Private Greek primary school in Turkish Canakkale city's Gokceada region will be reopened on Monday after a half century. We gave great effort to reopen the school and Turkish Ministry of National Education has taken important steps, member of Foundations Assembly of the General Directorate for Foundations, Laki Vingas told AA in an exclusive interview. He said it was theirRead more

The Cabinet under Hazem el-Beblawy decided to exempt students of public schools of tuition and book fees this year. The Cabinet also decided to raise the number of accepted children in the kindergarten stage by 10% in both public and private schools.Read more

The Roads and Transport Authority has announced the launch of the School Outreach Programme at educational establishments across Dubai to coincide with the start of the new school year. Engineer Maitha bin Udai, CEO of the Traffic and Roads Agency at the Authority called on school bus drivers and parents to be cautious while driving in order to keep studentsRead more

With a cover teeming with cartoon pigs, a hit Chinese book reads, "Taxi driver said, 'There are many beauties in your school, but they are expensive.' ... The student answered, 'You get half off with a teacher's certificate.'" Boasting explicit phrases and branding ancient scholars as "rogues," the book "Those Who Don't Read It Upside-down Are Pigs" might not beRead more

Egypt and the World Food Program (WFP) will sign a cooperation deal within the coming weeks for funding the Egyptian government project for nourishing school students, Egyptian Ambassador in Rome Amr Helmi said in statements Thursday. He was speaking after a meeting with Deputy CEO of the World Food Program (WFP) Amir Abdallah.Read more

As the scholastic year 2013/2014 kicks off, Zakat House is distributing a total of 11,000 school bags with supplies to last a full year at a total KD 65,000, to be received by students covered by the House list of beneficiaries. The director of this project Walid Al-Hammadi said in press remarks Thursday that the supplies included with the bagRead more

Quality education will make people in impoverished regions more capable of finding jobs, and poverty will thereby be reduced, according to a circular published on Wednesday by the State Council, China's Cabinet. "Education will help residents in the impoverished regions cast off poverty, expand the mid-level income group, promote regional economic and social development and the construction of eco-civilization," saidRead more

The UK has relaxed its immigration rules giving greater flexibility to students and businesses that employ and sponsor international migrants, a move likely to benefit Indians. According to the new rules, visitors to the UK will be allowed a short period of study or training as part of their stay. Multinational firms will be able to bring their own auditorsRead more

In 2009, selected Indian children — with Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu chosen as representative states — took a test called PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and ranked 73 out of 74 nations, trailing just above Kyrgyzstan. The PISA is a worldwide assessment conducted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations ofRead more

Tamkeen signed an agreement with the Arab International Center for Entrepreneurship and Investment (AICEI) , which falls under the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) in Bahrain, to launch the "Entrepreneurship Workshops Programme", the first Tamkeen training programme catering solely to Bahraini entrepreneurs. The signing ceremony was attended by Tamkeen’s Chief Executive Mr. Mahmood Al-Kooheji and the Head of UNIDORead more