https://sagire.online/topic/education/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:25:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/9c85c7c4/https://sagire.online/wire/9c85c7c4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:24:00 -0300Some 40,000 students were on strike at 57 schools across Denmark, including 12,000 to 13,000 at the protest in Copenhagen, according to organizers. Under the banner “Enough is Enough,” 11 high school and university student associations marched from Copenhagen’s City Hall Square to parliament over the proposed cuts to free up funds for defense spending. In a draft budget bill, Denmark’s center-left government plans to abolish the student grant (SU) for students who live with their parents and whose parents’ total annual income exceeds 700,000 Danish kroner (US$104,000). According to the Higher Education Ministry, around 14,000 students are expected to lose their grant, and some 8,000 would see it reduced. Student protests that started in France have spread in recent weeks to other European countries.DenmarkEducationProtestsDefenseEurope https://sagire.online/wire/d9d39192/https://sagire.online/wire/d9d39192/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300The British government is facing a legal challenge over its recommendation for schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, in a case filed on Monday by the Good Law Project. Seven of the definition’s 11 illustrations include references to Israel. The group’s executive director, Jo Maugham, said rules that conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism could be among the drivers of antisemitism. British Jewish group Na’amod said that “Jewish pupils should be safe at school, and antisemitism has to be taken seriously. The IHRA definition doesn’t do that job”.United KingdomAntisemitismHuman rightsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/d52d9c48/https://sagire.online/wire/d52d9c48/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300The Palestinian ministry said, according to TRT World, that Israeli attacks killed 22 students and education workers in Gaza in October. Damage to schools, fuel shortages and restrictions on supplies and travel are further disrupting education across the enclave, with officials warning that the system faces collapse.GazaPalestineIsraelEducation https://sagire.online/wire/7ee8f813/https://sagire.online/wire/7ee8f813/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:22:00 -0300French high school students resumed school blockades on Monday, and the country is bracing for more protests. President Emmanuel Macron called for classes to resume after the government announced new measures to address the education crisis, which student groups found insufficient. The head of a student union had said on Sunday that the blockades would restart on Monday.FranceProtestsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/ea8ee627/https://sagire.online/wire/ea8ee627/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:22:00 -0300French students blocked some high schools on Monday, November 2, as they returned from the autumn holidays, determined to reinvigorate the protest movement despite government concessions during the break. Turnout for the blockades is uncertain, and the students vow to “keep up pressure”.FranceProtestsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/db7ac5f6/https://sagire.online/wire/db7ac5f6/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:22:00 -0300France’s Interior Ministry counted 779 arrests on Saturday, “without major incident in the second part of the evening”, according to RFI. Pierre Sourzat, head of the “Lyceens!” student group, said that some high schools will be blockaded from Monday, November 2, 2026, when students return from a two-week holiday, according to The Hindu. The blockade campaign will restart on Monday, he said, adding that the government’s proposals did not go far enough.FranceProtestsEducationEurope https://sagire.online/wire/76201ec6/https://sagire.online/wire/76201ec6/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:21:00 -0300Hundreds of thousands of protesters, most of them young, returned to the streets across France on Saturday in a third consecutive weekend of demonstrations over living costs and education, according to the Associated Press (AP). France’s government estimated 320,000 protesters nationwide on Saturday, fewer than in previous protests, and about 70,000 police and gendarmes were deployed, with Paris marches rerouted to the edge of the capital.FranceEuropeProtestsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/f0c28256/https://sagire.online/wire/f0c28256/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:22:00 -0300More than 160,000 people are expected to join demonstrations across Germany on Saturday, organizers say, in a youth-led movement inspired by protests elsewhere in Europe to demand better education and lower living costs. The rallies, organized by the campaign group Gen Z regelt, are planned in 34 cities including Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. The group says it opposes compulsory military service and wants greater investment in education.GermanyEuropeProtestsMilitary serviceEducation https://sagire.online/wire/f7b01166/https://sagire.online/wire/f7b01166/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:23:00 -0300The Gen Z Regelt collective has called protests in German cities for October 31, with more than 150,000 people reportedly registered, according to TRT World. The group demands more education funding, stronger climate action and a fairer distribution of social costs, and in its demands to Chancellor Merz and his coalition government asks for “money for schools instead of cuts” and “an affordable life.”GermanyMilitary serviceProtestsEducationEurope https://sagire.online/wire/7c9ad798/https://sagire.online/wire/7c9ad798/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:22:00 -0300About eight million children are outside the education system in Sudan, and public schooling is at risk of collapse, the Sudanese Teachers’ Committee said, according to AllAfrica. The teachers’ strike in Khartoum state entered its second consecutive day, with strong turnout in Karari, Bahri and East Nile, according to a committee statement issued on Tuesday.SudanEducationConflict https://sagire.online/wire/ee0b0382/https://sagire.online/wire/ee0b0382/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:23:00 -0300New rules announced earlier in October by Syria's education ministry restrict certain courses at the two new defense and security colleges exclusively to men, and almost all of them at the security university, according to DW. The colleges are the National University of Defense Sciences and the Syrian University for Security Sciences. The decision has caused controversy inside and outside the country.SyriaEducationHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/db8fd6fa/https://sagire.online/wire/db8fd6fa/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 14:22:00 -0300The United States Department of Defense designated Confucius Institutes, Chinese-funded cultural centers at universities, as a threat to national security, according to Al Jazeera. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 80 new “propaganda cells” had appeared across 30 universities under different names and charters with “the same mission: to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students,” and that the Pentagon had systematically dismantled every one of these organizations over the past two months.United StatesChinaEducationDefense https://sagire.online/wire/722bfbab/https://sagire.online/wire/722bfbab/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:23:00 -0300The US Defense Department designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday. According to him, “80 new propaganda cells across 30 universities had popped up using different names and different charters, but with the same mission: to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students”. Hegseth said the department had “systematically dismantled every single one of these organizations” over the past two months, according to the Guardian.United StatesChinaEducationDefense https://sagire.online/wire/eeabd22b/https://sagire.online/wire/eeabd22b/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300Azerbaijan has barred 31 Turkish citizens from entering the country over social media remarks that authorities allege threatened the country’s national security and advocated the forcible overthrow of the government in Baku, according to the Middle East Eye. The decision deepens the dispute that began last month, when Azerbaijan banned headscarves in primary and high schools. The move sparked protests in Turkey and turned into a diplomatic crisis, according to the outlet.AzerbaijanTurkeyHuman rightsDiplomacyEducation https://sagire.online/wire/77d8cf9f/https://sagire.online/wire/77d8cf9f/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:23:00 -0300The terms of reference for a review commissioned by the British government into antisemitism in schools, seen by the Middle East Eye, say the work will use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which has been widely criticised for allegedly being used to target criticism of Israel. According to widely reported accounts, teachers could be told not to wear pro-Palestine badges, including the watermelon symbol, although the report is not set to advise a blanket ban on badges, the Middle East Eye reported.United KingdomAntisemitismEducationHuman rights