The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Student Leaders Forum opened here on Tuesday to mainly discuss the possibility of establishing a youth association. Young leaders and members of student organizations from 15 APRU universities participated in the meeting at Russia's Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in Vladivostok. This year's meeting is mainly to discuss the establishment of APRU's youthRead more

Education Minister Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi has today endorse the Scholarship Programme for the School Year 2013-2014. He announced that the scholarships would be granted to students on the basis of standards of meritocracy , without any gender discrimination. The ministry sought to strike the balance between boys and girls taking Bahrain’s needs and the admission terms enforced byRead more

The first day of official Lebanese exams ended in an ambiance of calm Saturday, National News Agency (NNA) reported. After several weeks of clashes, insecurity and sporadic violence, in Tripoli, Sidon, and the border regions with Syria, which witness regular shelling, and after a year particularly distinguished by frequent union strikes, Brevet students successfully made it to their first dayRead more

The continued growth of social media in the Arab region has facilitated innovations by individuals, created new horizons for government entities and new social trends by Arab societies. Under the title 'Transforming Education in the Arab World: Breaking Barriers in the Age of Social Learning', the 5th edition of the Arab Social Media Report series was launched by the DubaiRead more

India and the United States will hold a summit on higher education next week aimed at fomenting two-way students' mobility from India to US and vice-versa, a statement from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (HRD) said Saturday here. It said the HRD minister M M Pallam Raju and visiting US Secretary of State John F. Kerry are toRead more

Greater efforts are needed to increase cross-Strait identity and mutual trust, scholars from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan said on Friday. Speaking at the closing ceremony of the "Beijing Talk" seminar on mainland-Taiwan relations, Yu Keli, head of the Institute of Taiwan Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), spoke of enhancing the cross-Strait identity, in order toRead more

More students from North Africa and the Middle East will benefit from the EU's new program for education training and youth, according to EU European Commissioner for Education and Culture Androulla Vassiliou. Speaking at Nicosia University in Cyprus on Thursday , she said the new program, due for launch in January 2014, would build on success of the existing twoRead more

A former school principal and government clerk who raped primary school girls in hotels in May were respectively sentenced to 13 and half and 11 and half years in jail on Thursday. The trials were held behind closed doors. The No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Hainan Province said it heard the cases of Chen Zaipeng, the former principal ofRead more

A Chinese astronaut orbiting more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) above the Earth's surface delivered a video class to children across the country on Thursday, state television showed in a live broadcast. Wearing a blue space suit, Wang Yaping, the second Chinese woman in space, demonstrated how a variety of objects -- from a bubble of water to a spinningRead more

Forced by Syria's war to sit her secondary school diploma exam in northern Lebanon, Riham Othman, 19, bursts into tears, fearing the Lebanese authorities will never recognise the test results. Worse still, she dreads her dream of becoming a journalist may also never come true. Her eyes fixed on the desk, Othman's anxiety is written all over her face. "IRead more