School Survival

An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty.The Web site of the Bruin Alumni Association also includes a "Dirty Thirty" list of professors considered by the group to be the most extreme […]

Students think their lecturers are stuck-up, disorganised, unpunctual, unfunny, badly dressed and too desperate to be "hip", a poll suggests.The responses from 648 students found many thought academics were "snooty" and had "objectionable facial hair".But an Association of University Teachers spokesman said lecturers and students had a "healthy relationship".The survey, which asked students to vent […]

Living alongside growing numbers of students can be a nightmare for local residents and universities must take action, a report has urged.Queen's University in Belfast recently announced a crackdown on student behaviour following complaints of noisy late-night parties, rowdy drunkenness and vandalism.Six universities - Brighton, Canterbury, Leeds, Loughborough, Salford and Nottingham - were used as […]

It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to rush off to.Welcome to the world of "unschooling" -- an educational movement where kids, not parents, not teachers, decide what they will learn that day."I don't want […]

ADHD, or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, is the most frequently diagnosed behavioral disorder in children. The diagnosis affects approximately 3 to 5% of school children or approximately 2 million children in the United States. A large number of children with ADHD, 40-60%, are also diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and/or Conduct Disorder (CD). According […]

The girl's father, Dave F. Swafford, was charged with felony battery on a school employee after he hit the 35-year-old Tuesday in front of a full class. A Tampa radio station named him "Father of the Year" and offered the family Daytona 500 race tickets.School surveillance cameras show that a teacher's aide who was punched […]

Hungary's Ombudsman has told a primary school it must stop discriminating against its Roma (Gypsy) pupils after finding that it separated them from other children and listed them all as having learning disabilities.The school in Kerepes, about 10 km (6 miles) east of the capital Budapest, erected bars down a corridor to segregate Roma children […]

Georgetown University Law School students explain why they staged a protest to oppose Alberto Gonzales' speech defending government's wiretapping.On Tuesday, we stood and turned our backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The country's highest-ranking lawyer came to our school -- Georgetown University Law Center -- to convince the American public that the government's wiretapping program […]

An Italian court is tackling Jesus -- and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.The case pits against each other two men in their 70s, who are from the same central Italian town and even went to the same seminary school in their teenage […]

MANGALORE: "Sex education should be an integral part of every individual from birth to death irrespective of age as it deals with various aspects of human development including the thinking pattern and behaviour of an individual," said well known gynaecologist Dr Padmini Prasad.Addressing the gathering at the one-day workshop as a part of the "Yuva […]