It’s Britain’s “first major study of online pornography” use, The Independent reports. One in four UK adults – 9 million men, 1.4 million women - downloaded pornographic images last year, “making Britain the fastest-growing market in the world for the booming £20 billion [about $37 billion] adult Web site industry.” The Independent says the 9 million figure – up from 2 million in 2000 - is about 40%…
Students from sub-Saharan Africans seeking higher education are the most mobile in the world, with one out of 16 studying abroad, according to a new study carried out by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). By contrast, only one out of every 250 North American students goes overseas for higher studies, which the UNESCO Institute for Statistics considers as the ‘least mobile group.’ Published in the Institute?s Global Education Digest 2006, the report presents the latest education statistics from primary to tertiary levels in more than 200 countries. UN News, 31 May 2006
Research involving more than 7,000 older women found that those who drink a moderate amount of alcohol have slightly higher levels of mental function than non-drinkers, particularly in verbal abilities, …
Chile’s chief of police sacked the head of his special forces on Wednesday amid rising public indignation over the unit’s use of force after officers beat and tear gassed student demonstrators to quell a …
You may have already registered for Fall classes, but there is still time to add and drop courses. If you’re considering applying to medical school, there are a range of…
Mark Zuckerberg, you disappoint me. When you first started, you were just a Harvard student looking for an easier way to get to know your classmates. Now that you are a big-time CEO living in Silicon Valley, you seem to have forgotten the roots that guided the work of your original creation. If you do not know Mark, he is the creator of Facebook.com.
The number of students who do not finish high school or earn equivalency degrees but continue on to college has increased substantially during the past four years, and the practice is creating the possibility of a two-tiered U.S. education system that once again ignores serious problems when it comes to teaching Americas youth.
