After the recent report by The Children’s Society that a quarter of 14-year-old girls have self-harmed, many campaigners have called for the root causes of the adolescent mental health crisis to be tackled – rather than just firefighting the symptoms. Plus...
There is a common perception that students represent the elite, and so cannot possibly suffer from hunger. But this is a myth. In fact, the available evidence suggests that students are more likely to be food insecure – they are not able to access adequate nutritious food on a daily basis – than others in the general population. Plus...
OSOSS - Crisis / Response
Interesting chart of the history of Slashdot's various responses over the years to the problems of popularity. With tens of thousands of members, and consequently, a deluge of posts to sort through, Slashdot has increasingly distributed the task of sorting and filtering reader submissions. More...
L’emploi n’a jamais été autant d’actualité. La crise économique et financière qui touche l’ensemble des pays d’Europe depuis 2008 a conduit à une hausse massive du chômage remettant en cause le fonctionnement des marchés du travail. Plus...
Taiwanese higher education has gone from elite to universal enrollment within only few decades. More...
Plus de la moitié des enfants non-scolarisés dans le monde vivent dans des pays touchés par des crises. Rien que pour les situations de conflits, l’UNICEF estime que plus de 25 millions d’enfants dans 22 pays affectés par les conflits sont hors des écoles. Plus...
By Doug Lederman. In the case of the Citadel, the answer was 14 minutes, which was the length of an entire event -- some of which was captured in photographs that went worldwide in a matter of moments -- in which a group of student cadets sang Christmas carols while wearing pointy white pillowcases with eyeholes on their heads, evoking the Ku Klux Klan. More...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Depuis 2011 l'Afpa perd autour de 100, 150 M € tous les ans, cette situation est grave. Les Gréta expliquent 1/5 de la baisse du CA de l'Afpa. Le reste a été pris par les OF privés. Plus...
With all the recent news on opioid overuse in the U.S., it’s not surprising that Americans consume the vast majority of the global opioid supply. Daily opioid use in the U.S. is the highest in the world, with an estimated one daily dose prescribed for every 20 people. That rate is 50 percent higher than in Germany and 40 times higher than in Japan. More...
Colleges in Crisis
I haven't really followed this side of the equation in OLDaily, concentraing instead mainly on the use of technology in learning. But over the last year I've seen dozens of stories of this ilk: tuitions rising, colleges closing or merging, the system in growing disarray. More...
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