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                                These wonderful quotes remind us of the most precious gifts we could ever get in our lives – our children. Each child is unique and he/she deserves to be treated with full respect and an enormous amount of love and understanding. Starting with the family, which should provide his/her safe base, continuing with the local community and all the way up to the global level, where the whole mankind should unite in one of the most important goals – to create a world which would fit the child and suit his/her needs.              We should all act in the best interest of children, while promoting children's rights and protecting them from violence and any other kind of abuse. We should always make sure that each child is listened to and fully respected. As full-fledged right holders, children should have the effective access to j...

  Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to 'plagiarize' means: to steal and pass of (the ideas or words of another) as one's own, to use (another's production) without crediting the source, to commit literary theft, or to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. Therefore, it can be considered as an act of fraud because it is completely unethical: you are stealing someone else's intellectual property and even intend to derive some benefits for yourself out of it. Plagiarism usually involves using words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own, or republishing one's own previously submitted work and presenting it as new, or presenting one's work without referencing the earlier work. Plagiarism undermines academic and research integrity and should not be tolerated in academic circles. In most cases, it happens when students d...

  Under the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic, teachers need to rethink their assessment strategy and shift from closed-books and time-limited examinations done in-class to online or remote assessment. The pandemic has clearly accelerated the transition to virtual teaching and learning, so the same follows for assessment. It is important to keep in mind that students' performance, marks and final degree classification depend on assessment and teachers have to set up fair assessments in line with learning outcomes   in this new online environment. Meanwhile, this change from in-class to online assessment will inevitably create some extra work and both teachers and students will face a number of challenges. Online assessments are online exams conducted with the purpose of evaluating, measuring, and documenting the academic readiness, learning progress, skill acquisition or educational needs of students. These exams are conducted over the Internet by using available web...

  This   phrase   is the notion that to be fit and healthy   you   need to   eat  proper food.   Food is one of the most important factors in our overall health. The food we eat literally becomes who we are, and influences our physical, mental and even emotional well-being. We are what we eat   because each food   we   choose   is   a collection of molecules of information-messages to the body.   We   digest or breakdown the food into smaller units to help “run the operations” of the body. In essence,   what is   put into the body   is what the body will use in the construction and replacement of its cells, hormones and neurotransmitters. Therefore, food is like a real 'fuel' to our body. Unfortunately, o ur modern diet has become more and more intolerable to our natural state of being, where many illnesses and diseases in the body are coming from what we eat and our general lifestyle. What we ...

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Covid-19 as a pandemic that has posed a contemporary threat to humanity. Among other things, this pandemic has forced schools and universities all over the world to switch to online teaching and learning as the only sustainable educational platform at this time of the crisis caused by the global spread of the Covid-19 virus. Although online learning is not a novel discovery and it has been implemented in many schools, colleges and universities ever since 1980s, it has always been viewed from the perspective of good-to-have alternative but not a serious-mission model that guarantees consistency and steadiness of the instructional process at all levels of education. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced schools to close their doors and switch all instructional activities to online learning platforms as part of measures to maintain social distancing and slow down the transmission of Covid-19. Evidently, this has caused unexpected disrupt...