The income gap between college-diploma holders without special capabilities and high-school-graduate professionals widened in 2010 from 17 years earlier, a report showed Wednesday, sparking woes over the deepening gap in education levels. According to a quarterly report by the Bank of Korea, college graduates with no specialized skills had incomes 28.9 percent higher than high-school-graduate professionals in 2010. The numberRead more

A German state has banned Facebook contact between students and teachers, citing the social media network's storage of personal data for commercial purposes, officials said Tuesday. Teachers chatting with students online and giving them access to photos and personal information also jeopardises professional distance, cautioned a message on the policy sent to teachers this week in Rhineland-Palatinate state. "More andRead more

A keen-eyed California high school student has been credited with finding the smallest, youngest and most complete duck-billed dinosaur fossil ever found. Kevin Terris, a student at The Webb Schools, a private high-school campus outside of Los Angeles, stumbled on the fossil -- which professional paleontologists had missed -- on a field trip to Utah sponsored by the Raymond M.Read more

As the latest effort to promote Australia's education export to China, Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Robb is expected to participate in a series of education activities during his visit to China this week. Robb will attend the opening of a joint graduate school and a joint research institute by Monash University and Southeast University in Suzhou China, aRead more

The 2nd Vocational Guidance Forum kicked off today themed (Towards insightful, futuristic and productive horizons) with participation of 225 social guidance specialists from the three stages of schooling. The Minister of Education, H.E. Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, emphasized in his inaugural speech the significance of maintaining an equilibrium between student needs, aptitudes and dispositions on the one hand andRead more

Spanish students began a three-day strike on Tuesday against cutbacks in the state education system and a government's project which forces pupils to choose earlier either an academic or a vocational path. The Spanish cabinet approved on May 17, 2013 a controversial new bill, the Organic Law for the Improvement of Educational Quality (LOMCE), which forces students to choose eitherRead more

Police in India said they charged the principal of a school in India where 23 students died after eating poison-laced food with murder. Meena Kumari, 36, and her husband, Arjun Rai, were charged for the incident, in which 48 children were sickened, 23 of whom died, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Forensic scientists found monocrotophos, an insecticide that's toxicRead more

The equilibrium between English and Chinese may eventually be lost in scholastic admission tests, as Beijing redistributes subject scores. Currently, the two languages, along with math, have the same weighting. Beijing education authority wants to raise the value of Chinese by shifting points from English to Chinese in college and senior high school entrance exams from 2016, and started solicitingRead more

Chinese overseas-educated talent will play an important role in reform , vice chairman of the Western Returned Scholars Association Wang Huiyao said Monday. "Chinese overseas-educated scholars will continue to play a vital role in promoting the country's transformation into an innovation-driven economy in the next three decades," said Wang in an exclusive interview with Xinhua. China has expanded the numberRead more

China attaches great importance to educational development of the whole nation and lifelong learning, said Vice Premier Liu Yandong here on Monday. Liu made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Learning Cities, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from Oct. 21 to 23 in Beijing. "In the 21st century, theRead more