Students, staff and parents march in cities including Marseille and Lyon, while up to 40,000 expected in Paris * Europe live – latest updates Nearly 90,000 students, staff and parents have taken to the streets in cities across France as protesters blockaded hundreds of high schools in a nationwide day of action against long hours, missing teachers and crumbling classrooms. The French interior ministry said 86,000 people took part in marches in cities including Marseille, Nantes ⁠and Lyon on Tuesday morning, with up to 40,000 more expected to join the largest demonstration, in Paris, later in the day. Continue reading...

French unions have called for a day of cross-sector strikes and demos in November, with unions calling on workers, retirees and young people to take to the streets.

Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans

Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia. Emma, a 28-year-old bartender, had never before taken direct action and was the most nervous of the four plotters from Pull The Plug, one of a growing number of AI-focused campaign groups around the world. Continue reading...

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Thousands of trade unionists, teachers, public sector workers and parents’ groups are expected to join in marches nationwide In Germany, newly elected state lawmakers in Saxony-Anhalt will gather for the first time in the parliament building in the state capital Magdeburg to elect a speaker, with the AfD’s candidate Tobias Rausch expected to win. It would be the first time a far-right party has held such a position in postwar German history, AFP noted. Continue reading...

Bad business decisions have been blamed for the decision to shut entire departments — as academics protest it is students who suffer

Patrick McCabe’s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system

Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question

Lack of investment, overcrowded classrooms, crumbling buildings and poor teacher pay among reasons for protests by school students * Europe live – latest updates As dozens of school pupils sat on top of a pile of wheelie bins blocking a high school entrance in north-eastern Paris, Sophia, 17, was on the frontline of the barricade, when she would normally have been attending Spanish class. “We hope this grows into a massive youth protest movement,” said the final year baccalaureate student at Paris’s Lycée Voltaire, who did not want her real name published. She was on her second day of blocking the school entrance along with hundreds of others, ensuring all lessons were cancelled. “We just want to be listened to by the government. We’d rather stand here doing this than have to learn in poor conditions. It’s the only way to make ourselves heard.” Continue reading...

National Education Union welcomes news that schools will not have to partly fund increase from their own budgets The UK’s biggest education union is claiming a major victory after the government bowed to pressure and agreed to fully fund a forthcoming pay increase for teachers in England in a sudden U-turn on previous policy. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) were due to vote in a ballot for strike action next month over the government’s recent pay offer which provided for a 3.5% increase from this month, with an additional 3% from next September. Continue reading...

The education secretary has committed to fully funding this year's teacher pay rise following lobbying by the National Education Union, Schools Week understands

In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin

The trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

Associations is a vital part of Danish society

The trade union federation and social partner for education in Europe Education International - Europe

In a disrupted job market people are turning to heritage crafts such as bookbinding, metalwork and boatbuilding

Moldovan educators have rejected the government's proposed monthly compensation of €51 (approx. 1,000 MDL), warning that inadequate financial relief could trigger a nationwide general strike. The meas...

Kulturministeren vil sætte en stopper for den stigende brug af engelske ord og beskytte det danske sprog.

Over the past few days, Ghent University has received many enquiries following the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday and the public reactions to it.

Nathan Cofnas says he will ‘probably be fired’ as Ghent begins disciplinary proceedings

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

People from across the town have shared their sadness after the death of a beloved shopkeeper and life-long Harborian.

Privately educated Londoners still dominate decision-making. We now have a chance to reverse that trend.

Brexit didn’t create all the problems young people now face, but renewing close ties with Europe will give us so many opportunities, says student and activist Ceira Sergeant