Flanders to ban Muslim headscarf in schools
Brussels - The Belgian Dutch-speaking region of Flanders is to ban the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in state-run schools, officials announced Friday after 10 days of confrontations with the Muslim minority over the issue. The decision by the auth...
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2009-09-11 ] Category : [
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Judgement day looms over Belgian headscarf ban
Brussels - A ban on schoolgirls wearing the Islamic headscarf which has provoked furious demonstrations in the Belgian city of Antwerp is facing judgement day after a top official suggested that it should be suspended. Belgium's State Council is set ...
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2009-09-09 ] Category : [
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Hamas denies imposing dress code on Gaza school girls
Gaza - Hamas on Saturday denied a human rights report accusing of it imposing an Islamic dress code on Gaza school girls. Gaza residents claimed to have received unofficial orders that secondary school girls be made to maintain an Islamic dress code ...
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2009-09-05 ] Category : [
Education (General) ]
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Universities look to get on merchandising bandwagon
Oxford, England - It is no surprise that students attending an Oxford college might want to show off their elite status. But now shops in the city have gone one step further and are selling underwear with a picture of the extinct Dodo, the DNA of whi...
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2009-09-03 ] Category : [
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ADB, Japan boost preschool access among Mongolia's poor
Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Monday it was partnering with Japan to fund a pilot project aimed at improving access to preschool education among the poor in Mongolia. The Manila-based ADB said the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, wh...
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2009-08-31 ] Category : [
Education (General) ]
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Indonesian teacher burns students in lesson on hell
Jakarta - An Indonesian teacher has been suspended after she allegedly burned her students with matches to make a point that hell is much hotter than match fire, a report said Thursday. The teacher at a junior high school in the West Java city of Ban...
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2009-08-27 ] Category : [
Education (General) ]
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French in favour of abolishing school-free Wednesdays
Paris - Two out of three French people would abolish school- free Wednesdays for elementary-level pupils, according to a survey published on Thursday in the newspaper Le Parisien. Introducing lessons on Wednesdays would remove the problem many parent...
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2009-08-27 ] Category : [
Education (General) ]
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