beach clash
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1132+ words) On December 17, police attacked around 200 teenagers who had gathered at Mordialloc beach in Melbourne's southeast, triggering a disturbance that spilled into a nearby supermarket." The corporate media and the state Labor government in Victoria seized on the event to call…...
Australian Senate universities report covers up Labor’s onslaught on tertiary education
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (852+ words) When an Australian Senate committee released its final report of a year-long inquiry into university governance this month, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) hailed it as marking "a new dawn for higher education." Yet the report features two noticeable…...
Australia: False claims of “backflip” on job and course cuts at University Technology Sydney
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (812+ words) On Wednesday last week about 150 people, mostly University of Technology Sydney (UTS) staff, rallied outside the campus in central Sydney after the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) called a four-hour stoppage as part of the union's enterprise bargaining with UTS…...
Australia: Concerns over official responses to asbestos in children’s sand products
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1216+ words) Concerns are mounting for the health of thousands of children, educators and their families after children's coloured sand products were recalled because testing revealed that the products contain asbestos. Yet, few schools and day care centres using the sand have…...
Prospective students hit by cuts to Australian university courses
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1076+ words) A far-reaching, pro-business restructuring of universities across the country is having a severe impact on the future of prospective students, with growing numbers of school leavers reporting that the courses they had intended to study are not available. Over the…...
Deadline to make schools safe from crumbling concrete shifted to 2029 by UK Labour government
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1173+ words) The removal of potentially life-threatening reinforced aerated concrete (RAAC) from schools and colleges should be treated as an emergency, but the Department for Education (DfE) in England is not planning to remove it for years. Labour's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson…...
Australian welfare recipients far below the poverty line
3+ mon, 2+ hour ago (735+ words) Australians relying on welfare payments such as JobSeeker, Youth Allowance and the Parenting Payment are being forced to survive far below the poverty line, facing worsening conditions of deprivation, stress and social exclusion. This is the stark reality exposed in…...
Educators and students speak out against pro-business, militarist assault on Australian university jobs
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1035+ words) The Committee for Public Education (CFPE) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) held a public meeting last Sunday opposing mass job cuts at Australian universities and a broader assault on public education, extending to the schools....