Hospitals’ Medicaid support to change
Taxpayers subsidize the cost of training doctors at dozens of hospitals across Ohio through the Medicaid program, which is funded by the federal and state governments. But the formulas used by Ohio...
View ArticleBill drafted to get detention back after Class V
NEW DELHI: In a move that's going to make the Delhi government unpopular with educationists, it has drafted a separate Bill re-instating detention beyond Class V . The non-detention policy barring...
View ArticleBijnor gets 191 schools, but no money to appoint teachers
Bijnor: Despite the completion of construction of 191 model schools in Bijnor - part of an ambitious bid to provide quality English education to rural areas - the schools are yet to start their...
View ArticleChallenge to make 100 low-cost classics available to schools (UK Department...
(Source: UK Department for Education) Schools Minister Nick Gibb today (17 November 2015) challenged publishers to make 100 classic books available at low cost, so all pupils have the chance to read...
View ArticleGov't investing big in early childhood education
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites says the Government is making significant investment in early childhood education as part of the national development process. He noted that the period between birth...
View ArticleKitty Holland: The religious bias of our national schools is beyond belief
A colleague, driving his unbaptised six-year-old daughter to school recently, was informed from the back seat: “God made this car, Daddy. My teacher told me God made everything in the world.” In an...
View ArticleIreland’s baby boom spawns school building projects
Hundreds of new school building projects and more than 60,000 additional school places will be provided over the next six years to keep pace with Ireland’s baby boom. Minister for Education Jan...
View ArticleFewer school bullies but cyberbullying is on the increase
Fewer children face being targeted in the playground, but girls are more at risk of aggressive behaviour via social media...
View ArticleNo desks or chairs, but Haryana govt schools to get 'smart' classes
GURGAON: Government schools in the state, which lack the most basic of resources, are getting ready to set up 'smart classrooms' soon. About 500 schools in 31 districts in the state, including Gurgaon,...
View ArticleCitizens more concerned about overall direction of Afghanistan, survey shows
A new survey conducted The Asia Foundation shows that Afghans are more concerned over political transition, insecurity, and struggling economy of the country and there for losing confidence in the...
View ArticleHundreds of Pakistani 'ghost schools' have funding stopped
PAKISTAN has halted funding to hundreds of "ghost schools" and fired 450 absentee teachers, as officials vowed to crack down on the practice in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. "We have...
View Article17 November, 2015 - 310 Major School Building Projects Announced by Minister...
(Source: Department of Education & Skills of Ireland) Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O'Sullivan, TD today announced a new programme of capital investment in schools. Running from 2016 to...
View ArticleThe Asia Foundation Releases 2015 Survey of the Afghan People (The Asia...
(Source: The Asia Foundation) Major Afghan public opinion poll reveals rising concern over political transition, insecurity, and struggling economy Kabul, November 16, 2015 - Afghan optimism about the...
View ArticleFilling chasms of health and education: Bridging the digital divide
Technology is a strange enabler for people with access. It’s a powerful tool that makes life simpler, faster and cost-efficient. It has been a prime road of change in rural or urban, agriculture or...
View ArticleUniversities step up drive to close gender gap
The gender gulf among undergraduates is growing, with females dominating in medicine, law and biology...
View ArticleHow the Taliban Gets Its Cash
A poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan Officially, it's believed that the Taliban has a yearly budget of around 500 million dollars. In private, however, Western and Afghani intelligence...
View ArticleRemarks by Director Michelle K. Lee at the "Invention: Does Gender Matter?"...
(Source: US Patent and Trademark Office) Invention: Does Gender Matter? Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Michelle K. Lee Opening Remarks November 10, 2015 10:00 AM Remarks as prepared...
View ArticleChild Soldiers: a tool to sustain power in the Afghan war
By: Sara Spowart and Ahmad Waheed According to the organization Child Soldiers International, the internationally agreed upon definition for a child soldier is: a child associated with an armed force...
View ArticleAn Afghan women's radio station becomes a Taliban casualty
Kunduz: As the Taliban fighters approached, the employees of Radio Roshani fled. They locked the door behind them, and the station kept airing pre-recorded programs, seemingly in defiance. On the...
View ArticleBullying in school plummets (UK Department for Education)
(Source: UK Department for Education) Bullying and violence in English schools has plummeted in the last decade, a major new study has revealed. The landmark study involving more than 10,000 secondary...
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