Ireland was ranked as only average in terms of adult literacy and numeracy, according to international studies published this morning by the OECD and by the Central Statistics Office. While our performance in literacy is improving, numeracy remains unacceptably weak and Ireland has lower than average skills when it comes to using new technology to solve…
Mexican teachers demonstrate against reforms on anniversary of 1968 student massacre. Thousands of teachers and students have blocked Mexico City’s main thoroughfares during rush hour to honour victims of a 1968 massacre, while pledging to fight to undo an overhaul of the education system. On October 1, hundreds of Mexican teachers staged a new…
Education authorities in Seoul, South Korea, banned corporal punishment at all schools in the capital last week. Teachers there are now prohibited from all forms of corporal punishment, including ordering students to do push-ups, run, hold their arms straight above their heads, and walk in a squatting position called a “ducks’ walk,” said Chung Young-chul,…
Somalia Go 2 School This month the authorities in Somalia launched the Go 2 School programme in the capital Mogadishu and simultaneously in the main cities of Somaliland and Puntland. Supported by the UN children’s agency UNICEF at a cost of $117m (£75m) campaign is aimed at getting one million more children into schools. After…
