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 ...

At the time, people were concerned that its lyrics would incite rebelliousness among youngsters, and would perhaps inspire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preventing young people from falling into the hands of unscrupulous gangs is one way to get at the root of the seemingly intractable scourge of fraud. The solution starts at home. Parents need to ...

But many MEPs do play truant, so well done to him for staying on the straight and narrow. 2. As a 39-year-old Executive ...

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 the ...

My mum has done nothing wrong. She used to send my sisters to school, get them dressed, but it is not her fault that they would play truant and come home again. She is being punished for something ...