Parents and teachers who try to make their kids behave by subjecting them to humiliating punishments are taking the wrong approach to discipline, experts say. Just this month, a Florida teacher was suspended for making tardy students wear a wide-brimmed dog collar dubbed the "cone of shame." And parents in Minnesota who were disappointed with their daughter's grades were arrestedRead more

Looks like calculators could soon be a thing of the past - at least for over 3,000 UAE children who are graduates of the Universal Concept Mental Arithmetic System (UCMAS) as they can mentally solve mathematical problems within seconds. XPRESS had a close encounter with a group of UCMAS students and we were left speechless by their skills: solving aRead more

Activists say some 100,000 students and supporters took to the streets of Santiago to protest Chile's class-based education system. The march, organized by the Confederation of University Students of Chile, was the second of its kind this year. Thousands of protests were held last year by high school and college students demanding an end to for-profit education and the implementationRead more

Algeria, from a demographic point of view, is an extremely young country, and confirmation of this comes also from the analysis of the prison population, with 75 percent of prisoners being below the age of 30. It is a huge percentage and at the same time very worrying because it is yet another sign of a social problem, which asRead more

Chilean police arrested 70 protesting students late Wednesday as thousands took to the streets of the capital seeking an overhaul of what they call one of the world's priciest and most unfair education systems. The students, joined by some parents and professors, thronged the Plaza Italia square, following up on more than 40 demonstrations last year against the system whichRead more

The Arabic language teacher of a Dubai school who allegedly flogged a grade one boy last week has been suspended, Gulf News has learnt. Gulf News reported on Tuesday that six-year-old Ahmad came home crying last Thursday and his parents found bruises and scars on his back. Dubai Police as well as the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) areRead more

Research indicates students in college can have as good a time at a party if they don't drink, U.S. researchers suggest. Lori Scott-Sheldon of the Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., analyzed data on 19 studies involving more than 1,400 U.S. college students. The study, published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior, found students were less likely to drink alcoholRead more

Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Pakistan School were crowned champions of the under-16 Abu Dhabi inter-school tournament to halt a losing streak after going down in two finals this season. The Pakistan School gained sweet revenge on Abu Dhabi Indian School, to whom they had earlier lost the under-14 final. They had finished second-best to Cambridge High School in the inter-schoolRead more

The Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) has commended the swift actions taken by the Model School in the wake of a school bus accident that left six pupils with minor injuries. The accident, which occurred on Monday morning, involved the school's Bus No. 6 and an Al Ghazal Transport mini bus at the entrance of the Mussafah road under theRead more

The Macau Pasteur foundation, which specialises in the production of chocolates and Moroccan pastry, announced Wednesday the winners of the national competition for confectionery and chocolate pupils in Morocco. This came months after a selection process in different parts of the Kingdom, where organisers of the national contest traveled thousands of kilometres to grant the largest number of students theRead more