December 2015 – Page 2

Progress: Rule on priority of primary-level religion classes to go

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 No Comments

Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan is to remove a 50-year old official rule which gives religion classes a privileged status, paving the way for a potential reduction in time spent on faith formation. At present, 30 minutes of each primary school day is allocated to religious education – twice the amount of time devoted to […]

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Equality Middle East

Glacial change

December 7, 2015 No Comments

Only a country as restrictive as Saudi Arabia could come up with such a thing as a progressive move. Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are to be assigned ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Thursday. The changes will allow women to register a child for school, […]

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Life The Press

Do a little something

December 1, 2015 No Comments

The thing is, none of that actually matters. How we feel on Facebook doesn’t matter. How we Tweet what we feel doesn’t matter. Even how we feel in the world doesn’t matter — it’s all useless unless it inspires us to do something. So here are a few things I think will be useful to […]

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Health

A glimmer of hope

December 1, 2015 No Comments

The use of antibiotics exerts a Darwinian selection pressure for acquisition of resistance by the target bacteria, and resistance arising anywhere in the microbial world can ultimately be transferred to disease-causing bacteria. In addition, the antibiotic discovery process is now in terminal decline. The golden age of antibiotics took place in the 1930s to 1970s, […]

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Progress: Rule on priority of primary-level religion classes to go

Glacial change

Do a little something

A glimmer of hope

Month: December 2015

Progress: Rule on priority of primary-level religion classes to go

Glacial change

Do a little something

A glimmer of hope