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Image via Wikipedia ------------------- THIS year marks the 40th anniversary of James Cook University (JCU), an Australian institution ranked among the top 5 per cent of international universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education . Established in 1970 in Queensland , Australia, JCU set up its Singapore campus in 2003. According to Professor Sandra Harding , vice chancellor and president of JCU, Singapore was a natural choice for the university, given the latter's focus on the tropics. "JCU is committed to working on issues associated with the tropical world, such as issues of ecology, conservation, health and disease, earth and environmental science , and indigenous people and cultures. Being advanced economies in the tropics, both Singapore and Australia have important leadership roles to play in these issues." Hence, JCU is able to differentiate itself from other Australian degree providers in Singapore by offering a full...

Image via Wikipedia 'Monster parents' plague Japan 's schools Posted: 23 March 2010 1258 hrs TOKYO - Breakfast for parents at day-care centres, laundry and nail-clipping done at school, a pick-up service by teachers -- these are some of the requests from Japan's so-called "monster parents". The increasingly outrageous demands have driven teachers' stress levels to record heights and led the Tokyo city government to publish a handbook on tips to cope with them. More than 60,000 teachers and other workers at Tokyo's public schools will get a copy by the end of March in a 10-million-yen (110,000-US-dollar) project. "There are so many," a Tokyo teacher said as she recalled complaints her elementary school has received. "A mother rings us at 7:30am and keeps nagging for two hours... One morning she was saying 'Why did you make my child speak before other children ? My child doesn't like to make a speech...'," s...