Tag: education

• Tuesday, January 14th 2025 - 10:23 UTC

  Lula signs into law the banning of cell phones in elementary schools

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Monday into law Bill 104/2015 restricting the use of portable electronic devices such as cell phones in public and private elementary schools nationwide. A presidential decree is due in the next 30 days to regulate the measure so that it becomes valid by the start of the school year in February. The bill was approved by Congress at the end of last year.

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• Wednesday, April 24th 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Massive demonstrations across Argentina defend public education amid budget cuts

  

  Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, and workers flooded the streets of Argentina in a historic display of unity against proposed budget cuts to public education. The demonstrations, which took place in over twenty cities across the country, marked one of the largest protests in the last 20 years of Argentine democracy.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 19:51 UTC

  Brazil: Lula launches 100 new educational training centers

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched 100 new campuses of Federal Institutes of Education, Science, and Technology (IFS) this week nationwide because “it is through education that we will become a first-world country.”

• Thursday, March 30th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Falklands, changes made to the provision of Camp Education

  

  In August 2022 the Falkland Islands ExCo approved a set of recommendations on the way that Camp Education is provided to families. The recommendations were made after extensive consultation with the communities in Camp and in Stanley during the Camp Education Review. A key objective of the review was ensuring that children in Camp and Stanley have the same standard of education.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Falklands new Director of Education: ex Principal and Chief Executive of City College Southampton

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has announced the appointment of Sarah Stannard as the new Director of Education, who arrived in the Islands on Monday 12 September 2022. Sarah read History at Kings’ College London and, more recently gained a Masters in Education at the University of Southampton.

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:29 UTC

  Should a 12-year-old sign contract with parents to have a cell phone?

  

  A Twitter user who goes by the alias of “Judge the Ripper” launched a survey seeking approval for a measure he and his wife allegedly devised to buy their 12-year-old daughter a cell phone.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  World Bank-UNESCO-UNICEF report lays out the magnitude of the education crisis and costs for future generations

  

  This generation of students now risks losing US$ 17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14% of today’s global GDP, as a result of COVID-19 pandemic-related school closures, according to a new report published today by the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF. The new projection reveals that the impact is more severe than previously thought, and far exceeds the US$ 10 trillion estimates released in 2020.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine Health Ministry needs 10,000 wooden penises for educational purposes

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry has called for tenders to purchase a large assortment of items, including 10,000 wooden human penises for educational purposes, it was reported.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Falklands celebrate GCSE results: 96% of students secure points to continue overseas studies

  

  The Falkland Islands government has congratulated students and teachers for the success achieved in this year's General Certificate of Secondary Education, GCSE, exams which open the way to continue tertiary studies overseas, and a greater autonomous future for the Islands.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Bolsonaro makes the academic more attendance flexible

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro enacted a law to exempt schools from having to meet a minimum number of school days amid the Covid-19 pandemic, making this academic year more flexible.