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RSS age childWere Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis From 1915 to 1939
White Paper The results show that legally requiring a child to attend school for one more year, either by increasing the age required to obtain a work permit or by lowering the entrance age, increased educational attainment by about 5%. [03 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has had its ups and downs since it launched the first version of its laptop. Other people use it in the context of a government that has a heavy-handed approach to dealing with personal privacy in the age of... [23 May 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. Coppa, which went into effect in 1999, requires that websites ask for parental... [10 Apr 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment Carphone now has a website that shows customers a warts-and-all view of his broadband business, a step-child that his customer services team didn't want in the family at first. He recalled less-than-complementary blogs from customers slating his... [13 Mar 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment Microsoft realises that the needs for a child of a goat herder in the Andes is going to be a little different to those of an inner-city slum child in Mumbai. The software giant accepts that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), Intel's Classmate PC and... [07 Feb 2008]
Stories of the year
News But one of the biggest stories of 2007 - and not just in the tech world - turned up in October when two password-protected CDs containing the records of 25 million child benefit recipients were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC... [14 Dec 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Although there are no data breach notification laws in the UK at the moment, HM Revenue & Customs is probably kicking itself over not encrypting the two CDs containing the details of 25 million child benefit recipients that got lost in the post. [28 Nov 2007]
NHS hearing testers to get improved data transfer
News Research has shown that if hearing impaired children start receiving care before they are six months of age, they will have the same developmental and educational outcomes as a child with normal hearing. [21 Nov 2007]
Egyptian MoE Raises Standards and Promotes Social Inclusion by Ensuring Every Child Has Access to ICT
White Paper With one in three Egyptians under the age of 14, huge potential exists for young people to benefit from new technology and enter the workforce equipped with IT skills. The Ministry of Education in Egypt (MoE) wanted to improve the delivery of... [06 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment I feel that if I ever lose that wonderment a child feels every time they discover something new, I too will join the army of those who seem to have given up and become an impediment to progress. The masters are now barely five years older than the... [29 Oct 2007]
Online Investing Hacks: Balance Risk and Return for College Costs
White Paper However, stocks are risky for the short term, so one must move the savings into safer investments as the child gets closer to college age. With college tuition soaring, parents who want to pay for their kids' education need as much help as they can... [17 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.07.07
Round-Up Exhibit A: The Weekly Round-Up - a child of the internet, veteran of the dot-com bubble, refugee of the browser wars and part of the generation which dreads the annual Christmas question from elderly relatives, 'So, what is the internet? [27 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a human or computer?
Comment I wanted to open a bank account for her and also put her Child Trust Fund voucher to work. It's a £250 voucher every child gets at birth, going into an account - either shares or cash, am I sounding like an IFA? [21 Mar 2007]
Can corporate giving bridge the digital divide?
Comment Helen Judson, who manages the Digital Schoolhouse project, says: "We provide a state-of-the-art classroom with 30 PCs so every child in the room gets one-to-one with the computer. To that end the company also works closely with Age Concern. [24 Aug 2006]
How can we keep kids safe with their mobiles?
News The average age for a UK child to get its first mobile has now fallen to eight. The consultation will close in October, by which time the Commission hopes to have input from the mobile industry as well as child safety groups and regulators. [26 Jul 2006]
