The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – ...

India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, launched in 1975 and now one of the world's largest community-based initiatives, provides holistic early childhood services to children ...

As the MDGs era comes to a conclusion with the end of the year, 2016 ushers in the official launch of the bold and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by world leaders last ...

The British Council and Cambridge International Education have celebrated Nigeria’s highest-achieving learners at the 2026 British Council Recognition and Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards, BROCLA, ...

Macworld explains how students, parents, and educators can access Apple’s Education Store for 5-15% discounts on Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches across the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada.

Many physicists consider Ed Witten to be Einstein's true successor. A mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Witten has been awarded everything from a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. In 2020, economic activity contracted in 90 percent of countries, the world economy shrank by about 3 percent ...

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Previous work suggests that most clinically significant language difficulties in children do not result from acquired brain lesions or adverse environmental experiences but from genetic factors that ...