Federal jury sides with 69-year-old William Wingate, finding officer violated his civil rights after false arrest captured on ...

You’re likely here because you’re tired of looking at and sitting in the same old unattractive, uncomfortable office chair ...

Bianca Jagger knows how to command a red carpet. The glamorous '70s fashion icon and human rights activist, 80, who married ...

RECENTLY, I read a news report about a high court granting relief to a teacher accused of beating a sixth grader — on the ...

SINGAPORE: Modern-day parenting demands copious amounts of caffeine, time and energy. Besides having to tackle an incessant list of to-dos, parents are faced with a deluge of information on how to ...

As someone who experienced corporal punishment in school (only on one occasion - 2 cuts by cane to the palm of both hands) by our Principal the late Mr. E A Wijesooriya in 1950s, at Mahinda College, I ...

Irish writer John McGahern was undoubtedly a master of words, but he was also a teacher and over 60 years ago, I was in his last class. The school involved was Belgrove, Scoil Eoin Baiste (St John the ...

“If every child has to be educated by law it is absolutely essential and very necessary that there shall be discipline, and to teach discipline there must be the fear of punishment”. This was the ...

Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald has put forward the suggestion of corporal punishment to be reintroduced as part of the national debate on crime and justice reform in South Africa.

“How dare you! You don’t forget to eat your lunch, but you forget to bring atlas! fataha paji!” roared Amar Babu as his cane instantaneously rose to bear upon the boy. Decades after leaving school, ...

Rattan canes being sold on an e-commerce platform. Just days before the summer break, social media users have once again lit up with buzz over an unexpected trending item: thousands of rattan canes ...

Earlier this month, the Kerala High Court, hearing the case of a teacher accused of caning a class 6 student, rationalised teachers carrying canes to educational institutions. “Let teachers, if they ...