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MSNBC
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Anger over schools' collapse
Chinese government officials, meanwhile, struggled to answer questions from angry citizens on why so many schools collapsed in Monday's earthquake. They vowed to punish anyone responsible for shoddy construction.
APA res..
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CNN
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A South African court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing students at a school set up by Oprah Winfrey. A lawyer acting for Tiny Virginia Makopo said he needed more time to consult with his client. She is charged..
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BBC News
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A national day of mourning is being held in Finland after an 18-year-old man went on a gun rampage at his school and killed seven pupils and a teacher.
The gunman, reportedly identified as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, shot himself in the head and later died in..
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BBC News
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A teenage boy has died after being shot outside a school in the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.
Officials said the 14-year-old died in hospital after being shot at the CW Jefferys Collegiate Institute.
Police forced students to remain in thei..
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BBC News
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Authorities in an Australian town have rejected proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there.
Councillors for Camden, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, unanimously voted against the proposed school for 1200 pupils.
The councillors s..
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BBC News
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Two Pakistani boys have been reunited with their family days after they strayed into Indian territory after running away from school.
The boys say they were beaten by Indian police, who suspected them of spying.
A Pakistani official said the boys we..
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BBC News
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An overnight fire in a school dormitory in Uganda has killed 19 children and injured several others, police say.
"It was a female dormitory with girls aged between nine to 12," said police spokeswoman Judith Nabkooba.
She said police are investigati..
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SF Gate
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A teenager who called himself "a natural predator" shot and killed seven of his classmates and the principal inside a public high school here Wednesday, police said, one day after posting a video on YouTube in which he foreshadowed a massacre.
The midd..
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CNN
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At least one person has been killed in a school shooting in Finland, CNN has learned. The headmaster of the school in Tuusula, near Helsinki, is reported to have died in the attack, according to a reporter for CNN affiliate station MTV. Some media reports..
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News.com.au
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Three teenagers have been killed and one wounded in an horrific schoolyard execution which had no immediately apparent motive.
The four - two girls and two boys - were lined up against a wall in a school parking lot in New Jersey today and shot in the..
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Washington Post
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At first, the Web site director and his schoolteacher wife sent their 5-year-old son to a Confucian school in this central Chinese city simply because it was two minutes from home. But the more they learned about the school, the more they liked what they..
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CNN
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A mentally ill man wielding a wrench wounded 18 children and a teacher in a kindergarten in southern China before fleeing on a motorcycle and trying to stab himself to death, state media reported Saturday.
The man charged into the school Friday afterno..
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BBC News
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Classmates of a 13-year-old Bangladeshi school girl due to enter a forced marriage have united to stop the ceremony going ahead, police say.
Around 50 pupils in the town of Satkhira took to the streets to demand that Habiba Sultana's wedding be called..
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Stuff.co.nz
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A female high school guidance counsellor had sex with a suicidal 16-year-old girl who called her "aunty".
Janette Isaac has been ordered to pay her former client $35,000 in damages and $5000 costs for humiliation, loss of dignity, injury to her feeling..
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CNN
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Africa is generally seen as the continental poor relation in business school terms, lagging behind North America, Europe and Asia, even South America.
However, as detailed before on Executive Education (click here), Africa does have a number of top sch..
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CNN
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Government health officials who examined about 600 female students suffering from symptoms that sparked fears of an epidemic at a Roman Catholic boarding school said Thursday the mystery illness was psychosomatic.
Media coverage showing girls unable to..
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BBC News
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Dozens of young women from a religious school in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, have broken into an alleged brothel and kidnapped the owner.
The women, from the nearby Jamia Hafsa madrassa, burst in late on Tuesday, demanding the premises be shut down...
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CNN
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Oprah Winfrey opened her second school for poor South African youth Friday, an innovative, environmentally friendly institution she hopes will be a model for public education.
The Seven Fountains Primary School was funded by Oprah's Angel Network, a pu..
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Daily Mail
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The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found...
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Spiegel.de
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A school project in Jerusalem aims to quietly revolutionize the country. Jewish and Arab children sit in the same classrooms and are taught by teachers from both communities. The most important lesson they learn is empathy for one another...
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