カテゴリー: Education
Footage shows vehicle veering into oncoming traffic before crashing through barrierAt least 21 people have been killed after a bus carrying students preparing to sit their university entrance exam plunged into a lake in south-west China.The bus crashed…
Vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia suspended, then reinstated after he alleged widespread financial irregularitiesFor decades a jewel in the crown of Pacific regionalism, the University of the South Pacific has endured 12 months of scandal, beset by allegat…
John Munro on his slave-owning ancestor, Martin Wright on corporate irresponsibility in India, Peter McKenna on class awareness, Jane Darling on black and white history, Brian Keegan on anti-Irish racism, Dorothy Chang on ‘yellow history’ and Barbara H…
Bringing skateboards to children in Madhya Pradesh gives them enthusiasm to go to school and gives girls a confidence in themselvesThe children skid into the dusty courtyard at breakfast time, grabbing skateboards from a stack near a tethered brown cow…
In a bid to stem spread of the virus, schools in Hong Kong, China and Japan have been shut for weeksCoronavirus outbreak – live updates“It’s been a long holiday,” laughs Hong Kong insurance worker and mother, Sarah Wong.Wong and her two daughters, Chlo…
Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar The Indian government has asked the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return a 15th-century bronze idol that was apparently stolen from a temple in the 1960s.The Indi…