The most recent lockdown and school closures have, once again, thrown educational provision in England into crisis. Nearly a full year of disruption of schooling will have had a serious effect on children s education. The outgoing children s commissioner, Anne Longfield, has called for children to be at the heart of the recovery from COVID-19 .
Obinwanne Okeke (Invictus)
An international fraudster, Obinwanne Okeke better known as Invictus, who was once listed on the Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 will on Tuesday (today) be sentenced by a Virginia Court in the United States.
Okeke, who was on August 6, 2019 arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, later pleaded guilty to two charges of Internet fraud in the US that caused $11m losses to his victims. He risks a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail.
The defendant who had investments in oil and gas, agriculture, private equity, alternative energy, telecom and real estate had operated his holdings under the ‘Invictus Group’ and had presence in three countries including Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia.
Death of a promotion: The ticking time bomb of working from home
15 Feb, 2021 12:55 AM
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Dealing with kids isn t the only issue facing parents who work from home. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Pilita Clark
Once the Covid crisis eases, the working week will be pleasantly transformed for millions of employees into an agreeable mix of a few days in the office and a few at home. Or so I thought until last week, when I spoke to Nicholas Bloom, an award-winning British economist at Stanford University whose eye-grabbing research on working from home began years before the pandemic.
Author: Martin Myers
(MENAFN - The Conversation) In 2020, the pandemic has made homeschooling a fact of life. Even before this, though, what was once the obscure choice of a few families has grown in popularity over the past decade. In 2019, the Children s Commissioner for England estimated that around 60,000 children were homeschooled.
A persistent concern over homeschooling as a result of COVID-19 has been that it is causing new inequalities in children s education . The closure of schools means children s learning has relied increasingly on their family s social and domestic circumstances. The pandemic has shown that the poorest families in the UK do not have access to the resources necessary to educate children at home.
Nadia Bokody:Tying masculinity to sexual performance is a dangerous mistake
13 Feb, 2021 09:55 PM
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Nadia Bokody says tying masculinity to sexual performance is a dangerous mistake. Photo / Supplied
NZ Herald
OPINION:
I once dated a guy who put his hand around my neck while we were having sex.
Not in an attempt to cause me harm, but because – as he later revealed – he d seen it performed in porn, and assumed I d be into it.
What was most striking about this encounter, was the fact he didn t ask me if I d like it first, because he was afraid of looking inept. It s a sentiment I hear again and again from male readers – that they don t talk to their partners in the bedroom because they ve been taught men should instinctively know what they re doing and be largely unemotional.