News from Fiji Times: THE Government wants all primary schools in the country to have early childhood education centres by 2017. Education Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy said this in Parliament on Friday. Dr Reddy said of the 730 primary schools in the country, 332 do not have Early Childhood Education centres but have Class 1. [...]
News from AllAfrica.com: editorial Sometime this year, the government came out with strict instructions that all children of school-going age should be in school, and not employed in child labour or roaming the streets. It went even further; parents would be held accountable if they failed to send their children to school because the necessary [...]
News from spyghana.com: Following many cases about girl-child education in Techiman and the nation as a whole, the communication and research team of Center of Posterity Interest Organistion (COPIO), an NGO located in Techiman took the pains to infer much into the situation and to find suggested solution in combating it. Centre of Posterity Interest [...]
News from Sydney Morning Herald: The ABS has revealed that consumer price index increases for childcare and schooling have outstripped price rises in other parts of the economy. Photo: Louie Douvis Comment: NSW childcare minister faces preschool stoush Parents worried that childcare and education costs are hitting their wallets far harder than most other areas [...]
News from The Guardian: ‘Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.’ Photograph: Alamy The education spokespeople of the three main parties have said (admitted? confessed? boasted?) that they would be OK with sending their children to private schools. Anyone trying to explain to a [...]
News from Minnesota Public Radio News: Listen NEA president on state of No Child Left Behind 13min 57sec Lily Eskelsen Garcia: President, NEA The nation’s main education law, which for more than a decade has been known as N……………. continues on Minnesota Public Radio News >>> Read the full article . Related News: . News [...]
News from U.S. News & World Report: Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. listens to testimony in January during a Senate education committee hearing on No Child Left Behind. The committee on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to update the education law. Clearing its first big hurdle, a bipartisan bill to overhaul the long-outdated No Child [...]
News from Telegraph.co.uk: However, he said, some parents are changing from “sensible” and “moderate” people, who have faith in their schools and teachers, and are “turning into dervishes ready to battle with anything and anyone on behalf of ‘their’ child? “What has made some parents put their own child at the centre of the universe [...]
News from ABC Online: By Gail Burke Updated April 11, 2015 13:35:49 Education Queensland has confirmed its director of child safety, Brett Anthony O’Connor, is facing child sex charges. Police allege O’Connor sexually and indecently assaulted two boys at schools at Hunters Hill and Campbelltown in New South Wales between 1987 and 1989. Both matters [...]
News from MarketWatch: MCLEAN, Va., April 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Science Applications International Corp. SAIC, -0.55% announced today at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Global Force Symposium that it will donate $ 175,000 to the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC). As part of SAIC’s commitment to continue support children of military families, this donation [...]
