By Emily Kowal and Nigel Gladstone
In 2024, St George Christian School in south-west Sydney took a gamble. Caroline Lee, the head of its senior school, noticed her students were overly stressed and were submitting an increasing number of requests for disability provisions due to anxiety. The school took a "pretty scary leap", she admits, and overhauled its assessment structure.
By Joe Snell
Atone Sliwo Ashur's desire to build a fence around an elevated hilltop in Simmele, a town in northern Iraq's Dohuk district, seems innocent at first glance -- just a few hundred meters of metal posts and barbed wire coiled around a mound of dirt.
North Iraq -- Alqosh-based Syriac language teacher Athra Kado has released a new educational book, designed for teaching preschoolers the Assyrian language. Designed in a simple style that accommodates young children's skills, the book encourages early learning and the development of cultural identity from their first years of school.
By Ablahad Hana Saka
We declare, in clear and unambiguous terms, our firm rejection of the project to establish new government complexes within the center of the Bartella subdistrict. We caution against actions being carried out under administrative or service-related justifications that, in reality, constitute deliberate attempts to alter the demographic structure of the city and undermine the legal and historical...
After the security authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) arrested the suspect held responsible for attacking the Assyrian cemetery in Shaqlawa, Arba'ilo (Erbil), and following his admission that he committed the act "under the influence of alcohol," Joseph Sliwa, President of the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (Huyodo d'Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA), dismissed both the arrest and confession...
The Assyrian people in Iraq mourns Colonel Zaid Adel Subaih Jirjis, a police official who was killed on Friday, 19 December, as a result of a shooting in Kerkheslokh (Kirkuk), Iraq, while carrying out his duties.