More children are not going to school because they have health or other issues, or because of their parents’ (religious) principles, putting their rights under pressure, children’s ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer has said in a letter to education minister Mariëlle Paul. Local council figures show some 7,389 children with a physical or mental impairment do not currently go to school compared to 5,077 children in 2014. That year a law obliging schools to provide fitting education to all children was...
Edinburgh’s first Muslim faith school is set to open after the council’s concerns over noise issues were dismissed. The Scottish Government said it could not accept the local authority’s view that a primary school for up to 100 pupils on Calder Road next to HMP Edinburgh at Saughton would cause an ‘inappropriate’ level of disturbance for local residents and granted planning permission. It comes following an appeal against planners’ “bizarre” conclusion that people living in nearby properties...
Britain's plummeting birth rate is threating to trigger a 'catastrophic' meltdown of the nation's education system, with fears shrinking class sizes could spark a tsunami of primary school closures.
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A couple opened up their arms and home to 11 foster children, something they never imagined but quickly discovered was inevitable.
A council report says an increasing number of parents are refusing school places offered to them.
School breakfast programs? Has anyone bothered to find out why some children are coming to school without having eaten breakfast? Have their parents been confronted with this unacceptable situation? It is the parents’ responsibility to feed their children, not the school’s. If parents cannot afford to feed them, then grocery vouchers should be provided by […]
AXARQUIA villages are set to benefit from the establishment of the region’s first Online Training School, thanks to an agreement between President Vicente Campos of the Sierras Tejeda and Almijara Natural Park Consortium, local mayors, and Matrícula 10 company. President Campos Leads Axarquia’s Educational Transformation President Campos stressed the importance of education in securing employment […]
Regulating new technology is never simple, but the status quo offers inadequate protectionThe principle that some products are available to adults and not children is uncontroversial. Access to weapons, alcohol and pornography is curtailed in this way because a level of maturity is the precondition for access (but not a guarantee of responsible use).Until recently, few people put smartphones in that category. The idea of an age restriction on sales would be dismissed as luddism or state-control...
A recent study disproves the notion of COVID-19's increased risk of asthma in children. There's no proof that a child's chance of developing asthma is increased by a COVID-19 infection, according to a recent study.
“Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States," a flyer distibuted by Resource Center Matamoros tells migrants who seek to enter the U.S. unlawfully. The post Illegals Instructed to Vote Biden for Border NGO to ‘Stay Open’ first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
A Coventry council report warned of the effects of soaring demand for school places