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The first fully computer-based sitting of the national secondary school certificate exam, taken by 1.9 million students, was disrupted at 112 centers by outages and connection failures, forcing retakes.
With international enrollment down and nearly half of England’s universities in deficit, the Universities of Mercia, Trent Valley and Fenland will become one institution by 2028, shedding 900 jobs.
In the Paris suburbs, school districts are hiring contract teachers at job fairs after a decade of falling applications for the civil service exam, leaving some pupils without a math teacher for weeks.
More than 60 universities increased fees this year by up to 5 percent, saying buildings and laboratories had decayed under a government-enforced cap. Students have staged the biggest campus protests in a decade.
A 1.2 billion euro program created to recruit researchers unsettled by funding cuts in the United States has drawn 3,800 applications. The first arrivals say the science is funded; the bureaucracy is not.
With purpose-built student rooms renting for 1,250 euros a month and a shortfall of 20,000 beds, a growing share of Dublin’s 100,000 university students live with their parents far outside the city.
A law moving all schools to teaching in Estonian is reshaping a border city of 54,000 whose residents overwhelmingly speak Russian at home. Teachers are the scarcest resource.
