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Abstinence programmes confusing US teenagers - Feature
Washington - As if adolescence wasn't hard enough. In the US, many teenagers are growing up sexually confused by the conflicting messages of abstinence-only education programmes promoted by the religious right and the administration of President Geor...

[Posted on : 2008-07-08 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Italian minister: Only one-third of Roma children attend school
Rome - Some 23,000, or around two-thirds of Roma children living in Italy, fail to attend any form of schooling, Italy's Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini, said Tuesday. Gelmini remarks followed a stinging attack by a major Italian Catholic week...

[Posted on : 2008-07-01 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Preparation for the first day of school: plenty of physical activity
Munich - Parents ask themselves a lot of questions before their child's first day of school: How will my child handle this new chapter in life? Is my child fit enough for the school routine? How robust should he or she be?In Germany, preliminary answ...

[Posted on : 2008-06-30 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Berlin students forced to resit maths finals
Berlin - Some 28,000 10th grade students in Berlin were forced to resit their final mathematics test on Monday after details of the original examination were leaked in advance. Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into how pupils came i...

[Posted on : 2008-06-23 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

NEWS  Catholic church and academics battle over university - Feature
Berlin - A power struggle reached a climax this week between the Catholic Church and academics at the German speaking-world's sole Catholic university, raising questions about whether faith and scholarship can get along with one another. The Catholic...

[Posted on : 2008-06-18 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Girls fare better in maths in countries where women are more equal
Florence, Italy - Girls are better than boys in reading, but they also can keep up with boys in mathematics when the genders are on a more equal footing in their native countries, according to research published in the journal Science. The data came ...

[Posted on : 2008-06-12 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Czech teachers, school employees strike over salaries
Prague - More than a half of the Czech Republic's elementary and secondary schools Monday took part in a nationwide strike for higher salaries, the teachers' trade union said. More than 130,000 teachers and school employees at nearly 6,000 schools jo...

[Posted on : 2008-06-09 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Germany and Turkey to build joint university in Istanbul
Berlin - Ali Babacan, the Turkish foreign minister, signed a contract in Berlin on Friday to establish a German-language university in the Turkish city of Istanbul. The university, part of the Turkish state system, is planned to have faculties of law...

[Posted on : 2008-05-30 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Girls smarter given equal opportunity
Rome - Little girls may be made of sugar and spice and all things nice, but they almost always grow up to trump boys in reading skills and, given equal opportunity, can also match males' ability at maths, a new study suggests. Italian and US research...

[Posted on : 2008-05-29 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

Three injured in Greek student protests against reforms
Athens - Three people were injured on Wednesday following clashes between rival student unions outside a university in the Greek capital in protest of education reforms, reports said. Police said a group of students hurled rocks and petrol bombs at o...

[Posted on : 2008-05-28 ] Category : [ Education (General) ]

 



 

 


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