The capital's education regulator is bringing in guidelines to help schools prevent bullying and other behavioural problems in pupils. The guidelines, developed last year by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec), will add to a disciplinary code issued by the Ministry of Education in December. Adec is training educators on how to use the guidelines in workshops. The news followsRead more

public school teachers may not contact students through personal pages on Web sites like Facebook and Twitter, but can communicate via pages set up for classroom use, the Education Department said Tuesday after it released its first list of guidelines governing the use of social media by employees. The guidelines do not ban teachers from using social media and, inRead more

Parents often notice a resurgence of the “terrible twos” when their child enters adolescence, complete with the assertions of independence, the frustration of not having the language needed to express the complexity of their emotions, and the seemingly automatic response of, “No!” or “That’s not fair!” when asked to do anything by parents. Even tantrums seem to rear their uglyRead more

Luisa Dillner: writer and parent Who's to blame if your child watches porn? It's the greedy internet service providers, say MPs from an all-party committee, who want ISPs to apply automatic filters to prevent access to adult material. To access porn, you would have to opt out. But before you think, "Phew, job done", Naomi Gummer, a Google executive, saidRead more

Graham Stuart, chairman of the Commons education select committee, said the worst staff should be “removed from the profession” to prevent long-term damage to pupils’ progress. He also criticised opposition to the changes from unions, saying it “doesn’t make sense” to pay lazy staff working in leafy suburbs as much as inspirational teachers in tough inner-city schools. But the NationalRead more

Public debate about the purpose and practice of higher educatation is currently dominated by a discourse of employability which privileges the financial rewards of achieving a HE qualification over the personal and social rewards associated with the experience itself. Critics of this discourse argue that attempts to isolate preparation for employment from other aspects of personal and social development areRead more

How many of you are leaders?" asks Sallyann Della Casa. A simple question but, predictably enough, not a hand goes up among the 25 students in Grade five of the International Indian High School in Dubai Silicon Oasis. Sallyann was expecting this reaction and moves on to the next question: "How many of you believe you are not a leader?"Read more

The Indian High School on Monday denied a tweet which said that the school had suspended a teacher for allegedly humiliating seventh grade pupils in class. The Social Studies teacher had asked a class of seventh graders to wear tags that read "Useless boy of 7 W" for making noise in the classroom. The incident happened on April 17. TheRead more

Reach Out to Asia (ROTA) inaugurated two new community schools serving 344 primary and secondary students in Khost Province of eastern Afghanistan. With funding support from ROTA, on October 2011 CARE International in Afghanistan began implementing a three-year project that draws on its extensive experience and lessons learned in community-based education. The project is designed to establish and support CommunityRead more

The beating of 11-year-old Loujain Hussain in an Abu Dhabi school has shed light on a dark problem for pupils, parents and educators. ust days ago, 11-year-old Loujain Hussain, the youngest in her family, was just like any other happy, sweet little girl her age. Today, she is fighting to regain her health after days lying in a coma inRead more