Labour conference: non-members to get vote in leadership elections
Labour has agreed that if national and local parties can recruit more than 50,000 registered supporters, this will trigger these supporters being given 3% of the electoral college. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Registered Labour supporters, will be given 3% to 10% of the vote at the next Labour leadership election under proposals More...
Child Sexual Abuse Growing In Cameroon, Study Says
(VOA) Researchers from the Cameroon branch of the international NGO The School as an Instrument of Peace, or EIP in French, say the figure shows the scale of the problem nationwide. It reinforces the findings of More...
Putting sleeping sickness on the radar
It is the start of an invasion. There are no gunfire or explosions, just the mundane tickle of a fly landing on your skin. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this moment can be just as deadly as bombs and guns if that tickle More...
Universities minister defends higher education reforms
There are three clear lines of attack on the government’s higher education reforms that I have seen, not least on the pages of Education Guardian. The first claim is that we are removing the public subsidy More...
Higher education funding rises around the world
At a time when governments are grappling with shrinking public budgets, most are still choosing to invest in higher education, according to a new report. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s More...
