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Education After a Crisis

Gates Cambridge Scholars | Posted 23.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Education, War, Post-Conflict Education, UK Impact, Un, Unesco, United Nations, UK Universities & Education News
Gates Cambridge Scholars

Countries which have been through deep trauma and crisis caused by violence and war need to prioritise conflict-sensitive approaches to education, an international meeting heard earlier this month.

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Drinking in the Best of Porto

Gareth Johnson | Posted 19.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Travel, Porto, Portugal, Europe Holidays, Spain, Europe, Unesco, Brazil, UK Lifestyle News
Gareth Johnson

Like much of the Iberian peninsula, northern Portugal has a rich and fascinating history that envelops and engulfs you in every street, in every building, as you climb steps, turn a corner, or look at across the Douro River that swirls and churns through the ancient city of Porto.

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Why My Generation Needs to Understand the Truth About Africa

Jamal Edwards | Posted 15.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Sbtv, Waterberg Welfare Society, SBTV.Com, Unesco, Comic Relief, Africa, HIV Prevention, Red Nose Day, HIV/AIDS Africa, UK Impact, Young Talent, UK Entertainment News
Jamal Edwards

Desperate to save their loved ones, families turned to traditional faith healers, running up huge debts paying for treatment that not only didn't work but was often painful and dangerous. HIV testing wasn't available, and for the few who did know they were infected, there was no support or treatment. People were dying and things seemed beyond hope. And so to people who say that that we shouldn't give aid to Africa because it's not helping, I'd say you're chatting rubbish. I've seen with my own eyes that you're wrong, aid does work. It's real and it's making a massive difference.

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Oscar Niemeyer - Ahead of the Curve

Ana Tzarev | Posted 09.02.2013 | Home
Read More: Design, Oscar Niemeyer, Architecture, Love & Peace, Art, Human Spirit, Unesco, Home News
Ana Tzarev

I believe Art is where the Divine and The Human meet. It is the embodiment of the human spirit. Oscar Niemeyer - the wonderful Brazilian architect wh...

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Young Female Apprentices Earning 20% Less Than Men

PA | Posted 16.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Apprenticeships, Women, Equality, Student Jobs, UK News, Pay Gap, Unesco, Sexism, Gender Pay Gap, UK Lifestyle, UK Universities & Education News

Young female apprentices earn up to a fifth less than their male peers, according to a new report. It suggests apprenticeships are also more likely...

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Education for All and Not Just for Some

Pauline Rose | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Education, Education Reform, Education Policy, Ban Ki-Moon, Gordon Brown, UK Impact, Education Poverty, Unesco, UK Universities & Education News
Pauline Rose

We are all too aware of the necessity for there to be more vigour and energy behind goals targeted at giving all children access to a free primary education. We are also aware of how important it is that additional resources, such as the new ambition behind 'Education First', are put towards helping the disadvantaged and most in need, first.

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Premium Travel in... Alta Badia, Italy

Raj Gill | Posted 15.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: La Palsa, Glasgow, Natural Park, Andrea Irsara, Pio Canins, Barbara Burger, Maso Runch, Pisciadu via Ferrata, Unesco, Edelweiss Valley, South Tyrolean Dolomites, Alta Badia, Margareth Canins, Verona, Gran Ander, Dolomites, Gatwick, Lagacio Mountain Residence, Badia Village, Boe Peak, Gourmet Hotel, Ayurvedic, World Natural Heritage Site, Puez Odles, Ladin, Pressknodel, Arunda, Pedraces, Nagler, Bolzano, UK Lifestyle News
Raj Gill

Getting to Lagacio Mountain Residence might have taken me all day in travelling but it was definitely worth the trek. I flew from Glasgow to Gatwick, Gatwick to Verona. From Verona Airport I caught a cab to the train station, where I caught a train to Bolzano, a two hour journey.

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Could The Titanic Wreck Become An Underwater Museum?

