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Thai teacher caught caning students

The Press Association 31.08.2010
Thai PM targets pupil feuds; Orders measures to deal with inter-school brawls

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has instructed the Education Ministry to propose further measures to curb inter-school violence.

Thai teacher caught caning students

Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.

Local team wins Thammasat contest

Supanee na songkhla The Nation 30.08.2010
Local team wins Thammasat contest

Thammasat undergraduate students scored the 1st prize for the fourth time under Thammasat Undergraduate Business Challenge, of which result of the 2010 version was unveiled on Saturday.

Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan

Like every Chinese child, Li Hanwei spent her schooldays memorising thousands of the intricate characters that make up the Chinese writing system. Yet aged just 21 and now a university student in Hong Kong, Li already finds that when she picks up a pen to write, the characters for words as simple as "embarrassed" have slipped from her mind.

Teacher Assigns Students To Plan Terror Attack

Students at an Australian school were asked to plan a terrorist attack "to kill the MOST innocent civilians in order to get your message across" as part of a class assignment, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported Wednesday.

Girls Bugged Teachers' Staff Room

A pair of mischievous Swedish schoolgirls ended up in court for bugging their teachers' staff room in a bid to get better grades, local media reported Tuesday.

Los Angeles unveils $578M school, costliest in US

CHRISTINA HOAG Yahoo! News 24.08.2010
Los Angeles unveils $578M school, costliest in US

Next month's opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools will be auspicious for a reason other than its both storied and infamous history as the former Ambassador Hotel, where the Democratic presidential contender was assassinated in 1968. With an eye-popping price tag of $578 million, it will mark the inauguration of the nation's most expensive public school ever.

Connecticut school mulls tracking devices for students

In the tony town of New Canaan, students might someday get tracking tags along with their textbooks. No decisions have yet been made, but school officials plan to look into the possibility of adding radio frequency tags to student or staff ID cards, or place them on school property, like laptops, the New Canaan Advertiser reports.

Close watch on students' 'political' plays

Yojana Sharma University World News 19.08.2010
Informatics medals for Thai students

Thai Mathayom-6 students won a gold medal, plus two silvers and a bronze medal at the 12th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2010, which finished in Ontario, Canada, yesterday.

File photo

After censoring the news media and internet in the wake of the May crackdown, the Thai government has turned its sights on campus plays for signs of political dissent. Seemingly innocuous and entertaining amateur dramatics by students have come under scrutiny by the nervous authorities, who fear they may contain seditious ideas or affect national security.

Assembly aims to ease pregnant students' ordeal

Wannapa Khaopa The Nation 17.08.2010
Dane Appointed Honorary Doctor at Thai University

Associate Professor Emeritus Jørgen Hylleberg, Marine Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, has been conferred an Honorary Degree by the Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Assembly aims to ease pregnant students' ordeal

Pregnant students should be allowed to continue their studies or take temporary maternal leave to deliver their babies before returning to school, an educational assembly agreed yesterday.

More success for Asian University’s Engineering Faculty: Dr. Danai Torrungrueng’s Sabbatical-Leave in Ohio, USA

From June 16 to July 30, 2010, Asst. Prof. Dr. Danai Torrungrueng was on sabbatical leave to carry out research on computational electromagnetics (CEM) with Prof. Joel T. Johnson at the ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL), The Ohio State University (OSU), in Columbus Ohio, USA, (http://electroscience.osu.edu/).

Teachers face death in Thailand's troubled south

BAN TAKEH, Thailand — Armed soldiers guard the road leading to Malatee Porsotee's village school in southern Thailand while security volunteers with rifles keep watch over the classrooms.

Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

TRIP GABRIEL The New York Times 03.08.2010
Asian University’s August International Summer University is under way

An Asian Experience for International students - Asian University is hosting students from countries as diverse as Venezuela, Russia, India and Portugal on two different programmes (tourism and business) for three weeks. With a full timetable, the students are enjoying Thai hospitality, and an exciting Asian Experience.

Sarah Brookover, left, a senior at Rutgers University in New Jersey, with Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic, a reference librarian.

At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information.

Country kids soar in sharp learning curve

Sirikul Bunnag Bangkok Post 02.08.2010
Country kids soar in sharp learning curve

Children from rural areas are dazzling education authorities by displaying high levels of skills which make them at least the equal of their city slicker counterparts.

Thai team wins big at Chemistry Olympiad

Thai students have won three gold medals and one silver at the 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) held in Tokyo from July 19-28.

Thailand sees plunge in educational quality

MALISA SANTIGUL, ROJANA MANOWALAILAO The Nation 26.07.2010
 
Thailand sees plunge in educational quality

While some students are paddling close to perfect, the country's overall educational quality is floating a long way offshore.

 
 

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