Topic: Demography

An extra 350,000 primary school places reportedly will be needed by 2015 due to a surge in the number of four-year-olds, just as education spending...

Muslims Dispute Census Figures

Muslim leaders have asked the government to cancel the 2009 census results.. . In a statement read by the Jamia Mosque religious convernor, Mr...

Coming to grips with an ageing society

WHO says age is just a number? We celebrated Malaysia's 53rd year of independence on Tuesday. On the scale of political history, we are a young...

Report estimates 45,000 illegal immigrants in Neb

A new nationwide report estimates Nebraska is home to 45,000 illegal immigrants. The data released this week by the Pew Hispanic Center says ...

Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth

Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers ...

Primary schools short of 350,000 places

Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has been told by Whitehall officials that a surge in the birth rate has increased demand for places by about...
US nonfarm payroll employment changed little (-54,000) in August, and the unemployment rate was about unchanged at 9.6%, the US Bureau of Labor...
Filed under: Work, Weird News, School. Out of a job, can't find a job, or really want to quit the job you've been slaving away at, without a raise...
As the world population continues to expand at a tremendous pace, investors have begun to see the impact of this growth on a host of finite...
By mining data from the 2000 Census, Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld figured out the rates at which kids raised by gay and straight couples...