Education

The world is long overdue for the abandonment of the unstated but powerful hegemony that exists around the great imperial languages of centuries past.

For better and for worse.

Plus: The United States is having a massive teacher shortage.

Tafsir Siyaposh has spent the past year pressing the Taliban on women’s rights by besting them at their own theological jousts on live television.

A quiet academic becomes a lightning rod in France’s culture wars.

And how they’re being shaped by international politics.

With protesters crushed and memorials removed, there’s no room for campus dissent.

The sudden about-face could undercut the Taliban’s hopes for international recognition.

A gender and generational divide influences how professors teach about history-making events.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has failed to fulfill demands for reform—and may soon face the consequences.

German universities are bowing to China on censorship. That could finally change under the new government.

Governments and donors must stop focusing solely on skills development and entrepreneurship—or risk more youth migration, unrest, and terrorism.

The Taliban say modern education is of no use as the country heads toward economic meltdown and starvation.

The school’s mission is to find the most talented Iranians willing to serve the state—and give them access to power.

With schools shut for over a year, limited access to technology is exacerbating the education gap, leaving Indigenous communities behind.

Around 90 percent of Haitians speak only Haitian Creole. So why is school mostly conducted in French?

Institutions like the State Department need to scrap credentialism.

Nearly half of international relations scholars spent more time in class on race and racial justice—but with key demographic differences.