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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — After months of anticipation and a sustained publicity blitz, Prince Harry’s autobiography “Spare” finally went on sale in his native UK on Tuesday, threatening more embarrassment for the royal family. Some UK stores opened late for the midnight release of the biggest royal book since Harry’s mother Princess Diana collaborated with Andrew Morton for “Diana: Her True Story” in 1992. The publication has been accompanied by four television interviews in […]
by Jay Deshmukh and Qubad Wali Agence France-Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Tuesday banned university education for women nationwide, as the hardline Islamists continue to crush their right to education and freedom. Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives, ignoring international outrage. “You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Harvard University named Claudine Gay, a dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, as its new president on Thursday, the first African American to hold the post at the prestigious university. Gay, 52, is just the second woman to be elected to head the school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard said that Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, will take over as the university’s 30th president on July 1, […]
by Joe JACKSON Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The first three episodes of a docuseries on Prince Harry and his wife Meghan air on Thursday, with expectations of more damaging claims about British royal family life. The six-part fly-on-the-wall documentary, “Harry and Meghan”, promises to lift the lid on events that prompted the pair to quit royal life and move to the United States in 2020. Trailers aired in the run-up to the […]
by Thibault MARCHAND Agence France-Presse POKROVSKÉ, Ukraine (AFP) — Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favorite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair and can recite by heart the poem given by her schoolteacher. But with lessons taking place at home to the background sound of gunfire and shelling, this is no ordinary first day back at school for the nine-year-old Ukrainian. Sitting behind a desk in the middle of her sitting room, […]
by Aysha Safi Agence France Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Days after the Taliban staged a cruel U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school, Adeeba Haidari feels as if she is in prison. The 13-year-old was one of thousands of jubilant girls who flocked back to secondary schools reopening across the country on Wednesday, for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August. But just hours into classes, the education ministry […]
By Meliza Maluntag Contributor (Eagle News) — After two years of lockdown due to the Covid pandemic, New Era University (NEU) in Quezon City received a courtesy visit from the ambassador of the Czech Republic, Her Excellency Jana Šedivá, the first ever European envoy to visit the school. Ambassador Šedivá said she was honored and happy to visit NEU which she had heard so much about, even before the pandemic. “I would like to […]
by Jitendra JOSHI Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Britain’s government on Thursday stoked controversy by issuing new schools guidance that urges teachers to avoid “contested” areas in history, anti-racism and climate change. The guidance, which singles out the activist group Black Lives Matter, comes with Prime Minister Boris Johnson fighting for his political survival and accused of trying to distract voters’ attention by pushing an “anti-woke” agenda. Citing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the […]
(Eagle News) – The New Era University announced a university-wide recovery break from Monday, January 17, to Saturday, January 22, in connection with the Commission on Higher Education’s earlier pronouncement on various schools’ initiatives to go on academic break amid the surge in COVID-19 cases. In an announcement on Friday, January 14, 2022, NEU said that the Jan. 17 to 22 “recovery break” would be implemented in all levels and in all branches of […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — India and its neighbours should fully reopen schools to address the interrupted education of more than 400 million children whose classrooms were shut by the coronavirus pandemic, UNICEF said Thursday, with a top official warning the consequences could last decades. Schools in Bangladesh were closed for almost 18 months, one of the longest closures in the world, the UN children’s agency said, while schools in other South Asian countries were […]
BEIJING. China (AFP) — China passed a law Saturday to limit the pressure on children from homework and after-school tutoring, state media said, as the country reforms its ultra-competitive education system. The government has imposed several rules in recent months aimed at combating activities it considers harmful to the development of China’s youth. Beijing has already banned minors from playing online games for more than three hours a week in an effort to tackle […]
(Eagle News) – New Era University (NEU) was one of two schools that ranked no. 1 in the Professional Regulation Commission’s list of top performing schools in the country based on the results of the latest Real Estate Appraisers Licensure Examination. The PRC said that NEU garnered 100 percent passing rate in the September 2021 Real Estate Appraiser Licensure Examination, along with another school, the Cronasia Foundation College Inc., in General Santos City. All the […]
