A Scots teacher was so drunk on the night she allegedly kissed a pupil that a colleague was surprised she was even able to stand, a hearing was told. Ashley McConnell said she visited several bars and was ordering two drinks at a time as well as shots during a night out in Thurso, Caithness,
Around 20,000 foreign nationals living in Japan did not finish junior high school and only graduated elementary school, according to findings in the latest national census, prompting the government to call on municipalities to reinforce measures promoting night school. According to the census released in late May, a total of 804,293 people in Japan age
An East Kilbride primary school has made it to the final of the Keep Scotland Beautiful Pocket Garden competition once again. Greenhills Primary are the only school in the town to have made it through and are looking for support from the town. Pupils were challenged to design and create a mini-garden and out of
South Lanarkshire has confirmed the team that will take part in the International Children’s Games in August. In December last year, councillors agreed to provide funding to allow children to take part in the event in Coventry. The games will take place over six days from August 11 to 16, with more than 1600 young
Myanmar’s junta reopened basic education schools across the country for the 2022-2023 academic year on Thursday with student enrollment levels surpassing those from a year earlier, when the pandemic and a teacher boycott of the military regime kept kids at home, according to parents and residents. In the commercial capital Yangon, the number of students
Thousands of volunteers have turned out to help clean up Renfrewshire as part of a council initiative. Dozens of pupils from the area’s schools helped boost the Big Spring Clean – part of the Team Up to Clean Up campaign. During April’s month of action, which aimed to spruce up the area and remove litter
A devastated family who are heartbroken after their five-year-old child was killed as she walked out of school have paid tribute to the ‘fun-loving’ youngster. Minaal Salam was coming out of school when she was knocked down by a grey Volkswagen Touran on Friday, April 1. Schoolgirl Minaal suffered a heart attack as a result
Franz Ferdinand found themselves trending online after a teacher tried to use their name as a reference in a First Wold war lesson. The Scots art-poppers are named after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, whose assassination ( along with his wife Sophie) on June 28, 1914, provided
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