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How Northern Ireland MPs voted on accepting child refugees from Europe

Edit Belfast Telegraph 28 Apr 2016
The UK Government was defeated in the House of Lords on the issue of unaccompanied refugee children in Europe being given refuge in the United Kingdom ... Share Go To. However, when it went to the Lords the bill was rejected and returned to the Commons for further consideration ... More ... Labour peer Lord Dubs was one of 669 children who escaped the Holocaust on trains from Prague organised by British stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton ... ....

Profile: Lord Alfred Dubs

Edit BBC News 26 Apr 2016
Labour peer Lord Dubs arrived in the UK in 1939 as a six-year-old refugee fleeing the persecution of Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. He was one of 669 children who escaped the Holocaust on trains from Prague organised by British stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winton ... His mother later came to the UK but his father died, leaving her with "no husband, no money, no family - nothing" ... MPs rejected the amendment ... ....

BJP-Shiv Sena bickering hauling Metro-3 to a dead end

Edit DNA India 17 Mar 2016
-->. Bickering between the ruling partners, BJP and Shiv Sena, is proving too costly for Mumbaikars, who are commuting like in holocaust trains of Germany. In a fresh development, Sena-led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has rejected the proposal to temporarily hand over 17 plots in Mumbai to construct 33.5-km-long Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ underground metro line ... And, this has the backing of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis ... ....

MPs want more teachers to be trained to educate pupils about the Holocaust

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Jan 2016
More teachers should be trained to educate schoolchildren about the Holocaust, a cross-party of group of MPs has said ... Figures from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education show more than 6,000 teachers have take part in its training programmes, ... "Too few teachers - particularly history teachers - are being trained to teach the Holocaust....

MPs call for more teachers to be trained to teach about the Holocaust

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Jan 2016
More teachers should be trained to teach schoolchildren about the Holocaust, a cross-party of group of MPs has suggested ... Figures from the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education show that more than 6,000 teachers have take part in its training programmes, ... "Too few teachers - particularly history teachers - are being trained to teach the Holocaust....

More teachers 'need Holocaust training'

Edit BBC News 24 Jan 2016
The Education Committee says too few teachers in England are being trained to teach the Holocaust ... ....

More teachers 'need Holocaust training', say MPs

Edit BBC News 24 Jan 2016
Too few teachers - particularly history teachers - are being trained to teach the Holocaust in England, the Education Select Committee says. Although good Holocaust teaching material is available, the majority of teachers are "self-taught" with little professional development, MPs say ... "However, too few teachers, particularly history teachers, are being trained to teach the Holocaust and our report calls on the government to act....

Dr. Ruth's 7 Foolproof Tips For A Boredom-Free Bedroom

Edit Huffington Post 12 May 2015
For their birthdays, most people throw a party. Dr. Ruth Westheimer isn't most people. The famed sex therapist will release her new book, The Doctor Is In. Dr. Ruth on Love, Life, and Joie de Vivre on June 2 to commemorate her 87th birthday ... In it, Dr. Ruth talks a lot about her past -- being orphaned by the Holocaust and her training as a sniper in the Haganah paramilitary organization ... Here are just a few good tips.. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... Ruth ... ....

German, Israeli presidents mark 50 years of diplomacy

Edit U~T San Diego 11 May 2015
During the Holocaust the train station was one of the major sites of deportations of Berlin's Jewish community ... During the Holocaust the train station was one of the major sites of deportations of Berlin's Jewish community ... During the Holocaust the train station was one of the major sites of deportations of Berlin's Jewish community....

Undergrads and Graduate Students Mastering Philanthropy Karen and Bruce Levenson $5.6 million gift funds fast-growing center that focuses on philanthropy and nonprofit management

Edit PR Newswire 19 Feb 2015
She joined with Bruce in sponsoring an I Have a Dream Foundation class, has run numerous programs for the Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute and, along with Bruce, sponsors the "Bringing the Lessons Home" program, an initiative that teaches underserved youth the lessons of the Holocaust and trains them to serve as tour guides at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C....

Prime Minister pledges prominent Holocaust Memorial for Britain (British Prime Minister's Office)

Edit noodls 18 Feb 2015
... increasing the accessibility and affordability of teacher training, assisting professional bodies to incorporate lessons from the Holocaust into their training and further advancing the UK's position as a recognised international centre of Holocaust excellence in education, research and study, including through the creation of a professorial chair....

Rialto Unified: After Holocaust assignment, managers get sensitivity training

Edit LA Daily News 08 Aug 2014
In the aftermath of this spring’s controversial Holocaust essay assignment, Rialto Unified School District managers met Thursday to discuss how intolerance and hatred has led to genocides around the world ... At its meeting last week, the committee rolled out a plan to reeducate last year’s eighth-graders on the reality of the Holocaust and train district staff to prevent a similar mistake from happening again.....

Joint Declaration signed by Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the end of(...) (Government of Romania)

Edit noodls 25 Jun 2014
Governments agreed on the importance of academic mobility and expressed interest in cooperating in the new EU program for education and training ERASMUS + ... Holocaust education and commemoration ... Governments agreed to strengthen cooperation in education on the Holocaust by training Romanian teachers at the "Yad Vashem" Insitute and signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministries of Education and Yad Vashem....
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