Schools
Russia: Call for restoring minority language component in schools
February 23, 2010By Paul Goble Inspired by the UN’s declaration of February 21 as International Native Language Day, some 100 scholars and activists met over the weekend in Chuvashia and demanded that Moscow reverse course and restore the non-Russian language...
WHO Urges Governments To Put Flu Plans Into Action
April 30, 2009By Ron Synovitz The World Health Organization (WHO) has upgraded its pandemic alert level for a new strain of the swine flu from Phase 4 to Phase 5 on its six-phase scale. The declaration of Phase 5 means that the new flu virus has crossed borders...
Indian troops leave Kashmir facilities
November 26, 2007The Indian Army is no longer using schools and hospitals in Kashmir to quarter its soldiers in a move that is being called largely symbolic. Politicians in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir said the presence of the troops was interfering with...
U.S. presidential debate schools named
November 20, 2007The U.S. Commission on Presidential Debates named schools in Mississippi, Tennessee, New York and Missouri as sites for 2008 presidential candidate debates. The bipartisan commission said the first debate on domestic issues will be Friday, Sept. ...
Schools barred from dreadlock rules
October 12, 2007The Zimbabwean Supreme Court has ruled that school authorities may not expel students for wearing their hair in dreadlocks. The ruling stemmed from a case in which a 7-year-old Rastafarian boy was kept out of a government primary school because of...