The extent of the grip which Turkmen president Saparmurad Niazov has on his country has been highlighted by a clampdown some of his officials have instituted on the basis of a few off-the-cuff remarks he made.
Luciana Berger, 23, a close friend of Euan Blair, the prime minister’s son, described last week how she had been forced to resign from the executive committee of the National Union of Students (NUS) after being abused and spat at by left-wing undergradu
American Civil Liberties Union staff attorneys with the US Department of Education have filed a complaint on behalf of 14 families for discrimination against Indian youth by a School District in south central South Dakota claiming that the school district
Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad Tuesday pushed for the enactment of a Magna Carta for students' rights following the refusal of a nursing school here to enroll a student, who has a photograph of herself showing her cleavage.
Egypt's academic life is being stifled by intimidation and censorship imposed by the state, Human Rights Watch says. The repressive atmosphere has led to self-censorship in the country's universities, the US-based group adds.
The National Human Rights Commission once again took up the cause of schoolchildren on Monday when it rejected the draconian middle and high school practice of chopping students' hair if it is deemed to exceed the prescribed length.
''Through its discriminatory practices, the Winner School District systematically pushes Native American children out of its schools, often into the juvenile justice system. To permit Winner Schools to remain above the law will encourage other school dist
The Ministry of Education and a Toronto school board are coming under fire from the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The commission says the Toronto District School Board's Safe Schools Act unfairly singles out visible minorities and students with disabil
The Ranchi University decision barring students from appearing in Part-I examinations in regional languages has sparked protests from Bengali, Oriya and Urdu organisations. The regional bodies have threatened to launch a statewide agitation to mount press
Unmarried students at Fudan University will no longer be immediately expelled for having sex, according to a draft version of a revised campus regulation posted on the school's Website last week. Students will still be punished if they are caught between
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