Students at an Aberdeen university were left bewildered when they were given an exam with the answers attached.Dozens of final-year business students at Robert Gordon University (RGU) received a marker's version of the exam paper by mistake.However, students alerted invigilators to the mistake and will sit a rescheduled exam.An RGU spokeswoman told the BBC Scotland […]
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UK: Students given exam with answers
CPR, 911 call for youth were delayed - staff believed boy feigned sleep while unconscious
When a youth at the Bowling Brook Preparatory School lost consciousness last week while being restrained by staff, workers delayed administering CPR or calling for an ambulance because they believed he was pretending to be asleep, according to a report sent by the school to the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services.When the paramedics were finally […]
Broad Voucher Plan Is Approved in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 10 (AP) - The Utah State Legislature approved one of the broadest school voucher programs in the nation on Friday, allotting up to $3,000 for any public school student to put toward private school tuition.Voucher programs in the handful of other states that have them are generally intended for poor families […]
Mutilating for God -- Some children are forced into bloody rite
The 6-year-old boy screamed and shook his head to avoid the razor blade. But his father held him firmly as Hajj Khodor parted the boy's black hair and sliced his forehead three times with the blade.Ali Madani's cries became more violent as blood gushed from the wound, covering his small, terrified face. His father and […]
German Homeschooled Child Sentenced to a Child Psychiatry Unit
The situation for homeschoolers in Germany is getting worse each week. Just last Thursday, a 17-year-old homeschooled girl was forcibly removed from her parent's custody by over 15 police officers. The homeschooled girl has been placed in the child psychiatry unit of the Nuremberg clinic.Homeschooling is not legal in Germany. There are over 40 cases […]
Texas governor orders STD vaccine for all girls
AUSTIN, Texas - Bypassing the Legislature altogether, Republican Gov. Rick Perry issued an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.By employing an executive order, Perry sidestepped opposition in the Legislature from conservatives and parents' rights groups who fear such a […]
Too much homework can be counterproductive
Instead of improving educational achievement in countries around the world, increases in homework may actually undercut teaching effectiveness and worsen disparities in student learning, according to two Penn State researchers.Most teachers worldwide are not making efficient use of homework, said David P. Baker, professor of education and sociology. They assign homework mostly as drill, to […]
Scientists Cure Cancer
Scientists may have cured cancer last week.Yep.So, why haven't the media picked up on it?Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know […]
Go to your room..for 2 years
Authorities say the couple locked their teenage daughter in her bedroom for two years allowing her out for only a couple hours a day.A (Milwaukee) Wisconsin couple is behind bars, each one charged with one count of causing mental harm to a child, a felony. Advertisement"You see the sparkle in her eyes for all those […]
Store bans a boy of two for wearing his 'hoodie'
A boy has been banned from a shop because he was wearing a hood - at the age of two. Jay Cowper was muffled up against the cold but he and his grandfather were told they had to leave their local store. The same shop in York recently banned a middle-aged nurse for wearing a […]
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