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Tokyo, Oct. 22 (Jiji Press)--Japan's internal affairs ministry on Thursday urged the education ministry, health ministry and Children and Families Agency to take measures to support health checkups for children who refuse to go to school. A survey released by the internal affairs ministry found that 5.7 pct of elementary school students and 19.9 pct of junior high school students who refuse...
Malaysian police have arrested a 16-year-old student after he live-streamed an attack on a teacher with an axe at a private school in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak state. CCTV footage shows the teenager entering a classroom at around 7.50am on Wednesday, hitting the female teacher once with an axe before leaving. He re-enters through a second door and swings the axe at a student as others flee the room. As the teacher tries to intervene, he attempts to hack at her again but is subdued by two...
A similar incident was reported at the Government Higher Secondary School at Thangamapatti in Dindigul district in August, the PIL petitioner said
The 16-year-old suspect previously attended the primary school and had targeted a special educational needs classroom, police say.
A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon junior school, then tackled and fought with him – probably saving lives before he was shot by a father who followed him into the building, police said Friday. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz called the teacher’s actions “heroic” during a news conference and said she was not injured. He identified the attacker as 16-year-old Griffin J. John II and said all of the victims were shot in the same classroom. Authorities...
At least 29 people, mostly children, have been killed after the school collapsed on them in Pakistan’s Peshawar.
A teacher and twenty-seven pupils were killed when a school roof collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, a hospital official said. More than thirty people were injured, with six of them believed to be in a critical condition.
Video of a student, who was made to apologise during a school assembly at Valamangalam Higher Secondary School in Cherthala, has been circulating on social media.
Pupils have been protesting after the implementation of a new dress code restricting the hijab in Azerbaijan’s schools.
A 15-year-old former pupil killed one employee and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday wearing a helmet-mounted camera, the second school stabbing in two days, possibly in response to an internet challenge, authorities said. A 37-year-old woman who worked as a caretaker had died in the latest attack, which took place at around 9am local time in Leszczydol-Nowiny, northeast of Warsaw, officials said. On Wednesday, a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself at another...
Court was considering a petition by headmistress of a Kollam school seeking to disqualify school manager for allegedly denying her entry for wearing a churidar instead of a sari
Tragedy was averted as students and teachers had left the school premises after school hours
Volunteers and students prepare safer, cleaner classrooms in advance of the academic year in Senegal's capital.
In a week that’s seen the heroism of the captain, crew and passengers on board FlyDubai flight 1073 heralded, eye witnesses report seeing the co-pilot trying to kill the pilot and destroying the cockpit controls in order to crash the plane. Despite being stabbed repeatedly, Captan Smit Machchhar managed to open the cockpit door, allowing passengers to overwhelm the suspect and regain control of the aircraft after its rapid descent of more than 14,000 feet in 30 seconds. They prevented a 9/11-style catastrophe, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
France 24's Olivia Bizot reports from the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers, where she says protests over school conditions have left "apocalyptic" scenes in their wake. The protest movement, which began last week in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage pupils block access to buildings and clash with police.
Villagers blamed the school headmaster and demanded his arrest for negligence, saying the staircase had been in poor condition for the past two years
Female students leave a school in Azerbaijan after reportedly being denied entry for wearing headscarves.
Residents of a district in the South Korean capital of Seoul are up in arms over plans to build a permanent school for North Korean defectors in their neighbourhood. The dispute escalated to the point where the school’s principal dropped to her knees to beg protesters to “embrace the children”, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported. Yeomyung School, which educates middle and high school students who fled North Korea or are children of North Korean defectors, has been unable to afford its own...