BRASILIA/SAO PAULO Brazil announced another cut to education spending on Thursday, the latest step back from President Dilma Rousseff’s pledge to turn the Latin American giant into an “education nation” in her second term. Brazil will reduce the amount it spends on education by 1 billion reais ($296.7 million) this year as part of a… Read More »
About 85% of all households who have children in public pre-schools still pay some form of levies and charges. This is according to the 2014 Citizens’ Assessment Survey on the capitation grant scheme. This is regardless of the introduction of capitation grants to eliminate these charges and levies. Under the scheme, public basic schools in Ghana… Read More »
In trading on Wednesday, trucking shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 4.2%. Leading the group were shares of YRC Worldwide (YRCW), up about 19.2% and shares of Saia (SAIA) up about 10.1% on the day. Also showing relative strength are education training services shares, up on the day by about 3.8%… Read More »
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In the early 1970s, the University of California, Berkeley was sued for gender discrimination over admission to graduate school. Of the 8,442 male applicants for the fall of 1973, 44 percent were admitted, but only 35 percent of the 4,351 female applicants were accepted. At first blush, and assuming the applicants’ qualifications were similar, this… Read More »
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In China, people are more likely to understand the risks of climate change if they live in the city instead of the countryside. Almost everyone in Japan knows about climate change. In Egypt, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and India, more than 65 percent of people do. In Burundi, Benin, and Liberia, almost nobody has heard of it. All… Read More »
Regional News of Wednesday, 29 July 2015 Source: GNA 2015-07-29 Ebo Barton Odro, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Mr Ebo Barton Odro, First Deputy Speaker, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Cape Coast North, on Monday stated that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) must be a basic necessity for all pupils at the basic school… Read More »
The education secretary has promised teachers she will tackle unnecessary bureaucracy in schools by establishing working groups on marking, lesson planning and pupil data, following years of complaints from those in the profession. Nicky Morgan said she would ask the three committees to look at the administrative burden faced by teachers and school leaders, after… Read More »
The University Student Association (USAG) has called on the Ministry of Education (MOE) and other stakeholders in the education sector to revise the academic curricular of tertiary institutions in the country. This, it said, was because the current tertiary education curriculum, introduced about 30 years ago, is composed of modules that have no or little… Read More »