Mariam Khalique, a teacher of Malala Yousufzai, has said that more needs to be done to ensure all girls get a chance to go to school. In her speech at the launch of a UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report data revealing the importance of education at a school in New York on Thursday, Ms Khalique spoke about the power ofRead more

Kuwaiti students in Saudi Arabia should update their personal data, said head of the culture office at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Riyadh Dr. Mesfer Mahdi Msfer here Friday. The Kuwaiti diplomat said that the data renewal will better serve Kuwaiti students seeking their education in Saudi Arabia, adding that the step would further develop the system in which the studentsRead more

Undersecretary of the Education Ministry in Gharbiya governorate Fatma Khedr said that the role of the police to serve and protect the homeland would be taught to children during at least one class on the first week of school. She has already given instructions to this effect to all school administrations, she said. This step comes in light of theRead more

Under the patronage of Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf, the Scientific Center, an affiliate of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (KFAS), hosted on Wednesday a ceremony to honor the volunteers who took part in the Center's summer program - 2013. The voluntary program is being held for the 13th year, hosting 66 thisRead more

A failure to teach Chinese as a second language in Hong Kong’s public schools is holding back pupils who don’t speak it at home For the 15,000 pupils in Hong Kong’s public schools who don’t speak Chinese, not knowing the local language doesn’t just hold back their education. Forced into one of a handful of schools with scarce resources andRead more

Effective professional development for teachers and school leaders is key to innovation in education, experts concluded at an education conference held in the capital on Tuesday. “If we want to have innovative curricula, we need a curricula/pedagogy for our teachers and leaders too,” Philippa Cordingley, chief executive of the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education, UK,Read more

Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder and Chairperson of Education Above All Foundation, has visited the ‘Prefeitura de Parauapebas’ school in the indigenous Xikrin community in the village of Djudjeko, in Brazil’s northern Para region. The visit aims to examine the education systems in these isolated and indigenous communities and learn of the challenges these communities face. The Educate A ChildRead more

Chinese Embassy in South Africa Tuesday held an open-day event to the public in Pretoria, featuring the theme "Colorful Dream, Common Aspiration." About 200 students from several schools visited the embassy, experienced original Chinese culture, and learned the "Chinese Dream" from a self-included view. "I am very pleased to learn Chinese. Chinese culture attracted me deeply," Precious Khalo, eighth-grade studentRead more

A panel at the Third Saudi-U.S Business Opportunities Forum in Los Angeles, California, discussed Tuesday Saudi K-12 Education Reform. The panel, entitled “The Saudi K-12 Education Reform: Building the Foundation for a Knowledge-Based Economy,” was moderated by Bassma Adnan AlSeyofi, head of the Language Training Institutes Division of the Private & International Education Administration, which is a subdivision of theRead more

Minister of Education Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf said Tuesday the ministry was open to any proposal that would address traffic congestions or any other problem but after they were fully analyzed and studied. Speaking to reporters while visiting schools in Mubarak Al-Kabeer educational area to mark beginning of new year, Al-Hajraf, also Minister of Higher Education, said the ministry used busesRead more