People demonstrate during a strike organized by National Students Union (UNE) in Sao Paulo, on Wednesday. — AFP/VNA Photo RIO DE JANEIRO — Tens of thousands of students and teachers protested across Brazil in "defense of education" on Wednesday in response to a raft of budget cuts announced by President Jair Bolsonaro's government. Classes were suspended in federal universities and secondary schools across Brazil's 27 states in the first nationwide protests against the far-right president since he took office on January 1. Protesters flocked onto the streets in Brazil's biggest cities including Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte, in marches that grew steadily larger as the day wore on. The budget cuts feature a 30 per cent reduction in subsidies paid to state-owned universities. Bolsonaro blasted the protesters as being "useful idiots manipulated by an expert minority that makes up the heart of federal universities in Brazil." He accused leftist militants … [Read more...] about Brazil students, teachers in huge budget cuts protests
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The journey of Việt Nam’s smallest student
Improving: K’Rể has developed some skills after three years at Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School. VNS Photo Hà Nam Viet Nam News Feeling pity for ‘smallest boy in Việt Nam’ who used to live isolated from the outside world, Đặng Văn Cương – the principal of Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School in the central province of Quảng Ngãi – persuaded Đinh Văn K’Rể’s parents to let him attend his school. Over the past three years, he has been treating and teaching K’Rể like his own son. by Hà Nam It’s 6am. As usual, Đặng Văn Cương, the head tearcher of the Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School – a small school in remote Sơn Hà District in the central province of Quảng Ngãi – wakes up and begins his day. His first job of the day is not answering telephone calls or enjoying breakfast, but … [Read more...] about The journey of Việt Nam’s smallest student
The journey of Việt Nam’s mallest student
Improving: K’Rể has developed some skills after three years at Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School. VNS Photo Hà Nam Viet Nam News Feeling pity for ‘smallest boy in Việt Nam’ who used to live isolated from the outside world, Đặng Văn Cương – the principal of Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School in the central province of Quảng Ngãi – persuaded Đinh Văn K’Rể’s parents to let him attend his school. Over the past three years, he has been treating and teaching K’Rể like his own son. by Hà Nam It’s 6am. As usual, Đặng Văn Cương, the head tearcher of the Sơn Ba Primary Boarding School – a small school in remote Sơn Hà District in the central province of Quảng Ngãi – wakes up and begins his day. His first job of the day is not answering telephone calls or enjoying breakfast, but … [Read more...] about The journey of Việt Nam’s mallest student
‘Loner’ student shoots and kills 10 at Texas school
A 17-year-old student dressed in a trench coat and armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his high school outside Houston on Friday, killing nine students and a teacher, before surrendering to officers, authorities said. Santa Fe High School, southeast of Houston, joined a long list of U.S. campuses where students and faculty have been killed in a spray of gunfire. The Texas shooting stoked the nation’s long-running debate over firearms ownership and came about three months after 17 teens and educators were fatally shot in Parkland, Florida. Students said the gunman, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, opened fire in an art class shortly before 8 a.m. Students and staff fled and a fire alarm triggered a full evacuation. Classmates described Pagourtzis as a quiet loner who played on the football team. On Friday, they said, he wore the trench coat to school in Santa Fe, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Houston, on a day when temperatures topped 90 … [Read more...] about ‘Loner’ student shoots and kills 10 at Texas school
Elderly teacher keeps going
Viet Nam News When Võ Thị Son was working, she would teach at a primary school in the morning. Then, in the afternoon she would teach poor children who could not afford schooling, in her home. Võ Thị Son retired ten years ago but she has carried on teaching the poor children in her home. The subjects she teaches are Vietnamese and Mathematics. by Trần Đình Phượng For 71-year-old retired teacher Võ Thị Son, teaching and going to the pagoda every day are important routines to stay healthy and enjoy peace of mind. She has been offering free classes to poor children at her residence — Châu Văn Liêm Ward in Ô Môn District, Cần Thơ City— for over 40 years. Son said she got married and had been living there since the 1970s. As a primary school teacher at the time, she was concerned about the poor children living around her home who could not go to school because their … [Read more...] about Elderly teacher keeps going