As part of plans to standardise education in line with international schools, the Abu Dhabi Education Council, ADEC, will re-adjust the minimum admission age for Kindergarten 1 (KG1) or Foundation Stage 2 (FS2) starting from the next academic years 2014 - 2015. Addressing a private schools' orientation conference yesterday, Dr. George Nader, licensing and accreditation manager, ADEC, said the newRead more

The public prosecution in Qena ordered nine students to be remanded in custody pending investigations into charges of blocking the road and attempting to prevent students from entering schools. The rioters had tried to block the road to the students of five schools in the intersection of Martyr Abdel Moneim Riyad St.Read more

Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity (SACGC) concluded a seven-day recreational trip to South Korea for outstanding high school students. Seaking to KUNA on Monday, SACGC Director General Dr. Omar Al-Bannai said: "The trip was part of the center's program creating the suitable conditions for fostering the skills of talented students." "The program includes a host of cultural andRead more

Minister of Education Abd al-Razaq al-Ashwal of Yemen visited northwestern Duzce province wtih a delegation on Monday. Al-Ashwal met with Duzce Governor Ali Ihsan Su and said, "Yemen wishes to make use of Turkey's experiences as it is a developed country among Islamic countries and in the world." Reminding Turkey and Yemen had over 400 year-old friendship, al-Ashwal also said,Read more

Turkish Minister for European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said Monday that he wishes Turkey's democratization package, a set of reforms, which is expected to be announced by the end of September will include reopening of Halki Seminary, Greek Orthodox theological school on Istanbul's Heybeliada, a demand long pursued by Turkey's Greek community. "It is not a matterRead more

The Ministry of Public Works revealed Monday that 69 percent of the new Education Ministry headquarters project has been completed so far. In a press conference at the project site, Ministry of Public Works Assistant Undersecretary for Construction Projects Talal Al-Athaina said the KD 67.7 million-worth project is expected to be entirely completed by February 2015, eight-month later than theRead more

China is to install independent inspectors in all its 300,000 primary and middle schools by the end of this year to improve educational quality and fairness. "These inspectors will be the internal police of the education system, discovering and reporting problems and helping find sound solutions," He Xiuchao, director of the Ministry of Education's education supervision department, told a pressRead more

Students across the nation went to their schools as normal on the second school day except for students in North Sinai and Giza's Kerdasa due to unstable security conditions there. The education ministry said the study went normal in 47,136 schools across the nation. In a report, the ministry noted some minor incidents have marred the study at some schoolsRead more

China's antipornography office publicized a series of cases on Sunday, uncovered in an ongoing campaign against explicit content in children's publications. In one case, police in southwest China's Guizhou Province shut down an unregistered comics website which carried works that "showed sexual organs and promoted homosexuality, gore, violence and obscenity," the office said. Jointly initiated by five departments including theRead more

United Nations officials today said marking the International Day of Peace with calls for greater investment in quality education and to reverse trends which show aid for schools and teachers dipping for the first time in a decade. "On this International Day of Peace, let us pledge to teach our children the value of tolerance and mutual respect," Secretary-General BanRead more