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Teachers not footballers' needed by Brazil  - For Brazil, this is saying something. And when Brazilians go to the polls for the first round of the presidential elections this week, one of the main issues will be education. There is a shortage of some 300,000 primary school teachers. At the other end of the education journey there is space for less than 20% of all students in Brazil's highly regarded public universities - the rest pay fees for qualifications of variable quality.

School leavers missing out on university in higher education 'cold spots'  - A study by England's Higher Education Funding Council found that school leavers in many areas - including those with large numbers of middle-class ...

Adoptions rise by 26%, Department for Education figures show  - Hugh Thornberry, Chief executive at Adoption UK , reacted positively to the news: “The increase in adoptions is encouraging as is the news that ...

Tough sell: marketing Uganda to gay travellers  - Uganda is probably the last place a gay holidaymaker would want to visit, but tourism bosses in the east African nation are nevertheless trying to ...

What if high court rejects gay marriage cases?  - A Supreme Court decision to reject calls from all quarters to take up same-sex marriage would allow gay and lesbian couples in 11 more states to get ...

Gay website claims homophobic leafet-drop is part of national campaign against Pride events  - A gay website claims a homophobic leaflet-drop just days ahead of Chester Pride may be part of a national campaign targeting UK Pride events.

Popular Novelist Ken Follett Is a Slightly Unlikely and Certainly Unsung Gay Icon  - Edge of Eternity includes not only Follett's cheerleading for the gay rights movements in the U.K. and the U.S. but the character of a gay rocker as well.

Scots parliament hears call for statutory sex education  - Ryce also stressed the way that understanding is crucial for acceptance of LGBTI people at a young age and SRE education is key to prevent ...

Brisbane's International Lesbian Day returns this weekend  - One of the most popular events on the city's LGBTI calendar, the day run by the Lesbian Health Action Group is open to everyone within the community ...

Gay activists on front line of Hong Kong protests  - ommy Chen, spokesperson for LGBTI rights group Rainbow Action, told GSN it was hard to have an LGBTI movement without democracy. 'The queer ...

Tom and Jerry cartoons carry racism warning  - Tom and Jerry cartoons on television are being accompanied by a warning that they may depict scenes of "racial prejudice". The classic cat and ...

Index ranks Norway tops for well-being of elderly  - The new report devotes special attention to the issue of pensions and their role in helping older people remain active and self-sufficient. It praised ...

Older people 'to contribute almost £25bn to NI economy'  - Research for Northern Ireland's Commissioner for Older People claims that older people will contribute almost £25bn to the local economy over the ...

Anne Sinclair: 'It was a sort of violence … but I've rebuilt my life'  - Anne Sinclair is best known in the UK as the ex-wife of disgraced former IMF ... “The justice was violent ,” Sinclair says, choosing her words with care.

Reports of domestic violence on the up in Sheffield  - She said it is estimated around 16,000 adults and 12,000 children are affected by domestic or sexual abuse or violence in Sheffield every year.

Saudi Arabia warns Yemen violence could threaten global security  - Prince Saud said Yemen's violence "will no doubt extend to threaten stability and security on the regional and international arena that could prove ...

Artists take aim at gun violence  - The persistence of urban gun violence has inspired more than 30 artists from across the country to contribute to Guns in the Hands of Artists, an exhibit ...

Archbishop of Canterbury cancels Lambeth Conference over gay clergy row  - Plans for the Anglican Communion's next Lambeth Conference have reportedly been scrapped amid fears of a boycott from African churches, over gay  ...

A Conservative crusade against poverty should focus on educational failure  - Educational attainment has the largest impact on the likelihood of being in poverty and severely materially deprived as an adult, both in the UK and ...

Experts Say Foodbanks Are Inevitable in the UK  - Food insecurity and malnutrition in the UK is a much wider problem than has been recognised, according to experts from the University of Manchester.

200000 kids in poverty due to the Treasury: how many more will it add?  - In January 2013 the government admitted capping the increase to benefits by just one per cent per year over the following three years would end up ...

Rights body mulls forced sterilization of HIV -positive woman  - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will consider its first case of forced sterilization of a ...

Are censors pandering to homophobia ?  - The Los Angeles Times called it an "unapologetic crowd pleaser of a movie" and the film website Rotten Tomatoes has awarded it a stonking 94 per cent rating, but American censors didn't have quite the same warm glow when viewing the hit British drama Pride.

Domestic violence up as other crimes in Newham fall  -  Domestic violence with injury cases are up 40 per cent compared to last year, to just over 1,000 incidents, while 3,000 domestic abuse without injury ...

MSPs consider sex education law call  - Sexpression: UK said discussions about domestic violence , rape and child abuse should be compulsory from a young age. The call was made as ...

US top court meets to consider taking gay marriage cases  - If the court agrees to take one or more of the cases it has the chance to rule when, if ever, gay men and women in the 31 states that now bar them from ...

I was a page boy in a wedding once.' So So Gay interviews the cast of Altar Boyz  - So So Gay : First of all, tell us what Altar Boyz is about? Jonny: Altar Boyz is a musical following a Catholic boyband on the last night of their 'Raise the ...

Tony Blair: It's very difficult to raise gay rights with anti- gay leaders  - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says it's “very difficult” to raise the subject of gay rights with anti- gay leaders. The ex-Labour leader has spoken of his ...

Leaflets posted through UK doors calling for gays to be killed: But what is going on?  - Hate groups hoping to incite violence against British LGBTI people may be targeting UK pride events. That's what Gay Star News has discovered after ...

7 animal safaris to add to your nature bucket list  - This is one of a series of articles written by Gay Star News in partnership with IFAW to raise awareness of animal welfare within the global LGBTI  ...

Get ready for the biggest gay film event of the year  -  LGBTI film lovers are excited as the Iris Prize is set to begin next week. The world's finest LGBTI filmmakers will gather in Cardiff for the seventh time, ...

Uganda judge received death threats for striking down anti-gay law  - Edwin Sesange, the director of African LGBTI group Out And Proud Diamond, told Gay Star News the judges should 'be proud of themselves for doing ...

Out and proud parenting in Hong Kong  - Rainbow Families Hong Kong was set up by LGBTI parents seeking to connect and network with one another. Two of the parents involved talked to ...