School Abandon Among Minorities in Romania

by Monique Barb - School abandon meaning : leaving school at an early age, leaving school before the final exams, difficulties in learning, failure in exams at different levels etc, represents an important problem of the Romanian system of education due to the profound implications in the social community life in which the minorities live. The notion of „School abandon” is used in the sen ...

Date added: 20 October '06

Is Anyone in Britain Really Poor

by Herminne Tonita - There is no agreement on how to define poverty. The word at one extreme evokes pictures of starving African children or Dickensian novels. In our wealthy, developed country, can people be described as really poor? There is no official definition of poverty in Britain, although various sets of statistics are collected that are regarded by some as a way of measuring it. Th ...

Date added: 01 May '07