Bullying, corporal punishment, gender-based aggression, gang assaults and other types of violence in schools were some of the issues tackled at an expert meeting by UNESCO in Paris last week. The theme of the meeting, which is ‘finding solutions that work’, brought together experts to address the integration of violence prevention strategies in schools into policy and practice. The meeting is a follow-up to the World Report on Violence against Children, and within the framework of the World Programme for Human Rights Education and the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for Children of the World (2001-2010). A group of ...

Funding and fraud are two principle reasons why students are refused visa to study in the United Kingdom, Richard Grozney, British high commissioner to Nigeria has said. Speaking to BusinessDay in Lagos, Grozney said 27, 000 Nigerian students applied for student visa last year but 75 percent were refused. “That refusal rate is far too high that is what we want to get down. We are not too comfortable that we have to say no,” he said. He explained that funding is the amount of money that a student must show that he or she has to keep them in Britain, stressing that ...