02 November, 2015 - Minister O’Sullivan welcomes attendees to the Inaugural...
(Source: Department of Education & Skills of Ireland) The Department of Education and Skills, is today hosting the inaugural Forum on Education for Sustainable Development. The Forum follows the...
View ArticlePolish vote marks resurgence of conservative Catholic values
By Justyna Pawlak WARSAW (Reuters) - Church attendance may be falling in Poland as elsewhere across Europe, but the victory of conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party in Sunday's election...
View ArticlePrime Minister: Latvia and the United States are bound by close strategic and...
(Source: Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia) On Thursday, November 5, Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma held a meeting with representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia to...
View ArticlePPP Elects New Officers And Unveils 2016 Slogan
Retained National Chairman of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nii-Allotey Brew-Hammond, has indicated his readiness and determination to work hard with his new team to wrestle power from the...
View ArticleUK and Ghana sign prison transfer agreement (UK Ministry of Justice)
(Source: UK Ministry of Justice) The UK has signed a compulsory prisoner transfer agreement with Ghana to allow transfer of prisoners between each country. Signed during a visit to the West African...
View ArticlePiS will get PLN 18.54 mln in subsidies
Winner of Sunday’s general election Law and Justice (PiS) will receive PLN 18.54 million in subsidies from the state, while its main rival, the outgoing Civic Platform (PO) will get PLN 15.46 million....
View ArticlePresident appoints new Polish government (President of the Republic of Poland)
(Source: President of the Republic of Poland) President Andrzej Duda appointed the new Polish government during a Monday ceremony following a sweeping victory of the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) in...
View ArticleCompulsory Tamil edu: Court wants panel to expedite matter
CHENNAI: With time running out for all schools in Tamil Nadu to ensure that their students wrote Tamil as part-I subject in Class 10 examination in March 2016, the Madras high court feels the issue...
View ArticleCompulsory Tamil in schools: HC directs govt. to decide fast
Concerned over the limited time left for the school examinations in March next year, the Madras High Court on Monday directed the State government to expeditiously decide on exemption sought by some...
View ArticleSwearing-in of the Cabinet of Beata Szydło (Chancellery of the Prime Minister...
(Source: Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland) On behalf of the Polish Government, I would like to thank you and assure that we will do everything to keep the words of the oath...
View ArticlePolish government resigns after election defeat
Poland's outgoing prime minister Ewa Kopacz on Thursday announced the government's resignation after her liberal Civic Platform (PO) party lost a general election to conservative rivals Law and Justice...
View ArticleIsraeli MPs vote to make Arabic compulsory in schools
Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to make Arabic classes compulsory for students from the age of six, in a move backers hoped would help improve ties between Israeli Jews and Arabs. The vote came amid...
View ArticleWill China's 'one child' reversal result in a baby boom?
China is dealing with a “demographic time bomb" as its population ages and its emerging economy needs younger workers, and more of them. (DepositPhotos) As with the Arab Spring, the revolution in Syria...
View ArticlePPP will decouple Attorney General’s office from Justice Ministry
Explaining the issue of the separation further, he said there would be two separate judiciary offices, a Chief State Prosecutor (CSP), nominated by the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) on the advice of the...
View ArticlePPP Will Decouple AGs Office From Justice Ministry
The Founder of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has stated categorically that a PPP-led government will ensure the separation of the Attorney-General’s office from that of the...
View ArticleCorbyn turns down chance to speak to CBI but Labour denies 'snub'
Jeremy Corbyn has turned down an invitation to speak at next week's CBI annual conference of business leaders. The BBC's Norman Smith said Labour's leader cited "prior arrangements" and the party had...
View ArticleCPC eyes innovation edge in future educational reform (Beijing Municipal...
(Source: Beijing Municipal Government) The Communist Party of China (CPC) has said that education will cultivate the next generation's 'innovation edge.' The CPC wants to equip students with 'social...
View ArticleNicola Sturgeon vows to replace tax credit losses for families in Scotland
First minister promises ‘credible’ plans to mitigate cuts, but will not confirm if she will match full amount of lost benefits...
View ArticleNumber of early leavers from education falls by 2.3% in three years
The Education and Training Monitor 2015 shows that the number of students leaving school early has dropped by 2.3% in the last three years. But Malta is still far from reaching the EU target of 10 per...
View ArticleNOTA gets another chance, hearing today
AHMEDABAD: The voters in Gujarat may get a chance to use None of the Above (NOTA) button during coming civic body polls as the applicant advocate K R Koshti have filed a petition requesting Gujarat...
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