In prisons especially – where many prisoners have had spasmodic or non-existent education outside – books are a way to understanding, to thought, to empathy, to finding the richness of life.
Meanwhile government funding and foreign aid is going to non-existent education for the public.
Education opportunities were almost non existent.
Non existent for 70 minutes.
Can we really afford to continue allowing our children and schools to have no childhood physical activity strategy, no mandatory school physical education time, no physical education quality expectations, selling of school playing fields, virtually non-existent investment in physical education, and lack of provision to non-sporting physical activity opportunities?
The book's three sections – "What was sex?", "What was love?" and "Exploring sex and love in marriage" – take us through the whole cycle of the interviewees' awareness of sex, from the rudimentary and often non-existent provision of sex education, through courtship, petting, birth control, marriage and parenthood.
But little more can be done because, while funding has been slow to pour into Nepal for health, shelter, food and sanitation, it is virtually non-existent when it comes to education.
And yet serious attempts to revive desegregation policies are virtually non-existent in the contemporary narrative of education reform.
It was when my four-year-old clambered on to a coach for a three-day school camp, the head laughing off my worries about non-existent seatbelts, that I realised his education would be very different from mine.
The project is revealing that while most young people begin talking about STI prevention in the classroom, people over 60 were brought up during an era when sex education was mostly non-existent.
Access to health, reproductive health care and education is almost non-existent.
