Kuwait is giving a steadfast support to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) since it believes that this international body strives to bring different people together and to develop world communities, Kuwaiti Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Nayef Al-Hajraf stressed, Tuesday. The minister made this remark to KUNA after meeting with UNESCO's Director-General IrinaRead more

Weapons found in a Denver middle school after the arrest of two 15-year-old boys are "more than likely BB guns," police said Tuesday. Denver police said the guns were found in a sweep of the school after the teenagers broke in into the building Monday night and ransacked several classrooms, NBC News reported. Janitors had reported seeing two people insideRead more

A total of 32 children were injured as the school bus they were travelling in overturned on Tuesday, police reported. The bus crashed in the mining city of Krugersdorp in the province of Gauteng. Eight children suffered moderate injures and the others slightly injured. The driver was also injured. The cause of the accident remains unclear. In the recent years,Read more

China will soon surpass Morocco to become the largest source of overseas students to France, according to a prediction by Laure Castin, an attache in charge of university cooperation at the French Embassy in China. Currently, about 35,000 Chinese students are studying in France, and the figure is expected to reach 50,000 in 2015, according to Castin. In 2012, theRead more

Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Nayef Al-Hajraf arrived in Paris Monday to participate in the 37th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), scheduled to start tomorrow. Upon arrival, Al-Hajraf was received by Kuwait Ambassador to France Ali Al-Saeed, Kuwait Permanent Representative to UNESCO Ambassador Dr. Ali Al-Tarrah, and embassy staff. The ministerRead more

Omar bin Khattab School and Al Qadisia Boys School cruised into the pre-quarter-finals of the Group ‘B’ of the volleyball tournament of the Schools Olympic Programme (SOP) 2013-2014, here last night. Khattab beat Al Andalus private 2-0 while Abi Ayoub Al Ansari outclassed Jordanian School 2-0. In another Group B match, Al Qadisia defeated Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani 2-0Read more

New York firefighters Sunday busted through a wall to free a 19-year-old college student wedged between two buildings in Lower Manhattan. WNBC-TV, New York, reported a fire department official said Asher Vongtau was stuck in a 1 1/2- to 2-foot-wide space between a New York University dormitory and a neighboring parking garage. It took firefighters 1 1/2 hours to extricateRead more

New York University Shanghai began accepting 2014 enrollment applications yesterday, expanding its recruitment scope to all Chinese mainland students, according to a school information session held yesterday. The country’s first Sino-US joint venture university opened in September with an enrollment of 300 students. In 2014, it will also recruit 300 students — 151 from the mainland and 149 from overseas.Read more

Russian educational authorities will make extra efforts to welcome Chinese students and push forward Sino-Russian cooperation in the field of education, a Russian diplomat said on Saturday. Yevgeniy Tomikhin, a diplomat with the Russian Embassy in China, made the comments at a two-day international education exhibition, which was held in Beijing and attended by more than 40 Russian institutions ofRead more

Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Nayef Al-Hajraf said Sunday the education ministry was working on an ambitious plan to set framework for national curriculum. He underlined the national curriculum framework will serve as the main reference or what he called "the constitution of education process in Kuwait. "The National Curriculum Framework will define the standards of nationalRead more