A 19-year-old student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones of Beeston, Nottingham, wants to excel in Korean Language as she wants to live in Korea in her coming life. The obsession to speak the language properly led her to undertake the lingual frenectomy surgery.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has slammed Bay House School in Hampshire for failing to protect personal details of nearly 20,000 persons, including 7,600 students.

The ICO said that the school breached the Data Protection Act by using the same password for its official website and data management system.

The UK's Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, believes that video games are good for school kids as they can help in the study of science and mathematics.

Speaking at the Royal Society, Mr. Gove said that computer games could make education system more appealing to kids.

Mr. Gove cited mathematics professor Marcus Du Sautoy’s example to point up how computer games can be game changer.

The recent statement by the Oxford University Press head Nigel Portwood, that the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) might likely be ‘digital only’, has caused quite a stir among the people, especially the linguaphiles.

In a long-term research study essentially exploring the uses of interactive computers in educational environments, thereby marking advancements in the field of real-time, social robotics, computer scientists everywhere are developing robots for teaching children.

A report that was presented to creditors of unsuccessful childcare operator ABC Learning Centers has been able to find that the firm overstated the worth of its possessions by $1.2 billion in the first half of 2008.