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A school for young LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) will be created from March 2010 in Campinas (93 km de SP and the second biggest metro area in this state), through an agreement with the Sao Paulo State. The space will promote technical courses for young people between 12 and 18 who seek classes of artistic expression, graphics and scenic [...]

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than adults it’s the children [...]

For 14 year old Olympic diving star Tom Daley success at Olympics has become a curse. Ever since he has returned to his school after the games he has been bullied by his school mates. The situation has become so worse that recently he had to be pulled out of the school by his parents. Apparently he had been threatened by school bullies that they would [...]

Acting on a Taliban mandate, some 400 private schools in Pakistan’s northwest Swat Valley were closed down, ending the education of more than 40,000 students. The Swat Valley is yet another one among Taliban-controlled places where basic human rights are trampled upon. The academe is a place where minds are wrought, reasoning skills are honed, and [...]

Giving feedback is essentially the same whether it is done over a distance education system or personally in a face-to-face manner. The objective is the same, as well as the content of the feedback. Both strategies rely on the same fact that some feedback will be given and that the sharing of advice is both important and imperative. Both are a form [...]

Educational attainment comes to those who have had the opportunity and material resource backing to go to school and get an education. The more financially capable can get better education from better schools that are, more often than not, more expensive. Quality has its price. The strength of educational attainment lies in the fact that it gives an [...]

The faculty’s treatment of student behavior has a considerable influence on the attendant values-formation of students as well as their willingness to adhere to standards, yet the effect of students’ dishonesty and unethical practices has received less focus as seen through the scarcity of information regarding the prevalence of dishonesty (Swazey, [...]

The root causes of cheating are deeply entrenched in the culture of the people. Thus, for ethics in an academic environment to be a prevailing trend and practice, there should be formal and institutionalized controls on the part of the academe to ensure the conditions of honesty and integrity. The factors that academicians should focus on are the ways [...]