To the list of people expressing grave concern about the recent treatment of several foreigners by the Chinese government, add the chiefEuropean Union representative in China.
“Clearly, I cannot but once again say that we are deeply concerned about all those issues,” Mr. Schweisgut said. “We do hope it’s not representing the new normal yet. But we do see an extremely worrying trend, and that’s why all these cases are taken extremely seriously.”

Late one night, the imam Shabir Ahmad looked up from prayers at his mosque to see a 15-year-old boy approaching with a plate in his outstretched left hand. On it was the boy’s freshly severed right hand.

179 giáo sư thuộc 110 trường đại học của Hàn Quốc vừa bị khởi tố về tội đạo văn. Những người này đang đứng trước nguy cơ mất việc.
Hãng tin Yonhap ngày 14/12 đưa tin Viện Kiểm sát thành phố Gyeonggi đã quyết định khởi tố các vị này, cùng 3 nhân viên nhà xuất bản. Đây là lần đầu tiên các vị giáo sư bị đưa ra trước vành móng ngựa vì tội danh này. Nếu tội danh thành lập thì sẽ xuất hiện cơn sốt các giáo sư phải nghỉ dạy.

It is a pattern repeated in other school districts across the state and country — urban, suburban and rural — where the number of students earning high school diplomas has risen to historic peaks, yet measures of academic readiness for college or jobs are much lower. This has led educators to question the real value of a high school diploma and whether graduation requirements are too easy.

HMO giant Kaiser Permanente plans to launch a medical school in Southern California, bucking the healthcare establishment and promoting a new generation of physicians that looks more like the community it serves.

Sean Shaynak, a former teacher at an elite Brooklyn public high school accused of abusing seven of his female students, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to several crimes, the most serious of which was kidnapping. Under the terms of his plea, he will be sentenced to five years in prison

BOSTON — An investigation by St. George’s School, a prestigious prep school in Rhode Island, has found that 26 students were sexually abused by school employees in the 1970s and ’80s, and that while the administration at the time fired the employees, it failed to report the abuses to the authorities.

“My son was in fourth grade and told me, ‘I’m not going to amount to anything because I have nothing to put on my résumé,’ ” Ms. Foley said.
On the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade, who said Dr. Aderhold’s reforms would amount to a “dumbing down” of his children’s education.

With 41 percent of its population under the age of 19, according to the 2011 census, India is banking on the young to drive future economic growth. But its public schools — where 70 percent of all children study — are a disaster. In the 2009 PISA survey of the reading, math and science abilities of children in 74 countries, India ranked second-to-last, beating only Kyrgyzstan. Since then, it has refused to participate in the survey, and the RTE Act has only made matters worse.

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