26/04/2012 | Argentina

Nursery school teacher accused of tying up one of her pupils

A nursery school teacher was removed from her position today, after being accused of tying a 4-year-old girl to a chair in a children’s nursery in the city of Buenos Aires.

24/07/2012 | Argentina

School takeovers 'are a triumph of democracy,' Sileoni

Education Minister Alberto Sileoni assured that the student-led takeovers of several high schools in the City are “a triumph of democracy” and stressed that “they should be celebrated because it is proof of political maturity.”

14/10/2012 | Argentina

City Gov't extends academic year in secondary schools on protests

The City Government announced the extension of the academic year for all secondary schools that were taken over by students protesting against a syllabus change, the Education Ministry announced.

02/11/2011 | Argentina

Train collides with school bus in San Luis, at least 8 dead

A cargo train crashed into a school bus this afternoon, with 40 fifth grade students on board in the town of Las Zanjitas, San Luis province. According to local sources, there are eight dead and three remain at the ICU seriously injured. The bus and train drivers remain under protective custody.

03/11/2011 | Argentina

San Luis judge: School bus driver was 'wearing headphones, jumped out of bus'

The bus driver of the school bus that was hit by a train on Wednesday in the San Luis province killing six girls and two teachers was allegedly wearing headphones and when he realized the train was upon them, he jumped from the vehicle leaving the passengers inside.

10/12/2011 | Argentina

CFK calls for compliance with school calendar

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner assured that “economy has laws and rules that aren’t enforced only by law or decree,” and regarding education, she requested “more quality not only in students but in teachers as well,” while addressing the Legislative Assembly during her inauguration ceremony.

18/05/2011 | Argentina

UBA suggests school year extension at Pellegrini to make up for lost classes

The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) suggested to extend the school year to December 29th, add classes on Saturdays and during the winter holidays and even send students to school on January of 2012 to recover the 15 days of lost classes at the Carlos Pellegrini school, which has remained under a student takeover for the last three weeks.

19/05/2011 | Argentina

Pellegrini school's dean quits as takeover continues

As the students of the Carlos Pellegrini school continue with the takeover, dean Jorge Fonasari quit and said he “didn’t want to become an obstacle” in the solution of the conflict.

30/06/2011 | Argentina

High school students stage protest at City’s Education Ministry

A group of high school students from the High School Students Unified Coordination (CUES) are staging a protest at the entrance of the City’s Education Ministry building.

10/05/2011 | Argentina

Sileoni takes balanced approach to Pellegrini school conflict

Education Minister Alberto Sileoni spoke out about the conflict issues in the Pellegrini school and took a balanced approach by saying that he supported “institutionalism” because “there’s no institution without authority,” but at the same time he did underline that youngsters “should be heard out.”

10/05/2011 | Argentina

Pellegrini students to continue school takeover

Pellegrini students will continue the school’s takeover and blockade of its authorities, while teachers and parents met with Buenos Aires University representatives to try to solve the conflict. As long as the students, who are against the way some school officials were appointed, do not lift the measure, they will not be invited to discuss.

11/05/2011 | Argentina

UBA begin new talks with Pellegrini students, parents

Members of the vice-chancellors office at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) agreed to meet with teachers, parents and students of the Carlos Pellegrini school today, to open a new discussion over the conflict that has plagued the school with authority troubles in recent weeks

13/04/2011 | Argentina

Pellegrini students take over school once again

Carlos Pellegrini students have taken over the school once again, due to the "lack of answers of Buenos Aires University (UBA) authorities" to their claims.

04/05/2011 | Argentina

Students enforce another takeover at Carlos Pellegrini School

Students of the Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini took over the school once again, protesting for the changes which they had previously asked to be made. They are expected to continue to block the entrance to the school disabling access for authorities trying to enter, and have caused for all school activites to be cancelled.

09/05/2011 | Argentina

Students decide to continue Pellegrini school takeover

The students gathered in assembly in the Carlos Pellegrini High School decided to maintain the school takeover at least until Wednesday and to keep a ban on school authorities from entering the premises. The school’s acting headmaster warned that “disciplinary measures will be enacted” against the students. 

23/12/2012 | World

US gun lobby defends call for armed guards at schools

The leader of the US gun lobby defended his call for placing armed guards in all American schools despite withering criticism of the group's response to the massacre of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut.

03/01/2013 | World

New Sandy Hook school opens after attack

Twenty days after the massacre that left 20 first graders and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, plunging a rural New England town and the nation into grief, classes resumed today for the more than 400 students who lived through the harrowing assault.

15/12/2012 | World

Obama urges solidarity as US mourns shooting victims

President Barack Obama urged Americans today to join in solidarity as they mourn the victims of a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, saying the hearts of parents across the country were "heavy with hurt" for the lives lost.

15/12/2012 | World

Police identify victims of Connecticut school shooting

17/12/2012 | World

Schools in two other Connecticut towns in lockdown

Schools in two Connecticut towns were in lockdown today, the first day children returned to class since Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

07/06/2012 | World

Man confesses to Italy school bombing

A 68-year-old man has confessed to last month's bombing in front of a southern Italian school that killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded 10 others, but his motive is unclear and investigations are ongoing, police said.

14/12/2012 | World

Tearful Obama calls for action after school shooting

A tearful US President Barack Obama expressed "overwhelming grief" today for the victims of a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school and called on US citizens to set aside politics and take "meaningful action" to prevent further tragedies of this kind.

14/12/2012 | World

Argentines in Connecticut astonished

24/05/2012 | World

Italian Red Brigades 'deny planting school bomb'

A letter purporting to be from Italy's radical left-wing Red Brigades denies that the group, responsible for numerous attacks in the 1970s, planted a bomb that killed a schoolgirl in Brindisi last week, a news agency said.

28/05/2012 | World

Friend groups may encourage kids to be more active

Kids in after-school programs often increase their own physical activity if they make friends who run and jump around more than they do, a new study from Tennessee has found.

06/06/2012 | World

Italy holds suspect for school bombing

Italian police took into custody a 68-year-old man for last month's bombing in front of a school that killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded 10 others.

19/04/2011 | World

Kindergartner's gun injures 3 at Houston school

A pistol brought to Ross Elementary School by a 6-year-old kindergarten student fell to the cafeteria floor and discharged today, slightly injuring three children, a Houston school district spokesman said.

14/01/2012 | World

First class graduates from Oprah's South Africa school

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey proudly saw the first class of girls from disadvantaged backgrounds graduate today from her US$40 million school in South Africa.

19/05/2012 | World

Bomb at south Italy school kills teenager, wounds six

A bomb exploded in front of a school in southern Italy killing a 16 year-old girl and wounding at least six others, two seriously, authorities said.

07/04/2011 | Latin America

Brazil gunman kills 12, self at Río de Janeiro school

A Brazilian gunman killed 12 children at a Río de Janeiro school and then himself, police said, shocking the South American nation that has never seen such an incident before.

12/05/2012 | Entertainment

Tanned mum action figure created by US novelty toy company

A novelty toy company has created an action figure modelled on the deeply bronzed New Jersey mother charged with child endangerment and accused of taking her then 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth.