News
International Education News Round-up
(November 16-22, 2009)
Network sites 'need help buttons'
(BBC News 11/18/2009)
Major social networking websites have been criticized for not introducing a help button for children to report concerns about grooming and bullying.
Girls 'becoming Facebook addicts'
(BBC News 11/16/2009)
Parents fear their daughters are becoming addicted to social networking sites, a girls' school leader says.
China fuels US foreign student boom
(AFP 11/19/2009)
Soaring interest by Chinese students has led to record foreign enrollment at US universities, offering a potential boon to the United States both economically and politically, a study says.
India English growth 'too slow'
(BBC News 11/18/2009)
India is falling behind countries such as China in its attempts to increase the use of English among its population, a new report says.
Students drink more and more often if living in coed dorms
(USA Today 11/17/2009 Greg Toppo)
A new study finds that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms to drink alcohol regularly – and nearly 2½ times as likely to drink to excess on a weekly basis.
Children turned into 'mini-adults'
(The Telegraph 11/16/2009 Martin Beckford)
Children are being treated as “mini-adults” by society, according to an academic.
(Published 23 November 2009, Smart Communications Inc.)
