More than 20 million children and adolescents aged between 12 and 17 experienced at least one form of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse across 21 countries during a single year, according to
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation, Lal Kantha, delivered a sharp and unprecedented critique of a Buddhist monk in Mihintale, accusing him of moral hypocrisy and obstruction of national
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The Most Venerable Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Thero, Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter of the Siam Nikaya, has openly questioned the current Sri Lankan government’s ability to implement effective educational reforms, describing
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by Durga Velayudham This is not a trivial misstep. It is a criminal irresponsibility to toy with children and their futures. These political games are played at the expense of the poor.
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The Trump administration has been sending some unaccompanied migrant teens to a secure juvenile detention center in southeast Pennsylvania that has a long-documented history of abuse, according to a Washington Post investigation.
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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya admitted to senior Buddhist leaders that a serious error occurred in the country’s new Grade 6 English module, which included a reference to a questionable website.
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As artificial intelligence spreads into children’s toys, experts are warning that the latest generation of connected plushies and smart gadgets could come at a high cognitive, emotional and privacy cost. During the
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A recent study published in Nature sheds light on a concerning trend in global mathematics education: the failure to support some of the world’s most talented children, particularly those from lower-income families.
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucious International Day of Education falls on 24 January each year. Under the theme “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency
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About 85,000 women and girls across the globe were killed intentionally in 2023, with 60 percent of the homicides committed by intimate partners or other family members, according to a report released
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The actual cause of the climate crisis is the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere since the start of the industrial revolution. But the proximate cause—the underlying activity that sparked the climate crisis and
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