British Scholar Encourages Colleagues To Enjoy Female Students

University of Buckingham vice-chancellor Terence Kealey is encouraging his male colleagues to enjoy the curves of their female students - but to look, not touch. Kealey wrote an article on lust in the Times Higher Education Magazine in a series about the seven deadly sins of...

Does Sitting in front of the class makes you a better student ?

If you ask the following question: Where do the best students sit inside a classroom? 9 out of 10 are likely to respond “in the front”.  If you ask: why? The likely response is “to pay more...

21st Centrury Classroom in the Hills of Dade City

"Twenty miles north of Tampa, Fla., turning east on Hwy 52, flatwoods of evergreens and monotony give way to rolling hills turned cattle land and valleys that hold December morning mists and wax nostalgic for...

SecondLife.com: Are Virtual Worlds the Future of Education?

SecondLife.com, or Second Life, is an interactive "internet-based virtual world", which people enter in the form of a digital "avatar". The visual quality and number of environments, options and opportunities continues to expand- in addition to being a place where people...

Tweetsgiving brings Twitter together to raise $10,000 for charity

Tweetsgiving has turned Twitter's ability to bring out sarcastic and witty comments in its users into an online chairty that is trying to raise $10,000 for a class of Tanzanian students. Run by Epic Change,...

Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage

"(10-31) 10:13 PDT Stockton Springs, Maine (AP) -- A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at a school Friday but was tackled outside a classroom without any harm to the children, police said. ...

Kauhajoki College Massacre: Saari's Army Career was Terminated Early

25th Sept 2008 AS more details come out about the gunman Matti Juhani Saari, 22, there appears to have been some pointers to his state of mind, apart from the video, which was disturbing enough for police to...

Finnish School Shooter Left Two Notes, "I Hate Everybody, I Hate Mankind"

MATTI Juhani Saari, 22, a student at the Kauhajoki College of Hospitality, left two notes, a recent CNN broadcaster has revealed, in which he is alleged to have written "I hate everybody, I hate mankind."...

Corporal punishment rife in U.S. schools, report shows

I was shocked to learn from this report that 21 US states still allow teachers in public schools to hit students! It's also amazing to see who is getting hit. The report concludes that in the states which still allow corporal punishment, which are mostly in the South, blacks...

Sex teacher: I'm no bad role model

A Catholic primary school teacher's raunchy poses on a TV modelling show have shocked family groups. But, despite the outcry, Sacred Heart primary school in Melbourne have pledged its support to 24-year-old...

Instructor teaches students how to code viruses

A California computer instructor is teaching students how to code and think like a hacker, much to the chagrin of computer anti-virus companies. He says he hopes to shake up the internet security sector by...

Nintendo: A Tool for Japan's Schools

Japan is truly taking interactive learning to a whole new level. English teachers in Tokyo Joshi Gakuen school in Japan are starting to use DS consoles as the latest tool andtechnology in their English...

Chinese Teacher Hits and Slaps Student In Front of Class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdu-EO_qBQc A Chinese teacher has been caught on a cellphone camera abusing a female student. In the Youtube video she repeatedly slaps the student in the face with her hand, then...

Cannes winner "The Class" reminds of "Salaam Bombay"

"CANNES, France —61st Cannes Film Festival awarded the French film "The Class," a story about classroom life using real students and teachers (amateur actors) at a junior high school, with Palme d'Or, the most...

Video Games as Military Intelligence Training

As the US military seeks to up its intelligence game, it has turned to, well, games in order to better train its operatives. Splinter Cell is not among the titles, however, as these are custom games, focusing not...

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