Wikipedia banned at school
There seems to be a growing trend for schools to ban things that help the pupils to understand their work or produce better work to help them with their studies, so why ban something that would help achieve better results?
Well this is what a school in New Jersey has done, the Warren Hills Regional District [...]
Site offers readers access to 1.5 million books
There is a great new project being developed between Carnegie Mellon University in the States, the Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India, and the Alexandria in Egypt where they have managed to completely digitise more than 1.5 million books to make them available online.
The online library will be available to [...]
Teacher still awaits fate in Sudan
A teacher from Liverpool, who has been working in the Sudan, has been waiting in police custody while the authorities decide her fate, which could be as bad as receiving forty lashes.
Her crime was to call a seven year old child’s toy teddy bear Muhammad, the same name as the Prophet of Islam and because [...]
Excuses to dropout of college
Dropping put of college does not necessarily mean that the student cannot cope or is failing; there are some rather surprising excuses which crop up when students return home after walking out on their studies.
These are:
Feeling homesick
Schedule is too demanding
Not prepared
Family problems
Financial Pressure
Too much partying
Cannot fit in
Chosen wrong course
Having to work
Don’t like accommodation
So it would [...]
Lack of sleep affects schooling
Kids who are over worked and over stressed are getting at least one hour less sleep per night than the average child. This has long term effects on the way that the child performs at school which will then add more pressure on the child and thus the situation will get worse and worse.
The stress [...]
School introduces green Santa
School Santa gets a makeover and the parents don’t like it one little bit, so what is the problem here? The trouble started when the Steiner School in Brighton, decided that poor old Santa has become far too commercialised and in fact had almost become a seasonal logo for Coca Cola.
So the school decided in [...]
Social Networking or Social Position?
Despite what people are saying, it would appear that certain social networking sites have a certain following from different groups; this can be made up by education, religion and race. So when we are told that the student’s first choice for a social networking site is Facebook this may not be entirely right, because according [...]
November 19, 2007Free school meals for Wales
It looks like the pupils in Wales may be getting free school meals; this follows the success of the program that has been running in Scotland. So a six month pilot scheme may be introduced.
The idea behind these schemes is that this would give schools greater control of the children, as one leading politician put [...]
Kids in UK know about abroad
School children in the UK are not internationally aware that’s according to a survey conducted by the British Council.
This was an international survey that involved 4,170 children all who have internet access, the country with the highest results is Nigeria, the UK cam in at a sad last, behind the Czech Republic and even the [...]
Teachers overlook bullying
According to some sources children with learning and physical disabilities are being bullied and this problem is not being taken seriously by the teaching staff of the schools that they attend.
The governments Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green stated that people are very slow to recognise this growing problem. From which we can only assume that [...]
Head Teachers get falsely accused
In the UK there is a little known fact that around 60% of head teachers and teaching staff have had a malicious compliant made about them; and just in the last three years. This has prompted teaching staff to call for action against the culprits who fabricate stories in order to just get a teacher [...]
November 9, 2007Stripper performs in classroom
Pupils in the drama class at the Arnold Hill School and Technology College in Nottingham got an unexpected live performance from a very unusual performer, a stripper! Reaching sixteen is a bit of mile stone, but for a mother to book a stripper and send her along to her sons school is totally strange, even [...]
November 8, 2007Student on rampage in Finland
A chilling video message on You Tube could have warned students, teaching staff and the authorities of what was about to happen, yet the teenager was able to go ahead and complete his plan.
As it turned out five boys, two girls and the woman head teacher were caught up when eighteen year old Pekka Eric [...]
Hack the University’s computer and get 20 years!
Kids who hack into the university or colleges computer systems have for many years been portrayed in TV and films as being young geeky types who are not really cheaters they just do it because it is there to do.
But the authorities take a different view in this behaviour, especially in the US state of [...]
Wind powered school gets award
A small village primary school in Durham which is the first in the country to have its own wind turbine has won an award for its efforts. The Cassop Primary School is officially the greenest school in the country, which is great for a school which has had a bit of a helter skelter history [...]
November 2, 2007Muslim dress for teachers
Teaching staff at a primary school in the West Midlands has been ordered to wear the same clothes as Muslims, this supposed to be the schools idea of promoting multi culturalism while the school celebrates a Muslim festival.
In the school which there are 257 pupils the majority are Christian and of the 41 teaching staff [...]
Teacher pours water over pupil
This has case has taken while to get here, but a schools head is appearing before a disciplinary panel for pouring a glass of water over a pupils new hairstyle.
This happened during the 2002 world cup finals, this was the one when a certain David Beckham had his hair styled in the Mohican fashion, naturally [...]