Now is the time to tackle the schoolbook publishing industry
September 25, 2012
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Now is the time to tackle the schoolbook publishing industry.
“The development of the ebook sector offers the Department an opportunity to reshape the field, so that it works for the student, parent and school instead of for the publishing industry. I believe that we should demand clarity now from ebook publishers around how they plan to handle edits and reissues, and the pricing of ebooks generally…”
“Now is the time for the Department of Education to rethink the way classroom material is compiled, published, updated, priced and paid for. The sector is changing. We have to power now to change it for the better. Let’s not just drift into the next chapter and spend another generation complaining about it.”
Newspaper initiative to improve literacy
September 21, 2012
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Newspaper initiative to improve literacy.
AN INITIATIVE to give transition year students a better idea of how newspapers work and to improve literacy will begin on Monday. The Press Pass scheme will see free national and regional newspapers distributed to 14,000 students in 250 schools over a fortnight. They will be accompanied by a workbook.
The idea “should help to improve literacy standards for those students taking part” because of the “strong yet practical focus on reading and writing”, Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn said yesterday.
The initiative by National Newspapers of Ireland (NNI) is in conjunction with the Department of Education.
Asylum children go hungry, says report
September 19, 2012
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Asylum children go hungry, says report.
MANY CHILDREN in the State’s asylum process are living in extreme poverty in overcrowded accommodation with inadequate food, according to a report published yesterday.
The Irish Refugee Council report paints a grim picture of the State’s system for accommodating asylum-seekers, known as direct provision. It documents frequent instances of malnutrition among children and expectant mothers, as well as illnesses related to diet among babies and young children….
Of the 5,098 people residing in reception centres for asylum-seekers, over one third, or 1,789, are children.
Families are given an allowance of €19.10 per week for an adult and €9.60 per child.
The system, which was set up in 2000 by the Department of Justice to deal with the increasing number of asylum claimants, was intended to house applicants and their families for six months.
However, the report says asylum-seekers in Ireland typically spent four years in the system, and in some cases over seven years, awaiting the processing of asylum claims….
Child deaths down 40% – UN
September 14, 2012
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COUNTRIES ACROSS the world are making rapid progress on child survival rates, showing it is possible to bring down child mortality significantly in two decades, according to Unicef, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
In its latest report on child survival, the organisation hailed a sharp drop of about 40 per cent in the number of children under the age of five dying, with the estimated global toll falling from nearly 12 million in 1990 to 6.9 million in 2011…
Pambazuka – Libyan humiliation a driving force for anti-Americanism
September 13, 2012
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Pambazuka – Libyan humiliation a driving force for anti-Americanism.
Al-Nass (The People) and other television channels of ‘Satellite Salafism’ broadcast news of a year-old mediocre film trailer about the life of the Prophet Mohammad, made by an Israeli-Californian and championed by a Florida-based Christian pastor. Across the waters, radicals spurred each other on. The reactions in Cairo and Benghazi were swift. Crowds formed in front of the US embassy in Egypt and the US consulate in Libya, storming them and, in Benghazi, a rocket-fired grenade – it seems – killed four US officials, including the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens…
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