Southwest China's Yunnan Province signed a memorandum supplement with Laos on Saturday to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in education, culture, health and media. Under the supplement between the Yunnan Provincial Education Department and the Ministry of Education and Sports of Laos, the two sides will jointly produce TV programs on Chinese language learning and the teaching of specialized subjects andRead more

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) has denounced anew continuous attacks against schools in the Kingdom of Bahrain, dismissing the acts of sabotage that target schools as categorically unacceptable. In this regard, the Education Ministry's Undersecretary for Educational Affairs and Curricula and member of ISESCO's Executive Council Dr. Abdulla Youssef Al-Mutawa said that the stance was voiced duringRead more

The UK is the only nation where our young people have less mastery of the basics than the adult population as a whole If there was one thing that everybody was agreed upon about the OECD’s skills report, it was that the results. As far as the UK is concerned – the results were disappointing, shocking, a wake-up call toRead more

Today is International Day of the Girl. It provides a timely opportunity to reflect on the important role education plays in creating better lives for girls and families in developing countries. It is staggering that 35 million girls around the world are missing out on a primary school education. Significant barriers prevent them from realising their dreams. Some drop outRead more

Houthis attacked Friday students in Dammaj in northern Yemen and their houses using mortar shells, leaving three students dead in al-Baraqa Mountain. The attack came after the Houthis received 10 bodies of persons killed in clashes with Salafis from the Red Cross. Dammaj area is still under siege for the fourth day in a row and citizens are being intimidatedRead more

Southwest China's Guizhou Province has launched a scholarship program for students from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The scholarship, to be offered twice a year from the 2013 autumn semester, is aimed at attracting more students from the ASEAN to study at Chinese colleges or universities, according to sources with the provincial educational authorities. ASEAN students who areRead more

A case of suspected food poisoning in east China's Anhui Province has led to 29 students being hospitalized, local authorities said on Friday. The students from the Suzhou Experimental School of Peking University began suffering from headaches, nausea and bellyache at about 3 p.m. on Thursday after having lunch at the school canteen, according to the emergency response office ofRead more

Fu Yu stood in the shady yard of the Chinese Academy of sciences and pointed to a building to be completed soon. "I will have my own laboratory there, inside the new building of the Institute of Microbiology," he said. In January, the 40-year-old scientist left Harvard and returned to China. He said he looked forward to completion of hisRead more

Ten domestic cartoon production agencies and 10 broadcasters on Thursday issued a written proposal that calls for a ban on uncivilized, vulgar and violent cartoons. Major producers behind its drafting include CCTV Animation, Beijing Uyoung Media and Shenzhen Huaqiang Holdings Ltd, while major broadcasters include children's or cartoon channels of China Central Television (CCTV) and provincial TV stations in areasRead more

Minister of Education Mohammad Thneibat on Wednesday decided that public schools will start the Eid Al Adha break on Sunday, October 13, a day before the official holiday. Schools will compensate for the day on Saturday, October 26, under the decision.Read more