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Bullying is a fixture in the classroom. Many students and children fear their bullies and find it is not the difficult to remember a bully in their school. Cyberbuillying has recently emerged and is booming. Students and children cannot escape it due the impersonal nature of online communication.

Schools have a role in preventing cyberbuillying and are thus the best line of communication for the following 10 reasons.

1. Teach respect:

Schools are well situated to instill respect in students. Many programs like Tribes are designed to form mutual respect in the classroom and in schools. Character Education is another one that could be implemented. Students are rewarded for good behaviour and for following good character traits.

2. Schools interact with students:

Students are in school for 40 hours a week. They spend more time with their teachers than with their parents. Teachers act as a role model and should work to interact with students to teach them the right from the wrong.

3. Civic & Social Development:

Schools also have the responsibility for the civic and social development of their students. Brown vs. Education Supreme Court case recognized the importance of opening up students to the differing cultural values.

4. See first signs:

Schools usually are the ones who witness the first signs of bullying. There are other underlying reasons which sometimes lead to bullying online. They usually occur in person at first.

5. Punish & Prevent:

Iowa Law Review argues that teachers and administrators are appropriate actors for punishing and preventing cyber bullying. At times it is hard to identify the cases unless the victim speaks to a staff member.

Bullying is a major issue nowadays. Many schools have adopted the restorative approach, which has the bully and the student being bullied sitting in a room, discussing their issues. Neither one can leave the room if there is no resolution. If you see any of the following signs of bullying, report them to the appropriate people. If you do not, you will become a part of the bullying problem.

1. Scars:

2. Isolation:

When a child is bullied, they don’t feel the need to talk to anyone but themselves. They can stay in their room for hours and hours without realizing that they are alone. The child may neglect their own friends and not make any new ones. If you ask them why they don’t have any friends, they may say, “Because I don’t need any friends.” The child may also be isolated from their family as well. In this situation, a pet such as a cat or a dog may be useful. The pet may be the only friend the child can really confide too.

3. Anger:

In times of bullying, a child may feel angry all the time. A child would never smile and would get angry at the smallest of things, such as their mother asking if they want food. The child may come home from school and without even a “Hi, how are you?” storm to their room.

4. Slipping Grades:

Children who are bullied often do not care about school work. They avoid it because even when they are in class, they think about the time they are abused, physically or emotionally. At home, they cry and therefore, have no time to open any books and notebooks. They never listen to what a teacher has to say in class. Make sure you always know how your child is doing at school, once every 2 months at the most, because a lot could happen in those two months.

5. Denial:

Children often deny they are being bullied. Reason may be that they are embarrassed because they can’t take care of the situation themselves, or they feel it will go away by itself. Even if you have your child talk to a social worker, they may not say anything to them, especially if you are in the room with them. Make sure you talk to your child’s teachers and classmates to ask whether they see there is something different about your child’s behavior, and whether they think someone is hurting your child.

A Master of Business Administration degree is a guarantee of a great career in the fields of Finance, Marketing or Human Resources. No wonder that students every year are curious to find out the top ten Universities of the World with a great MBA program. The stalwarts of the business schools vie with each other for the rankings. The top ten keep shifting places up and down the list but otherwise the following ten business schools are the accepted leaders of the world in the field of business education.

1. London Business School

The MBA at London Business School has been elbowing out the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania for the number one spot for the last two years and looks like it is going to hold on to this place for the year 2011. Successful candidate to this business school have a score above 700 in the GMAT. LBS as it is called is a member college of the University of London and is situated centrally in London beside Regent’s Park. A thousand students from at least a hundred and thirty countries of the world graduate from this business school every year.

2. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The number two spot goes to Wharton School which is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania. It is the first business school in the United States of America and was established in 1881. It is a very selective school in its student enrolment and depends on a high GPA and GMAT scores for its selection besides other criteria. Since 2009 it accepts the GRE along with GMAT for its admissions. The first collegiate MBA in the world was established by Joseph Wharton a Philadelphia industrialist. The Wharton School offers nineteen majors which are admirably taught by 250 members of the faculty. The concentration of subjects includes, finance, marketing, human resources, business ethics and legal studies.

3. Harvard Business School

The number three ranking goes to Harvard Business School which was established in the year 1908. Harvard is a private business school with an endowment of more than two billion dollars. It has more than eighteen hundred students in its MBA programs. It is located at Boston but is on the other side of the Charles River from the rest of the University. A very quaint feature of all the buildings at Harvard is that they are connected by underground tunnels. The attributes expected from successful Harvard MBA programs include leadership, intellectual curiosity and a concern and desire to serve the world community.  Harvard is famous for its case study method of teaching in the business school.

4. Stanford University GSB

Stanford Graduate School of Business ranks fourth in the MBA list. It was established in 1925 and is located at Stanford, California. It has one of the largest endowments at more than a billion dollars. A star cast of Nobel Laureates, members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences, makes up the faculty of this prestigious college. It is very selective in its system of admission for its students and has the lowest rate of acceptance in the world, that is, it only selects 6.8% of all the students who apply for its MBA. It has less than four hundred students per year, a near one fifth of the students at Harvard. Its former students include Ben Bernanke, Phil Knight founder of Nike and President John F. Kennedy.

5. INSEAD

The number five spot in MBAs goes to INSEAD (Institut Europeen d’Administration des Affaires) or European Institute of Business Administration. It is located on three campuses in the world. In Europe it is at Fontainebleau, near Paris in France. In Asia it is situated in Singapore and in the Middle East at Abu Dhabi. It is generally recognized as the top business school for the one year program in the world. The MBA offers all the core subjects like Finance, Marketing and Accounting. The program includes case studies, lectures, tutorials and simulations. The business school was established in 1957 and has nearly nine hundred MBA students every year. It is fast coming up as a threat to the top three.