Here’s how to choose between Public and Private (International) Schools in Singapore

Every parent wishes for their kids to have the best education and while most people don’t agree what a great education looks like, statistics and results show that it’s the combination of creativity with engagement, focused yet practical, and data-driven matched with futuristic thinking.

Seven Amazing Benefits of Meditation for Students

Brittney M. Helmrich

Students nowadays have been living a very busy life, doing their best to make the most of their everyday life. Whether it’s your studies, family, friends or your significant other, making sure that you have everything in order is not a small feat. In fact, with such a busy schedule, you might just forget about taking care of your own needs. But finding some time to ease your mind and relax is very important. If you want to give yourself a break from your very hectic student life, meditate. Here are some of its benefits.

Ways of Coping with Stress Writing Research Papers

As a college student, you will have a lot of research papers and other homework to complete. Some students have jobs in addition to doing their homework. All of this work can get to be tiring and might even stress you out.

How to Help Your Kids to Succeed with their Studies

Books, blogs and parenting websites are filled with tips on how to spend time with the kids to help with their studies. For most of us, we know this is easier said than done. With the busy lives we have, and the multiple functions we handle with respect to our different roles, it might be quite a difficult objective, trying to engage our kids in their studies.

4 Reasons Why You Should Chase A Career In Education

You have always imagined settling into your career seamlessly; excited to get up every morning and head into work for a busy and challenging day. It took you a little while to pinpoint where you wanted to get to in your career, but scoring your dream job would most certainly involve working in a college or school. Many people ask you why you would want to go back to school. Most of us used to spend our time wishing away the day at school, so why would you want to chase a career in education? Next time somebody asks you why, you can tell them the following pointers:

Online Educational Activities for Kids Stuck in the House

By Jenny Wise

Being stuck in the house because of heavy snow or frigid temperatures is tough for kids. And it’s also tough for you because you’re stuck in the house with them. For the first few days, they may be fine staying in the house reading books, playing video games, or watching TV. But after a while, cabin fever sets in. Then you start hearing the dreaded, “I’m bored. There’s nothing to do!” When you hear those words, don’t panic. There’s plenty of things to do if you have internet access.

A Step By Step Guide To Scoring Your Dream Job

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Most people work jobs that are less than suitable for their talents and personality type. That is because the process of identifying your dream career is long and complicated. Developing the right strategy to achieve your goal is even more challenging. So, lots of folks spend their lives in employment situations that never make them feel fulfilled.

These Industries Are Desperate For Applicants

The job market is more competitive than it has ever been. There is a ridiculous number of applicants for every job opening and, on average, only around 2 percent of people will ever even get to interview stage. When you’re trying to find a career, those odds aren’t great. But it’s not all doom and gloom, there are certain industries that are understaffed and crying out for more good quality applicants. If you start applying in these fields, you stand a much better chance of succeeding.

Love Helping Others? Here Are Your Ideal Career Choices

Whether you’re currently out of work or looking for a career change, specialising in helping others can be a huge change of pace that will give you a completely new take on life. You’ll watch people grow as you give them a hand, you’ll find new meaning in your life and you’ll feel great about the work you do. However, the career choices available to you might not be entirely obvious. There are the go-to career choices such as teaching and education, but there are many other ways to get involved with helping people and turn it into a thriving career.

Five Ways Students Can Live a Healthier Lifestyle

Staying healthy is one of the primary goals of today’s students, as, unlike thirty years ago, they consider it an indelible part of their future. Smoking and drinking alcohol is not in trend, while eating healthy and tracking your sleep are. There are a lot of things, however, that students forget to do or do wrong. Here, we’ve listed the most fundamental ones.

The Role of Women In Society - Essay By a Man

According to the ‘traditional division’ of social roles, both men and women have their own ‘duties’ in different fields of human life. In the USA and Europe, this unspoken division had existed until the middle of the twentieth century. Men were supposed to work and provide their family. Women had two major roles. They had to fulfill their household duties and bring up children. Who made this unofficial division of social roles? Where did it start and what is the situation now?

10 Important Things you Need to Fulfill Before your Graduation!

1. To throw a big party

This may seem too hackneyed but, in fact, you need to have a memorable experience with your group-mates and university friends. Make a big party with interesting contests and lots of pictures. The best option will be to make the party by the pool with cocktails and funny videos or a comedy movie. Several years ahead you will definitely look through the photos and recollect all the best emotions you had during your university years. A party is also a great opportunity to have bonding among your peers and to find really good friends that can become your besties for the rest of you life!

