Insist all homework is done promptly (and find out what it should be). Then, and only then, he can play with friends provided he is home by, say, eight on school days and nine at weekends.

A mother has been jailed for failing to stop her children playing truant. Patricia Amos, 43, was sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment by magistrates at Banbury, Oxfordshire, last week for not ...

Cast: Diane Kruger, Nikolai Tsankov, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jeffrey Donovan Director: A.J. Edwards Rating: 2/5 Runtime: 96 min “First Love” is a sincere but rather mundane romance sutured into a ...

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 ...

One of the most important things a person could receive is an education. Why would we take it for granted? Some do, some like ...

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 ...

In a tragic incident, Teacher’s Day turned out to be the last day for a Class VIII student of Government Senior Secondary School, Kishenpura, who drowned in Sirsa Khud at Baddi last evening.

London, 1961. Two teenage girls - Ginger and Rosa - are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their mother's frustrated ...

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 ...

Playing truant and still in their school blazers, they went in search of the stage door. “There was not a soul in the street,” says Brown today. “That wouldn’t have happened any time after ...

Watch the announcement trailer for Rogue Flight, an arcade-style ship combat game developed by Truant Pixels. Players will ...

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 ...