Blood scanner to stamp out impersonation
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An infra-red scan showing blood coursing through the veins of the hand is the latest attempt by business schools to stamp out impersonation among prospective master of business administration (MBA) candidates. From next year, 250,000 applicants taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) will have to undergo a palm-vein scan to establish their identity.
Trials have [...]
Dyslexic student’s exams battle
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A medical student with dyslexia is to take legal action in a bid to prevent the use of multiple choice exams as part of doctors’ training. Naomi Gadian, 21, claims the use of the tests discriminates against people with the condition and is challenging the General Medical Council to scrap them. The second year student [...]
Teachers leader attacks greedy parents
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A breakdown in family life has led to schools having to cope with a generation of children with few moral values, a teachers’ leader warned yesterday. Philip Parkin, the general secretary of Voice, the union formerly known as the Professional Association of Teachers, said that parenting skills were declining “as one generation succeeds another”.
As a [...]
An arresting presence in the classroom
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One of the first schools to have a police officer stationed on site was George Green, a 1,300-pupil comprehensive on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets, east London. PC Duncan Evans became the first police officer in east London to work from an office in a school.
He dealt with a range of issues and [...]
Kennedy Returns Home To Recuperate From Brain Surgery
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After recovering for a week from brain surgery, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was released from the hospital Monday.
Doctors for the 76 year-old Massachusetts Democrat are pleased with Kennedy’s progress since his June 2 operation, and he will continue to recuperate at his Hyannis Port home before starting radiation treatments and chemotherapy, according to a statement [...]
Wb Approves Grant For Burkina Faso Health, Education Project
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The World Bank on Thursday approved a grant and credit in 20 million U.S. dollars for health and education projects in the Republic of Burkina Faso.
The amount consists of 15 million dollars in additional grants for the Health Sector Support and Multisectoral AIDS project and a5-million-dollar credit for the International Institute for Water and Environmental [...]
Mini Health Fair Finds Major Diabetes Problem Among Marshallese
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The health education department for the Jones Center for Families, collaborated with area providers to bring the side-event to the annual event in Springdale. Over the Memorial Holiday weekend, hundreds of Marshall Islanders, residing in Arkansas and across the U.S., came to commemorate the 29th anniversary of their homeland’s constitution and welcome Republic of the [...]
Fewer High School Students Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana
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Fewer high school students were smoking cigarettes and marijuana in 2007 than in 2001, with one in four smoking pot and one in five puffing on cigarettes, a youth survey released Wednesday shows.
Teens’ use of tobacco in their lifetime fell to 46 percent from 62 percent and marijuana use dropped to 41 percent, down from [...]
United Way Has New Goals For Education
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The president of the United Way of America announced plans this week to steer money over the next 10 years toward programs related to education, income and health care.
That’s already being done at the United Way of Central Oklahoma, the local organization’s president said Friday from Washington, where he was meeting with elected officials from [...]
High Risk Sexual Behaviour Under Scrutiny
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Scrutinize is a new series of short, animated commercials called animerts based on the realities of life in South Africa that place young people at risk of HIV infection.
The series, aimed at 18 to 32-year-olds, uses animated township characters to communicate with its target group. These characters are placed in everyday situations to illustrate the [...]
