Over the past few years, a growing number of America’s parentless children have found homes. In 2008 there were 463,000 children in foster care, a system where the government places orphans and children with parents who are abusive or unable to take care of them, in the care of guardians. That is 11 percent down […]
There is a joke at Harvard University that the only things older than the fossils in its Museum of Natural History are the scholars in its classrooms. Tenured faculty are not required to retire, and at least 180 Harvard professors — including nearly 20 percent of those who teach undergraduates — are over 65.
A new report by the UN Childrens Fund (Unicef) says most children in Bangladesh are subject to physical abuse at school, at home or where they work. The study entitled Opinions of Children of Bangladesh on Corporal Punishment covered nearly 4,000 families and was published on October 8.In all regards, the children of Bangladesh are […]
Since the Labour Party came to power in 1997 proclaiming education its priority, one grand policy after another has foundered. Schools were told to run themselves — but forbidden to do the things that matter most, such as paying good teachers more. Parents were encouraged to choose schools — but with too few attractive ones […]
When European education ministers met in Bologna in 1999 and promised to forge a common market for universities within a decade, it seemed mere Euro-rhetoric. Big obstacles stopped students nipping abroad for a term, or getting degrees recognised. Many countries offered no degree below Masters level. Some examined course modules separately, others all in one […]
“They (Taliban) are savages and we’re like a helpless herd, with no one to protect us,” says Sikander Ali, father of four girls, speaking to IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) over the phone from Pakistan’s Swat valley. Ali was reacting to news that militants had ordered a ban on girls’ education from January 15. Swat […]
France may think of itself as a literary society, but real prestige is reserved for mathematics. Excellence in maths determines access to the elite, via ultra-selective grandes ecoles such as the Ecole Nationale d’Administration or the Polytechnique.
More French mathematicians have won the Fields Medal, a top international prize, than from any other European country. Top maths […]
Rachad arrived from morocco two years ago. He supports Milan (“of course”) and wants to be an electrician, like his father. Manpreet is a Punjabi Sikh, who followed her lorry-driver father here five years ago. Her ambition is rather different — she wants to become president of India. Adama, from Senegal, is the shyest. At […]
Russian universities will keep their own system of entrance exams when the country introduces its long-delayed unified state exam, a nationwide scheme similar to A levels. Years of lobbying by rectors of top universities to halt a common school-leaving / university entrance exam seems to have paid off after the education ministry announced a […]
Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) has been honoured with the prestigious Madhya Pradesh Annual Environmental Award 2025. The award was conferred by chief minister Dr. Mohan .....Read More
At least 19 people have been killed and more than 100 injured after a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training aircraft crashed into Milestone College .....Read More
