KUALA LUMPUR: Most students who habitually play truant actually want to go to school but are turned off by bad experiences. This is among the surprising findings by two academicians who conducted ...

Schools should steer away from a 'punitive approach' towards truancy and teachers should drop sarcasm when welcoming pupils back to lessons, experts have said. A report by the ImpactEd Group, a ...

That’s 66% of teachers who are off at any one time, which translates into 2.5M sick days a year. So it isn’t surprising that ...

Truancy as a remnant of the pandemic is keeping the courts busy. In Upper Austria, for example, there are around 60 children who are forced by their parents to stay at home with mommy and daddy ...

Wands at the ready wizards! Hogwarts Legacy 2 has been announced and Harry Potter fans know what they want to see in the new ...

The children's commissioner said some children play truant while others experience anxiety or have educational needs so find it easier at home. Parents should get children back to school ...

Even when his parents returned after two weeks, he continued to play truant for three months, he says, flashing his report card to show how many school days he missed. “They sent me for ...

Play is used to understand what is on a child’s mind because play is children’s natural medium of expression. While play therapy, like all therapy, is conducted by way of appointment, few ...

2. Part Two - Things don't quite go 'perfick' when Charley decides to play truant from his office at the Inland Revenue and go strawberry picking with Mariette & the rest of the Larkin family ...

He began to use the drug regularly and play truant. Soon he was thrown out of his family home and stopped playing football completely. Finally, a serious car accident, and badly broken arm ...

TOKYO, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Some 346,482 elementary and junior high school students in Japan were classified as truant in the last school year, marking the eleventh consecutive annual increase and ...