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In midst of COVID-19 pandemic, UConn attracts record 38,000 applications for the fall of 2021

Article by Social Share Washington – A new joint report by the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has found that Caribbean and other countries are cutting their education budgets due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Washington-based financial institution and the Paris-based UNESCO Education Finance Watch (EFW) said that education budgets are not adjusting proportionately to the challenges brought about by COVID-19, esp...

ON THE GO Blackout in Maiduguri as Boko Haram destroys another electricity tower Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday bombed two transmission towers in Maiduguri, Borno state capital. Advertisement The attack comes about three days after the Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) announced that power... 2023: INEC finalising electronic voting process — 50 companies assessed The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed it is finalising the process of ...

One afternoon in August, just a few days before the fall semester was set to begin, my roommate let out a long sigh. She was gearing up for her first year of grad school at UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, where all of her classes would be virtual. “What if I don’t make any friends?” she asked. The question held more weight than typical first-day-of-school nerves. We had barely left our apartment since March, having had the privilege to work from home since the start of the pandemic. ...

Washington: The average annual cost of educating refugees is less than 5 percent of public education expenditure in developing nations hosting 85 percent of the world’s refugees, according to a joint World Bank – UNHCR report released today.The princ

Insecurity: Violence kills 4, 556 Nigerians in 2020 — Global Rights On As projections for peace, security in Nigeria remain bleak By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja An international rights organization, Global Rights Nigeria, Monday, reported that 4, 556 Nigerians were killed in 2020 as the insecurity situation remains worrisome across the country. The report called ‘Mass Atrocities Report 2020’ was made public by the Country Director, Global Rights Nigeria, Abiodun Baiyewu, at a media briefing,...

As India returns to positive growth, it must think why it can’t remove poverty like China has India must be concerned about loss of economic momentum, and because it isn’t outpacing countries that are nowhere near China in growth & development. TN Ninan 27 February, 2021 8:32 am IST Text Size: A+ Whichever way one looks at it, Xi Jinping’s announcement that China has abolished absolute poverty is an epochal event. From being one of the poorest s...

(RNS) — Here’s the deal. Joe Biden, devout Catholic that he is, accepts his church’s teaching that life begins at conception but would not impose that teaching on anyone else. That’s what he said during his vice-presidential debate with Paul Ryan in 2012, and nothing on the record suggests that he’s changed his mind since. Moreover, running for president in 2019, he abandoned his long-standing support for the so-called Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions under Med...

Modern Diplomacy Published 2 months ago The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$57 million project to help Lao PDR promote sustainable forest management, improve protected area management, and enhance livelihoods opportunities in eight provinces across the country. Project funding comes from the World Bank’s International Development Association, with contributions from the Global Environment Facility and the Canada-World Bank Clean Energy and Forest Climate Facil...

On Thursday night, Penn State’s National Council of Negro Women teamed up with Penn State’s Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity to host “Watch and Learn,” a Zoom session to