A Fin24 reader facing financial hardship wants to know if it would be possible to get a loan from his provident fund.

Stian de Witt, executive head at employee benefits firm NMG Benefits, shares a few tips on how to keep insurance in your budget when times are tough.

Shares in Woolworths surged more than 4% on Monday after an update showed its blue-chip food business continuing its strong growth trajectory and its fashion, beauty and home business delivering improving sales metrics.

OM sees God working in the lives of a few of the thousands of asylum seekers in Austria.

OM EAST, in partnership with OM Bosnia, is getting ready for their annual Schoolbags Project in north-west Bosnia-Herzegovina this summer.

A Crimean Tatar man shares how he gained courage and learnt vital truths through reading Into the Den of the Infidels, produced by OM EAST.

OM EAST responds to the need for Christian books in the Georgian language.

Building Bridges—a name well suited for the ministry at the integration centre in the Linz area — seeks to connect Austrians, immigrants, Christians and Muslims.

OM EAST shares about a significant event in the Georgian church: OM EAST’s publication of the Right Choices Bible.

Graphic designers, translators and distributors from 130 organisations meet to develop media for minority languages in Eurasia.

This summer nearly 1,000 Roma children in Roma villages throughout Central and Eastern Europe heard the Gospel.

OM Austria has worked with immigrants for 10 years in the "Building Bridges" Team. In 2016, the team will begin working with refugees in Graz.

The OM Austria Building Bridges team gains valuable experience during a short term trip to Turkey.

Thirteen participants from all over the world spent a week getting to know and supporting the refugee work in Linz. Six share about their experiences.

Short-termer Elizabeth from the USA shares some of her experiences working with the Building Bridges Team in Linz, Austria for a month.

A group of Costa Ricans visit a local church in an indigenous region of the country and bring encouragement by serving.

Costa Rica's indigenous people, hidden to the world, have found a new window of hope.

OM Costa Rica brings the Festival of Smiles to the Cabécares and Bribri communities in Talamanca, Limón, to give gifts and God’s love to the children.

An OM Arts student shares how picking up trash led to sharing the gospel in Israel.

Mercy Teams International's Vocational Training Centre, Project Freedom and kindergarten in Cambodia continue to develop amidst changes locally.

When making formal statements, school and district leaders should call out racist patterns and commit to dismantling White supremacy, advise Dorinda J. Carter Andrews and Shaun R. Harper.

The College Board's national experiment with virtual AP exams gets underway this week amid accusations and stern warnings about student cheating.

At first glance, it could seem that teenagers just really, really hate high school. But Yale researchers found deeper student engagement issues.

A new surveys shows that many of this year's high school upperclassmen are behind in their efforts to prepare for post-secondary education.

"The more I look at biblical examples of ministry, the more I see a simple yet profoundly flexible grassroots approach to ministry that compels me to focus on things that really matter," shares Ben.

"The messages teens hear are 'Enjoy life: no commitment, keep your choices open and choose comfort'. Is this the consequence of their own choices or of the generation that raised them? Probably both," shares Ewout.

Republicans have some big questions for the U.S. Department of Education's plans to begin a 50-state strategy to address the unequal distribution of top teachers.

Education Week's Andrew Ujifusa hashes out the details of the education budget with Prince George's County, Md., Schools CEO Kevin Maxwell.

The answer is unclear but "the threat is real," English-language-learner advocacy groups say. The advocates say the Education Department has evaded their questions about the future of the office of English-language acquisition.

President Donald Trump wants to make the biggest cuts in the U.S. Department of Education's budget in about 35 years. Check out the highlights of Trump's plan.

In this Facebook Live discussion, Education Week reporters Alyson Klein and Andrew Ujifusa discuss President Trump's budget, and what it means for public education.

The Center for American Progress has released a set of recommendations for governors in 2019 that includes things such as full-day universal preschool and the study of pre-term births, which can cause learning difficulties.

Babies as young as 12 months are exposed to nearly an hour a day of screen time, despite warnings from pediatricians to avoid digital media exposure for children under a year and a half, according to a new analysis.

A new database offers a state-by-state look at guidance on supporting English-learner students and their families amid the global pandemic.

At Grace E. Metz Middle School in Manassas Va., students use hand-held devices called "clickers" to prepare for state tests. Educators who have used them say clickers help involve every student in a lesson and give teachers immediate feedback about what students are learning, so that instructional s

When they come back to us in the fall, our students’ need for connection, belonging, and real-world experience will be fierce, and we need to adjust our approach based on their needs, writes teacher Ariel Sacks.

All Classroom Q&A posts sharing classroom-management advice (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post.

The strategy of reinforcing good behavior with praise is the least likely to be taught in teacher-prep programs, an analysis finds.

Smaller classes could help bridge the gap between home and school, writes former teacher Marc Vincenti.

Support for in-person teaching is rising, but hybrid approaches to instruction remain the most popular, an EdWeek Research Center survey finds.

Indigenous Peoples Day will be celebrated at Penn State with events on Monday, Oct. 14. The Indigenous Peoples' Student Association and the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance, in partnership with the Office of Educational Equity, Student Affairs, and the Office of the Provost, have coordinated events in recognition and celebration.

A multi-disciplinary group of Penn State Shenango faculty presented the results of a research study about diversity topics being included as part of general education curricula.

The current batch of teacher strikes, including in West Virginia and Oakland, Calif., are not just about pay.

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is partnering with think tanks and advocacy groups across the country in a campaign encouraging public employees to consider dropping their union memberships.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case that held the potential to deal a further blow to public-employee unions after last year's "Janus" decision.

English-language learners are twice as likely to drop out of school as their peers who are either native English speakers or former ELLs who have become fluent in the language.

More than 40 states are considering postsecondary and career readiness in school performance in some way in their Every Student Succeeds Act plans.

Many children whose parents didn't go to college aim for degrees in higher education, but they're far less prepared to go to college than their peers who grew up with college-educated parents, finds a new report.

Philanthropies may be moving away from big new investments with a K-12 academic focus and toward areas like social and emotional learning and wraparound services, Grantmakers in Education finds.