Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said in Strasbourg on Thursday that one of the most important problems of Muslims was teaching and learning Islam, and told the students of Faculty of Islamic Theology in Strasbourg, "If you would correctly learn and live Islam, you would correctly teach it." Bozdag visited the Faculty of Islamic Theology of Turkish Islamic AssociationRead more

Oxford University researchers have measured the learning gap experienced by five-year old children who are stunted through malnourishment. They are tracking the long-term effects on their schooling and later prospects in the jobs market. The new analysis, which examines children in four countries across three continents, has been conducted by the research group Young Lives, based in Oxford’s Department ofRead more

Ministers council spokesman Alaa Al Hadidi has announced the Egyptian government will immediately employ a number of graduates, just one week after President Mohammed Morsi listened to the demands of student protesters in Cairo. Graduates with masters and doctoral qualifications could be offered state vacancies this year, Al Hadidi said. “President Morsi asked the government to take the necessary measuresRead more

Tunisian Minister of Education Salem Labiadh on Tuesday highly commended cooperation with Kuwait in the educational field. Speaking to KUNA, the Tunisian minister hailed Tunisian-Kuwaiti education cooperation as "serious and excellent," saying he will visit Kuwait when time serves to discuss how to further promote and develop bilateral educational ties. Kuwait always contracts Tunisian teachers to work in its schoolsRead more

A Chinese province is likely to abolish mandatory HIV tests for teachers, the first region on the mainland to do so, state media said Tuesday. HIV carriers are excluded from civil service jobs including teaching and policing in many provinces across China, leading to accusations of discrimination from rights groups. But the state-run China Daily said that HIV tests hadRead more

Muhammad V University in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, the country's oldest university, will confer an honorary degree to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his official visit to the country in June. The award, which will be presented to Erdogan in a ceremony scheduled on June 4, will be given "to draw attention to the significance of TurkeyRead more

South Korean officials on Monday launched a probe into cram schools after a cheating scandal that led to the nationwide cancellation of US college entrance exams earlier this month. The education office in the capital Seoul started the special investigation into a number of private academies suspected of illegally obtaining questions for the SAT test and offering them to pupils,Read more

Two Japanese scholars said Saturday that they have been warned by their government in Tokyo for visiting South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo, to which Japan has also laid claims. Norio Kuboi, a former professor at Momoyama Gakuin University, Yoshihiro Kuroda, a former lecturer at the Kobe Shoin Women's University in Osaka, and another Japanese made the visit to DokdoRead more

Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Rachid Harraoubia said Thursday in Algiers that many Algerian researchers and teachers who left the country during the “difficult” years to settle abroad “are back to the country.”Read more

The Saudi Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Anqari opened in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to the United States of America Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, in Washington, DC, last night the Exhibition of Career Day, organized by the Saudi Cultural Attaché Office in Washington to mark the graduation of the sixth batch of the Custodian of theRead more