[Unicef] Abuja, Nigeria — New UNICEF report shows that just 37 per cent of schools across 10 states have early warning systems in place to identify threats, such as school attacks
[Daily Trust] Today, April 14, 2024, marks the tenth anniversary of a national disaster. It coincides with the day Boko Haram terrorists dressed in military uniforms abducted 276 final year school girls in a nighttime raid from their dormitory in Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. About 50 of the girls escaped immediately by jumping out of the lorries, in which they were...
[Daily Trust] When the Abubakar Shekau-led Boko Haram perpetrated the infamous mass abduction of teenage girls in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014, precisely a decade ago today, the first major challenge was the failure of all the relevant stakeholders to reach a consensus that indeed there was a security breach of monumental proportions.
[Daily Trust] Vanderbilt University, USA — The recent revival of the Almajiri education programme, marked by the establishment of the Almajiri Commission, reflects a commendable commitment to addressing this longstanding issue. However, the track record of past endeavours raises valid doubts about the potential success of this latest initiative. From the deportation of Almajiri children to...
Though the academic scene continues to imbue this coastal Connecticut city with a certain gravitas, surrounding neighborhoods are showing off their own cultural capital in the realms of art, food, music and more.
Today’s puzzles come from the quill of Rob Eastaway, the bard of brainteasers, whose latest book Much Ado About Numbers is a journey into Shakespeare’s mathematical life and times.
Fawcett Society warns sector is lacking in ambition and delivery and calls for free ‘universal’ hours
Labour in a bind over much-needed childcare reform
England’s childcare system is failing and falling behind those of much of the rest of the world, a UK charity for gender equality and women’s rights has said.
The Fawcett Society said childcare in England was failing on several fronts:...
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Which individual has been treated most unfairly by history? AlexMiddleton, Rutland
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Meeting at London’s Royal Society will scrutinise basic model first formulated in 1922 that universe is a vast, even expanse with no notable features
If you zoomed out on the universe, well beyond the level of planets, stars or galaxies, you would eventually see a vast, evenly speckled expanse with no notable features. At least, that has been the conventional view.
Leading barrister warns that the kit – used to support gender-questioning children – is likely to be in breach of equality laws and could violate pupils’ rights
Schools in England and Wales have been warned by one of the country’s leading equality and human rights barristers that the “toolkit” many of them use to support gender-questioning children is unlawful.
[SAnews.gov.za] Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Professor Blade Nzimande, has dissolved the board of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and placed it under administration.