Ten people were hospitalized with injuries from a crash Friday involving a school bus and a pickup truck near Calgary, Alberta, officials said. The truck collided with the bus -- carrying nine students of the Rocky View School Division, ranging in age from kindergarten to high school -- east of the town of Crossfield, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. OneRead more

Governor of North Sinai Abdel Fattah Harhour said on Thursday that study will start in all schools in the governorate as of Saturday. The academic year will kick off in all schools and stages without postponement, the governor said. Study in North Sinai was postponed four times over security reasons in the peninsula.Read more

The demolition of Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School has quietly begun, Newtown's highest elected official said 10 months after the mass murder. "Small scale demo activity has begun and will accelerate over the next days," First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra told television station WVIT, West Hartford, Conn. "The process of demolition is incremental, staged precisely and executed carefully," she said. "ThereRead more

China's Southeast University and Australia's Monash University have officially opened a joint graduate school in the eastern city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. The Southeast University-Monash University Joint Graduate School is the first sino-foreign graduate facility approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The school is committed to providing quality graduate education with global standards and carrying out top-level joint research,Read more

A school in England was temporarily closed Wednesday because of reports of an infestation of false widow spiders, officials said. Exterminators were called to the Dean Academy in Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire to deal with the spiders, the Daily Mirror reported. The story was the latest in a string involving the spiders, formally known as steatoda nobilis. They areRead more

Police have arrested three suspects in an armed robbery that took place in a Georgia State University dormitory, campus officials said Thursday. The robbery happened shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday in Building C at the University Commons, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Three suspects knocked on a dorm room door and pointed a hand gun in a student's face, police said.Read more

The Ministry of Social Affairs and the Damascus Governorate on Wednesday distributed 3,610 school bags among students in various schools in Damascus. Social Affairs Minister Kinda al-Shammat told journalists that the government is committed to providing educations services, and that this initiative seeks to encourage children from affected families to continue their studies, in addition to reduce the burdens ofRead more

A 14-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday with murdering a female math teacher in the Danvers High School in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, local media reported. The student, identified as Philip Chism, was arraigned in a court for suspected killing of Colleen Ritzer, 24, a popular math teacher at the school. Chism was ordered held without bail, theRead more

Bahraini Minister of Education Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi said Wednesday that he tackled during his visit to Kuwait ways of bolstering cooperation in the field of education especially the higher education. He noted that the discussions focused on the issue of the Bahraini university whose license was cancelled and the conditions of Kuwaiti students enrolled. In a press statement, theRead more

Fort Worth school officials took the first step Tuesday night toward creating an independent organization to raise money to support projects that affect teachers and students. Trustees voted 9-0 to hire the consultant Foundation Innovation for $36,000, plus travel and expenses, to help the school district’s grants and development, management and monitoring department do the legwork to create the foundation,Read more