Suspected gang leader held in Mexico
A suspected gang leader has been arrested in Mexico by the Federal Police. Eduardo Sanchez Zuniga is the suspected leader of the Los Cabezas de Puerco (Hog Heads) gang – […]
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Five-a-day ‘integral to child development’
The development of literacy skills and achievement of other important milestones for children is reliant on the consumption of five portions of fruit and vegetables per day, a new study […]
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Mexican police force resigns
The town of Ascension in the Mexican state of Chihuahua has been thrown into disarray after all 26 officers in the police force resigned. BBC News reported Mayor Jamie Dominguez […]
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Child literacy improvement methods offered by think tank
Parents have been offered a series of suggestions by the independent think tank CentreForum on how to improve the literacy levels of their children. The first recommendation was to sit […]
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Venezuelan minister suggests Unasur literacy programme
Improving literacy levels, perhaps by providing books for young readers, has been highlighted by Venezuela's foreign minister Nicolas Maduro as an area that the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) […]
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Mexican 15-year-old sentenced to three years in jail
Edgar 'El Ponchis' Jimenez Lugo has received a three-year prison sentence after being convicted of beheading four people as an assassin for the South Pacific Cartel. He has only just […]
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UK child literacy stats published by DoE
Official statistics relating to child literacy in the UK have been unveiled by the Department of Education, with figures improving overall. The number of pupils achieving the expected Level 4 […]
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Hitman ‘El Diego’ could be extradited following arrest
A hitman who once organised a killing outside a children's party in Mexico could face being extradited to the US after being caught by officials. Jose Antonio 'El Diego' Acosta […]
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NAPE representative calls for collective curriculum decision-making
The contents of a school's curriculum should be the result of a collective decision-making process that takes into account the views of a variety of stakeholders. This is the opinion […]
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