n Al-Qaeda front group in Syria says girls in a village it controls will not be allowed to attend school unless they wear Islamic clothing, a monitoring group said Saturday. In Tweihineh, "the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant... has forbidden girls in primary education and above from attending school unless they wear fully Islamic clothing including an abayaRead more

Young Irish emigrants tend to be better educated than average, UPI cited a survey on 'austerity emigration' to be presented Saturday as saying. The survey found 62 % of people between the ages of 25 and 34 who leave the country have a 'third-level qualification,' The Irish Times reported. That is training, usually aimed at a specific job, that isRead more

A 25-year-old female Chinese student of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was killed Friday noon in her apartment a few blocks north of the campus, police said. Local police told Chinese reporters that they have arrested the victim's ex-boyfriend, who is a doctorate student at UIUC, as a suspect. The authorities declined to identify the victim, but said theyRead more

A Connecticut man with kidney disease says he has created a Facebook page designed to find a donor willing to offer a life-saving kidney. Brad Vernet, 48, a Groton, Conn., elementary school science teacher born with only one kidney, learned Sept. 13 his kidney function was down to 14 percent, just above the threshold for dialysis treatment, ABC News reported.Read more

One out of every 10 middle and high school students in South Korea smokes, with the habit starting at an average age of 12.6, the education ministry said Thursday. According to the Ministry of Education, a survey of 80,000 students attending some 800 middle and high schools throughout the country found that 11.6 percent of them were smokers as ofRead more

The upper house of Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved a bill which involves controversial reform of the country's Academy of Science (RAN), amid strong protest from scientists. The bill, approved nearly anonymously in the Russian Federal Council (FC), will be presented to President Vladimir Putin for signature. "The work (of reforming the RAN) has not been completed. The FC isRead more

Before she came to study in the United States through the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program, Larissa Almeida Sento Se Nunes never thought chemical engineers had much influence in the world of pharmaceuticals. But after working an internship this past summer at Merck & Co.—the New Jersey-based international pharmaceutical firm—Nunes has gained a new awareness for the role that chemical engineeringRead more

Pennsylvania schools may have gotten a bump in state funding in 2013-14, but education advocates say school districts are still reeling from deep cuts in previous years. “Some school districts have closed libraries, some school districts have changed their transportation pattern, they’ve cut athletics,” said Mark Miller, vice president of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and Centennial School District boardRead more

Turkish Minister of National Education Nabi Avci received Abd al-Razaq al-Ashwal, Yemeni Education Minister on Wednesday. Avci made statements to press members before the meeting which took place at Turkish minister's office, informing about the number of Yemeni students studying in Turkey. 159 Yemeni students are studying at Turkish universities, said the Turkish minister. Upon a reporter's question about theRead more

A British schoolboy described as a "model pupil" on Tuesday admitted robbing a bank while carrying a fake gun. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, held up a branch of Barclays bank in Liverpool, northwest England, on Friday and made off with £2,000 ($3,200, 2,400 euros), the city's youth court heard. His mother turned him over toRead more