Pros and Cons of Being in a Relationship in College

By Adam Smith

Many young women getting into college either have not had their first relationships and think the new environment may be a great place to be free and experiment. Others have a high school boyfriend, and are wondering whether to continue, or end old things with a new start in college, especially if they're both going to different colleges. There is also the expectation of meeting brand new people and wanting the opportunity to get to know new college friends and acquaintances better. These people will want to know the pros and cons of being in a relationship in college.

Woman in Canada Library P0rn Video Identified & Charged

Another young woman has been charged for being naked in a library in exchange for money. The first was Kendra Sunderland, a 19-year-old former student, who was cited in January, read here, for allegedly performing x-rated acts in the library at Oregon State University.

The offense of this second woman, identified as Alexandra Morra, investigators say, was that she exposed herself and masturbated in front of a camera while in a public library. The woman put on the saucy show as part of her contract with a U.S.-based sex-show company. That company’s lawyer, though, told the press that the woman was fired once the firm learned of her alleged “inappropriate activity.”

Nigerian Girl At Harvard Makes List of Smartest Teenagers, Meets Obama

19 year old Nigerian Saheela Ibraheem, Harvard student, has been recognized as one of the world's 50 smartest teenagers. At 15, she was accepted for admission by 13 top colleges in the United States, including the MIT, Columbia, Princeton and six other Ivy league colleges. She chose Harvard.

And at 19, she'll be graduating from Harvard in May this year. Saheela also had the opportunity to meet President Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama. See more photos of her below...

Mom Arrested After She Beat Daughter for Failing In School & Made Her Wear Embarrassing T-Shirt

A Florida-based mom, 30-year-old Melany Joyce Alexander, has been arrested for child abuse after she beat her middle school daughter for getting all Fs in her classes. The mom beat her daughter with a metal-studded belt, and also made her wear an embarrassing t-shirt announcing her failure.

Above is a photo of the front of the t-shirt she forced her child to wear to school. Check out the back, and a photo of the woman below...

Nigerian Teacher Came Up With Idea For Harvard Visit Fundraiser By Humans of New York

Yesterday, I told you about the fundraiser by Humans of New York photoblogger who has raised almost $1 Million in a donation drive for a school in inner city NY. Read the story here.

But what I didn't know until I looked further into the page was that the Nigerian teacher Ms Achu, pictured above, sparked the idea for the fundraiser to expose and enrich her students through taking them to the prestigious university.

#FreeCommunityCollege‬ - Obama Proposes Making Two Years Of Community College Free

Who else is just loving President Obama right now? I'm so digging how visionary and in touch with the pulse of his country our US president is at all times. President Barack Obama doesn't just sit in the capital and talk, he has an idea of what and where things are pinching and has options on how to fix it.

The President has proposed ‪#‎FreeCommunityCollege‬ for hard-working students across the nation, inspired by ‪#‎TennesseePromise‬, and I'm all for it. Many are too, who prefer their tax money to be used for this than prison funding. I might even go back to school!

Hear the president speak below...

More Than 130 Dead After Taliban Attack Pakistani School Kill Over 100 Children [Photos]

A candle light vigil in Islamabad, for the victims of the school attack in Pesharwar Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP

More than 130 people, and over 100 of them children, have been killed in a Pakistani Taliban attack at an army school in Peshawar, according to local officials.

Six or more attackers, dressed in army uniform, mounted the assault on the school for the children of army personnel shortly after 11am. Hundreds were in the school at the time, the Guardian reports.

The attackers, some of them wearing suicide vests, managed to get into the school from the roof of a van parked next to a wall that abuts a graveyard, according to local police. They began firing at random. Another blew himself up as security guards approached.

Baby With Hole In The Heart Cut 40 Times With Hot Knife To Cure Her Of Pnemonia

A two-month-old Indian baby girl was branded with a hot knife by a local healer attempting to cure her pneumonia. Unknown to the healer, the little baby had a hole in the heart.

Shivani Seheriya had caught the life-threatening infection last month and in desperation, her poverty-stricken mother turned to her village tantric, a traditional therapist used in rural India, for help. He then burnt the child's abdomen with the hot knife over 40 times, convinced it would cure her illness.