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Emergence of no-gender societies
A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.
Growing failures of social care in educating young people
New evidence mounts demonstrating the lack of educational engagement and achievement among young people from social care backgrounds. The perceived crisis of social care is intensified as “cycles of deprivation” accumulate ...
Less than half of UK engineering and physical science gradua ...
There are many students deferring university entry because there is perceived higher competition for university entrants places. A knock-on effect could be a sudden downturn in UK student intake, leading to a dip in terms of sk...
Social Innovation – The Urganda Rural Development and Trai ...
The Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme is a non-profit organization that provides education and training for rural development in the very poor and diverse Kibaale District of Uganda. URDTP is seen as a benchmark p...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
Sprout – E-course for Idea Growth
Sprout offers an electronic course, in which people from all over the world can exchange their knowledge and help each other to further elaborate their social or environmental project ideas. Sprout tries to attract dynamic ac...
University offers Lady Gaga sociology course
As reported by BBC, a new course on "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame" is to be taught at the University of South Carolina. Course documents said students would learn to "engage in sound and substantiated scholarly think...
UK Government spending cuts force libraries to close, this may result in people from deprived areas being unable to access books for reading pleasure. This will increase the current educational gap between rich and poorer area...
Idea of life-long-learning seems to start to penetrate society
In the future, the degrees may not be for whole lifetime anymore. It may be mandatory to update you qualifications in order to be qualified to certain profession. Life-long-learning challenges the contemporary degrees.
