EDUCATION

Compared to the kinds of headlines teachers are making today, Cameron Diaz in and as Bad teacher was a veritable saint. From teachers who rape underage girls to the ones who end up birthing children fathered by underage boys – the new nightmare of children’s abuse starts with their mentors – take in question the Australian teacher arrested in Philippines.

According to a report from Universities Australia, more than two-thirds of the student population is worrying about their tuition fees and other finances. The current figure is a big leap coming from just half of university students reportedly under financial stress in 2006.

Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich is going up against religious schools in his aim to protect the rights of gay students. He is preparing a bill that would ban schools from expelling students on the grounds of their sexuality, which is strongly opposed by most faith-based educational institutions.

Higher Education Minister Kim Carr has accused former Prime Minister Julia Gillard of causing Australia National University to cut 230 jobs. Carr says Australia National University's job cuts were closely associated with the Australian Labor party's decision to reduce university funding to $2.3 billion. Any changes that Kevin Rudd's government planned to implement would have to meet budget rules requiring new spending to be offset by savings.

Not only is Big Brother's surveillance leviathan growing larger by the day but it has become a most arrogant creature as well, operating at will against the people - or, perhaps more appropriately in this case, operating against the will of the people.

The primary and intermediate teachers union in New Zealand has signed a deal with the government to give 800 expert teachers allowances worth $4 million. The union said the allowance will mark the beginning of performance pay.

Australia can expect an increase in foreign students enrolments in the next five to 10 years as the recent commissioned survey by HSBC reveals that the country is the top choice of Chinese students for their overseas education. They ranked Australia no. 1 in Asia, and fourth globally behind the US, UK and Canada

Six universities in Australia have recently topped the World University Rankings for 2012-2013. The highest-ranking Australian university is the University of Melbourne. Out of 400 universities, the University of Melbourne ranked 28th with an overall score of 77.9. It ranked 37th in the world rankings in 2012.

Attractiveness makes people's lives easier or at least some people think so.

A Victoria University student has collected the top award in a global business competition for a scheme to support entrepreneurs in villages in developing countries.

Trying to find the easy way out can lead to all sorts of discoveries. When several 15-year-olds found they could hack the laptop of their teacher’s boyfriend for test answers, it was too good to pass up. Within a few minutes, the students did not just find the answers to their exam – a racy photo of their teacher was also part of the find.

Many women have silicone implants on their areas just to move sizes from Cup A to Cup D, but for Washington teen Brittany Minder, being too buxom proved to be a problem, at least for one night.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard may have joked her way on Thursday by saying that the student who threw a salami and tomato sandwich at her may have thought she was hungry.

The cost of raising a child today has increased by half its recorded amount six years ago, according to a report by AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) from Australia’s University of Canberra. The report reveals that a middle-income family now is facing the inevitable - - to spend more on raising children than attending to basic socio-economic needs like, education.

There has been nothing you could call "successful" about President Obama's so-called "green energy" initiatives, but the worst thing of all is the billions in taxpayer dollars he has utterly wasted on failed companies who were trying to push unproven, and ultimately failed, initiatives.

In response to criticisms that she is not qualified to become a lawmaker, Senator-elect Nancy Binay said on Thursday that she will enroll in a crash course for new legislators.

Individual liberty is being burned at the stake, as governments set fire to people natural rights. This time it has everything to do with homeschooling.

In a historic first time, sports becomes an official curriculum in some private girls' schools in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is known for being ultra conservative when it comes to women's rights and participation in society.

No one is born as a leader, however leadership skills can be acquired over time. It is possible to develop the qualities that make up a successful leader. It is a well-known fact that true leaders are never satisfied with their own selves and are always on the lookout for opportunities to grow. In order to improve leadership skills, it is necessary to concentrate on a few specific areas.

Romantic wedding proposals are a dime-a-dozen since they are the most common and popular ways to get a woman to say, "Yes, I will marry you." The traditional way is to pop the question in a romantic setting such as a hotel restaurant then the man goes down on one knee, opens a tiny box, brings out the diamond-encrusted engagement ring and asks the inevitable question. In the case of Australian physicist Brendan McMonigal, he made the same gestures, but instead gave his girlfriend, scienti...

Disney and the Australia government are striking a deal for the production of "20, 000 Leagues" directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt.

People resort to several desperate measures to pay off their education, but a few have used an ultimate weapon to resolve their issue: auctioning off their virginity.

Learning does not have to end with a earning a diploma or your retirement. Accessing world-class education is now easy via online.Thanks to the online courses, getting a masters degree or advanced studies could be done according to your own pace and fun is not a word to be missed.

China has become the preferred partner of most Australian universities when it comes to boosting knowledge linkages for student and staff exchange as well as collaborative research.

Languages are highly complex systems and yet most children seem to acquire language easily, even in the absence of formal instruction. New research on young children's use of British Sign Language (BSL) sheds light on one mechanism - iconicity - that may play an important role in children's ability to learn language.

A New York University (NYU) professor has landed herself in the national spotlight after several of her students spoke out about a controversial class assignment that involved plotting the details of a realistic terrorist attack.

This week, Mother Nature occupied Wall Street. CNN, the Weather Channel and the National Weather Service reported that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange was under three feet of water. A live video feed of the trading floor said otherwise. Maybe it was just wishful thinking. The stock market was closed anyway.

Australia will be among the most elite educational system by 2025, according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she is scheduled to outline her government’s official response on the Gonski Review Monday.

The cost of tuition is soaring, outpacing the cost of living in most countries. Last year, tuition and fees at US public universities soared 8.3 percent, twice the rate of national inflation.