The Responsibilities of Parents and the Rights of Autistic Children

The Responsibilities of Parents and the Rights of Autistic Children

By Linda Nwoke  Alexa is a bright and imaginative seven-year-old girl living in her creative world. A world that includes her and shuts most people out, characterized by complex social interactions even with her immediate family members. Alexa finds it challenging to make friends and does not understand social cues, like facial expressions and body […]

Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

Black and Brown Kids Should Attend Charter Schools

By Linda Nwoke Editorial credit: Darwin Brandis / Shutterstock.com Every child deserves an education, yet it is more critical for children from black and brown communities than others because they are more likely to live in poverty, attend underfunded and understaffed schools, and be more likely to be expelled or suspended from school. In 2020, […]

Five important things you should have learned in sex ed – but probably didn’t

Five important things you should have learned in sex ed – but probably didn’t

By Joel Abrams If you grew up in the 90s and 00s, you may feel that sex education didn’t teach you much of practical value. Most sex education during this time followed a “prevention” approach, focusing on avoiding pregnancy and STIs, with most information largely targeted at heterosexual people. While some schools are now making […]

The UWI named among winners of the Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Awards

The UWI named among winners of the Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Awards

A collaborative project undertaken by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (FS) to support MSMEs through upskilling and digitalization, was announced as a winner of the 2022 Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Awards. In 2021, The UWI and FS […]

Connecting Caribbean -opportunities for broadcasting and streaming

Connecting Caribbean -opportunities for broadcasting and streaming

UNESCO cordially invites you to join the online event Connecting Caribbean: broadcasting diversity, streaming integration on 30 March 2023, from 9:00 am to 12:45 pm (Kingston time, GMT – 5). The event, framed within the UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, funded by the European Union, […]

St. Lucia gets 200 Commonwealth scholarships for YEA’s Digital Skills project

St. Lucia gets 200 Commonwealth scholarships for YEA’s Digital Skills project

The recently launched Youth Economy Agency, more commonly known as (YEA), has recorded its first week in office with eleven (11) loans and grants given to young entrepreneurs across the island. The agency, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat also took the opportunity to launch an all-new Digital Skills Training project targeting the nation’s youth. […]

‘There’s Only So Far I Can Take Them’ – Why Teachers Give Up on Struggling Students Who Don’t Do Their Homework

‘There’s Only So Far I Can Take Them’ – Why Teachers Give Up on Struggling Students Who Don’t Do Their Homework

By Jessica Calarco and Ilana Horn, The Conversation Whenever “Gina,” a fifth grader at a suburban public school on the East Coast, did her math homework, she never had to worry about whether she could get help from her mom. “I help her a lot with homework,” Gina’s mother, a married, mid-level manager for a […]

Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

Harvard Names Claudine Gay 30th President

Photo: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer By harvard.edu Claudine Gay, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1. Since 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the University’s largest […]

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