Two people were killed and two injured in a shooting Monday at a Nevada middle school, in west United States, school officials said. According to police update, one person killed Monday morning at Sparks Middle School was a teacher and the other is what authorities described as a student/suspect. Two Sparks Middle School students have identified a popular math teacherRead more

More than 118,000 Afghan pupils are going to schools in Tehran Province, said Issa Mousavinasab, the Director-General of the Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Department of Tehran Governorate General. Mousavinasab said that the Afghan nationals are studying at the province's schools based on a tripartite agreement reached among the UNHCR, the Afghan government and Iran. He said in 1981 when AfghanRead more

Minister of Education, Dr. Majid Bin Ali Al Nuaimi inaugurated Students Information Centre, with the presence of a number of officials at the ministry and the cooperative bodies with the centre, where the ceremony included some media events carried out by the students of the centre. Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi stressed the ministry’s concern for the gifted students in theRead more

At least one student at a Nevada middle school was shot Monday morning as classes got under way, causing the school to be evacuated, officials say. Officials in the town of Sparks said the alleged shooter was dead, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. The shooting occurred about 7:30 a.m. at Sparks Middle School, police said. The school was initially locked down,Read more

Hundreds of Al-Azhar University students clashed with security forces in Cairo after they tried to protest in the Rabaa al-Adaweya Square, authorities said. The students had blocked a road and were calling for the return of former president Mohamed Morsi. The protesters were also calling for the release of students who were allegedly arrested during previous demonstrations, al-Masry al-Youm reported.Read more

Turkish police fired tear gas canisters on students gathered to protest the beginning of controversial works on a road through their university campus in Ankara. Security forces shielded workers and diggers as they began uprooting trees in a park on the site of Middle East Technical University (METU) in the Turkish capital on Friday night, AFP reported. Dozens of studentsRead more

A group of Canadian college students is trying to raise money to create a satellite that will test a new material that can heal itself. Space Concordia, made up of Concordia University Engineering students, designed the ConSat-1 three years ago to study the South Atlantic Anomaly, an area in space that causes electronic equipment to malfunction, CBC News reported Saturday.Read more

Turkish police have fired tear gas on students protesting the start of controversial works on a road through their university campus in Ankara. The tear gas was fired late on Friday as security forces shielded workers and diggers who began uprooting trees in a park on the site of Middle East Technical University (METU) in the Turkish capital on FridayRead more

UK demand for money lessons in schools is the highest in Europe, according to survey. The demand for financial education in UK schools is the highest in Europe, according to a survey. Research by the organisation Ipsos for banking group ING found that 88pc of adults in the UK said financial education should be taught in schools; the highest levelRead more

The Uganda Science Education Programme (USEP) has launched an academic progressive score card to monitor the quality of science learning and teaching in secondary schools. The score card, a school based monitoring tool, is aimed at improving science education in the country. It seeks to answer questions of whether teaching is taking place, how good it is and how toRead more