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Kuching school attack: Sarawak minister urges accountability and compassion

Police are investigating a 16-year-old student for allegedly injuring a teacher at a private school in Kuching with an axe and carrying firecrackers.

Devastated families mourn children killed by Pakistan school roof collapse

A man carries an injured boy after a school roof collapse in Peshawar, Pakistan, on October 15, 2026. REUTERS

French student protesters vow to keep up their fight after scoring first win

A protester holds a placard in the colours of the French flag reading \"To arms, citizens! Form your battalions! Let's march\", during a demonstration by French high school and university students in Paris as part of a nationwide day of protests and blockades supported by teachers and school parents to demand better school conditions in France, October 8, 2026. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor

Wealthy French quit failing state schools squeezed by pensions and austerity

FILE PHOTO: View of the damaged entrance doors of the Lycee Vauquelin high school with bicycles and garbage bins set on fire by protesters in Paris as high school students continue protests in France voicing anger over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings, which students blame on years of underinvestment, continue, France, October 5, 2026. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

Malaysia removes bumiputera equity requirement for some private education institutions

Malaysia’s education ministry said it is dropping the 30 per cent bumiputera equity threshold to align ownership rules with the sector’s needs.

How food, people-to-people ties and an Indian international school helped Siglap get a park

Yarrow Park was carved from a cluster of five basketball courts which sat on premises previously leased by the Global Indian International School in Cheviot Hill.

Crypto boss eyes second act for Malaysia’s Forest City after closure of Network School

A Malaysian crypto investor is weighing a plan to revive the tech campus left vacant by the abrupt collapse of Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School.

Thousands of teachers march in Lisbon over pay, careers

HSBC reviews $48,000-per-child school fee perk for HK bankers to cut costs: Sources

Hundreds of staff have access to the perk, which costs tens of millions of dollars annually.

Ditching rote learning: India’s affluent parents send kids to international schools

Ms Neha Aggarwal (in yellow) at an open house organised by Queen Elizabeth's School in Gurugram, India.

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