PA | Posted 14.06.2012 | UK
Read More: Katie Melua, Belfast, UK News, Unesco, Titanic, Museums UK Culture, Titanic Belfast, Canada, UK News

The wreck of the Titanic could become an underwater museum, its discoverer said. Footage of the doomed vessel from 4,000m under the ocean off the c...

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Watching the Kopeks in Paris

Ella Krasner | Posted 26.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: British Fashion Council, Forest Whitaker, John Rocha, 10 Downing Street, Vivienne Westwood, 11 Downing Street, Chez L'Ami Louis, L'Avenue, Unesco, Sir Philip Green, Mcqueen, Mary J Blige, Louis Vuitton, Matthew Williamson, Chanel, La Villa, Samantha Cameron, Matisse, London Fashion Week, Kitchen Joel Antunes, Antonia Berardi, Hermes, Alain Ducasse Au Plaza Athenee, David Cameron, Hotel Plaza Athenee, Anna Wintour, Birkin Bag, Costes, International Institute for Peace, Valentino, UK Lifestyle News
Ella Krasner

After the trauma of missing Couture Week, I stayed on for a few days in Paris to browse the cruise collections with my friends Svetlana and Masha.

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Israel Withholds $100m Of Palestinian Revenue

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 16.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, UK News, Oslo Accord, Unesco, Israel, UK News

Israeli Cabinet ministers have decided to keep withholding around $100m in monthly tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority, in what is being se...

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A Letter to Obama and Sarkozy

Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Benjamin Netanyahu, Overheard, g20, Unesco, Microphones, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, UK Politics News
Caroline Argyropulo-Palmer

Dear Sarko and Barack, I know you're both having a bad day, what with people talking about how you badmouthed a fellow world leader when you thought your microphones were off and all, but I wanted to tell you that last week, on a train, I spoke to my boyfriend about someone I know. And I wasn't very nice.

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Sarkozy Calls Israeli PM A 'Liar' ... And Other Microphone Mishaps

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Palestine, George Bush, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, UK News, Funny Video, Sarkozy, Ronald Reagan, Unesco, Obama, Political, Video Slideshow, Mistake, Israel, News, Barack Obama, Microphone Gaffe, UK News

Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in a private conversation with Barack Obama, according to an exchange overhe...

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Israel Speeds Up Settlement Construction In Response To Palestinian Admission To Unesco

The Guardian | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Palestinian Authority, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, West Bank, Israel, Unesco, East Jerusalem, UK News

Israel is to expedite the construction of about 2,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in response to the Palestinians'...

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Why the UNESCO Membership is About More Than Palestinian Independence

Joel Braunold | Posted 01.01.2012 | UK
Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Statehood, Israel, Unesco, UK, Two State Solution, UK World, UK Politics, Un, UK News
Joel Braunold

More than any other UN agency, UNESCO has the ability to further this conflict by reclassifying different sites in the West Bank to ignore their Jewish heritage. If they do this, they will make the painful compromises that the Jews of Israel need to make even harder to get to.

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Priceless Libyan Treasures Including 7,000 Ancient Coins Stolen From Bank Vault

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Stolen-Antiques, Libya, Arab Spring, UK News, Historical Artifacts, Unesco, Benghazi, Alexander the Great, Libya Uprising, UK News

A priceless collection of more than 7,000 ancient coins and other irreplaceable artefacts have been found missing from a bank vault in the eastern Lib...

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Unesco Admits Palestinians As Members Despite US Funding Threat

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Palestine, UNESCO Funding, United States, Un, Israel, Unesco, United Nations, UK News

Unesco has become the first United Nations agency to accept a Palestinian bid for full membership. The General Conference vote at the agency's Pari...

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Can a gold mine save a village?

Kirk Leech | Posted 30.11.2011 | Home
Read More: World Heritage, Alburnus Maior, Gold, Rosia Montana, Unesco, Archeology, Romania, Gold Mines, Home News
Kirk Leech

Since antiquity Romania has been home to Europe's richest gold mines but after millennia of drilling much of the easily available gold has gone. As recently as 1989 one in ten of the population relied on gold for their livelihoods; today just 50,000 work the mines.

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