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Japan: For many children from disaster-stricken Miyagi and Fukushima, the new school year is starting a long way from home

South Korea Parents and officials bemused as teens strip off for human pyramids and are forcibly dunked or pelted with eggs

Seoul bans corporal punishment in schools, but teachers in the rest of the country remain free to be creatively cruel. Michael Fitzpatrick reports

South Korea Seoul bans corporal punishment in schools, but teachers in the rest of the country remain free to be creatively cruel

Schools face heavy cuts as an indebted government plans to save billions. But they are not giving in without a fight, writes Michael Fitzpatrick

Italy Schools face heavy cuts as an indebted government plans to save billions. But they are not taking them without a fight