EDUCATION

Parents are shying away from confronting their children and leaving all the disciplinary plans to teachers, a survey in Victoria has indicated.

She is one of Hollywood’s youngest rising stars but the 14-year old Chloe Moretz has got her mind set on bigger things of which includes her education.

On a typical day in school, Kush Bhattacharya, 4, can disappear from his mathematics class to enjoy running on the grass barefooted. He hides from friends in a cow dung-made cave and goes back to reciting nursery rhymes in a read bus, which seems doubling up a classroom.

Education authorities are considering random drug testing involving the police to address the drug issues, such as taking or dealing drugs, which have caused the suspension of over 100 students in Waikato schools in 2011.

Adriana Kemp, 14, is in a hospital for spinal injuries which were a result of bullies' beating at Flaxmere College, New Zealand's TV3 reported. Adriana was forced to the ground as two fellow pupils repeatedly punched her on a grassy field at school. The attack was filmed and uploaded to YouTube, according to the report.

Suicide reports from schools during VCE exams in November shocked Victorian Education Minister Martin Dixon, who, after receiving the reports, ordered an investigation on student suicides and teen mental health issues in the state.

The Australian government is providing $5 million in cash grants for poor families in the Philippines to help them continue sending children to school.

A group advocating sex education is drawing attention to the sexual lifestyle of young Australians and the youth’s awareness of safe sex practices, warning that ignorance could make the young Aussies vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

One Australian woman was among seven passengers killed in a train fire in India on Tuesday. Three other Australian passengers were injured in the accident that occured 2 a.m. local time in Jharkhand state.

An estimated amount of $300 million is needed to repair Victoria's state schools before it becomes utterly worthless in decayed state, Herald Sun reported.

Some 27 percent of New Zealand’s teenage population could be dreaming of how to leave the country eventually, according to a survey released by the Ministry of Education Wednesday.

The recent Amber Video search frenzy proves three things on the cyberspace today: one, people cannot resist jumping on the curious bandwagon; two, anyone hungry enough for attention - for whatever purpose -- has a place on the internet; and three, internet users have a long way to go before grasping the concept of responsible sharing of information.

Taking a leap of faith to apply for an internship in the Big Apple proved fruitful for this young writer.

A French teacher has died of injuries from third degree burns after setting herself on fire in front of frightened students. The 44-year-old teacher, who had worked at Jean Moulin school for 10 years, was depressed over her relations with her students in her math classes.

Versions of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in New York were staged in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan over the weekend with similar protesters in Sydney and Melbourne demonstrating in Martin Place and City Square.

Mental health as a subject in high school in Australia can make a difference in the lives of teenagers.

The Apple logo with the silhouette of the company's co-founder Steve Jobs replacing the bite may not be an original design after it matched with another designed by a Briton.

YouTube, in cooperation with computer maker Lenovo, Google, NASA and ESA, has launched Space Lab, a global competition for students around the world who will work on a science experiment design with the International Space Station in mind.

The past decade has seen the increase in more and more undergraduate university students looking at continuing their education after graduation, or after a few years working in the professional marketplace.

India launched on Wednesday the world's cheapest tablet computer priced at only $46 amid doubts that its intended users, poor students, will love and keep the device that has features way off that of an iPad's.

Australian astronomers have located the Milky Way, which apparently sits like a bead in a cosmic thread in the great cosmos.

A bus carrying private school pupils fell into a ravine in the children's home district of Faisalabad. Authorities said investigation is underway, but early findings pointed to the failure of the brakes as reason for the accident.

The popular book series entitled "Gossip Girls" by author Cecily von Ziegesar has been removed from a Mississippi high school after parents found that it contained sexually explicit material and f-words.

New Zealand parents phone a radio station broadcasting the situation of sex ed in schools and expressed their dissatisfaction, saying the lessons have gone too far.

China aims to empower college students with the right knowledge about love and the inevitable consequences of engaging in sex.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), through its latest edition of Education at a Glance, showed how the countries are ranking in terms of cost of education. OECD noted a sharp rise in the cost of higher education in the United States, adding this situation has already led to a relative stagnation in the number of people going on to university.

Chinese students learn English through Li Yang's Crazy English course, one-of-a-kind program where students shout the English sentences on a roof top, instead of writing them.

Young entrepreneurs who dare to skip college and dive into an industry of their choice have found an ally in PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a high-flying Silicon Valley venture capitalist. Thiel disagrees with any criticism that the program encourages young people to trivialize college. He stressed that the fellows, who were chosen from over 400 applicants, showed brilliance and sheer determination.

Employers invest in training apprentices in a bid to improve human resources, but the purpose is defeated, as dropout rate is seen to cost Australia almost $12 billion in the next 10 years. NSW-commissioned modelling by Deloitte Access Economics has estimated the combined losses in NSW last year at over $180 million. Employers lost $124 million, the state government $33 million and the Commonwealth $26 million in payments and expenses.