School results, smoking rates, shop closures? New statistics tool helps you compare local areas in the UK: Stephen Plaster|Shutterstock If you’re not a die-hard numbers person, government statistics can often go right over your head. That is, unless the data is easy to access and directly speaks to your everyday life. A new online service …
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Concrete in schools: how missing data and poor funding contributed to today’s closures: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock In September 2022, schools in England were at risk of bankruptcy as their day-to-day spending threatened to overtake their regular income. A hasty autumn budget included additional revenue funds for schools, coming as a relief to many school leaders. …
Bank account closures don’t just affect ‘politically exposed persons’ – sex workers have struggled with financial exclusion for years: BongkarnGraphic/Shutterstock The fallout over the closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account has shed light on how financial institutions handle “politically exposed persons”, whom they may view as high-risk clients. Farge, the former Ukip leader, who held …
Ebola: Uganda’s schools were closed for two years during COVID, now they face more closures — something must change: Extended school closures during the pandemic set Ugandan children far behind their peers. BADRU KATUMBA/AFP via Getty Images Children in Uganda missed out on more school because of the COVID pandemic than their peers anywhere else …
Oil refinery closures, cleaner fuels and security of supply in South Africa: Firefighters putting out a fire at an Engen oil refinery on 4 December 2020 in Durban, South Africa. Gallo Images via GettyImages While South Africa has been preoccupied with rolling electricity blackouts, security of liquid fuels supply has been overlooked even though – …
How teachers supported children and parents through COVID-19 school closures: Studio Romantic/Shutterstock When the first wave of COVID-19 reached England, the national lockdown led to school closures with very little warning for pupils, teachers and parents. Children’s homes became their classrooms. We carried out research into primary school teachers’ experiences of remote learning during the …
South Africa’s COVID school closures hit girls hard — but they showed resilience too: Dropping out of school has long term significant consequences for adolescent girls and young women. AJ_Watt via GettyImages South Africa’s school dropout rate was high even before the COVID pandemic. Research shows that around 60% of young people effectively drop out …
Deeper divide: what Kenya’s pandemic school closures left in their wake: Students at a primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, queue to have their temperature taken when public schools fully reopened on 4 January 2021. Gordwin Odhiambo/AFP via Getty Images In Kenya, the pandemic disrupted learning for 15 million students in primary and secondary institutions. Schools …
What young people want to help them recover from school closures: Many children suffered from too much time spent playing alone during lockdown. Robert Collins | Unsplash, FAL Children need help to recover from the disruption COVID has brought to their schooling. Much of the focus – and government funding – has been on academic …
The impact of school closures: why reception year is so crucial to a child’s development: DGLimages/Shutterstock The pandemic has held back the learning of the youngest schoolchildren. A recent report has found that children in year one in the 2020-2021 academic year – those who had missed significant periods of their reception year education during …
The link between local pub closures and support for UKIP: Alamy/Wayne Hutchinson The decline of the high street has been hollowing out British town centres in recent years. When pubs, community centres, libraries and banks close, it adds to a sense of local decline. In my recently published research, I found that local decline contributes …
How African countries can reform education to get ahead after pandemic school closures: Without urgent action, short-term learning losses could stunt the next generation of students for a lifetime. Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a historic shock to education, shuttering schools for over 1.6 billion children worldwide. This shock will worsen a pre-existing …
COVID: poorest countries should have stopped short of full workplace closures – economist: COVID and containment measures have brought Afghanistan to brink of humanitarian catastrophe. Mohammad Rahmani/Unsplash In Afghanistan, about 11 million people – 35% of the population – are struggling to get access to decent food. The years of conflict have played a part, …
A practical guide to JavaScript closures: In 4 reasons why JavaScript is so popular, I touched on a few advanced JavaScript concepts. In this article, I will dive into one of them: closures. read more: Opensource.com nimisha Supporting Open Source. Have you tried: Visiting Port Elizabeth?
South Africa in the news: South Africa to lift Covid border closures: South Africa says it will on Monday reopen 20 of its land border crossings that were shut last month to try to stop the spread of Covid-19 infections. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting on …: “South Africa” – BingNews Adult …
Border closures are not the answer to the UK’s coronavirus crisis: Borders have moved, not uncommonly for the UK, to the forefront of public discussion in 2021. The home secretary, Priti Patel, recently expressed rare contrition for the failure to close borders in March 2020 – a point on which Labour leader Keir Starmer took …
Coronavirus school closures: what’s the evidence?: The COVID-19 pandemic has been disastrous for many children, whose education and development have been badly affected by repeated school closures. Schools in the UK were first closed to most pupils as a pandemic control measure in March 2020 and again in January 2021 in response to the spread …