President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Sunday stressed the importance of teachers' role in educating generations. "Education is the base of the reviviscence, progress and prosperity of any nation," Hadi said in his speech delivered on his behalf by Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi in the annual celebration organized by the education ministry to mark the Teacher Day. The PresidentRead more

Saudi authorities refrain from allowing girls to have sports lessons in government-run schools. Saudi Arabia still prohibits sports lessons in government-run girls' schools, and female sports clubs are banned, while a Saturday report by the kingdom's official press agency said Riyadh has recently voiced consent to the start of sports lessons in private schools. The Saudi press agency said theRead more

Osama Bin Zaid Boys Primary School was assaulted by vandals who burned tires at the school’s fence. The fire was put out, but caused some damage to the school fence raising the number of attacks on schools during the past period to 183. Read more

More than 30 million students in rural China are now benefiting from a nutritional lunch program launched by the government, according to Vice Education Minister Lu Xin on Friday. At a video conference on the program, which is aimed at rural compulsory students, Lu said the scheme covers more than one third of all the counties in China. She addedRead more

The China-Mongolia Friendship School has become a social bridge between China and Mongolia, a Chinese educator said here Friday. The school has trained students generation after generation for 50 years and has laid a solid foundation for their lives, said Principal Jiang Xianmei. Jiang, speaking at the graduation ceremony for 11th-grade students, also said that the students were an honorRead more

Millions of children, many of them street children, are leaving school even without learning basic literacy and numeracy skills. Salma lives in a slum next to a rubbish dump on the in the outskirts of New Delhi "The teachers say that they wont give admission to Bengalis because they're so dirty and when more people come they make the dirtyRead more

A German sex education book was dropped by its publisher after parents complained that its graphic illustrations were too racy for their kids. The cartoons in the book, "Where do you come from?" show two characters, Lisa and Lars, putting a condom on having sex and eventually giving birth, the New York Daily reported. The book aimed at educating childrenRead more

Chinese state media say two girls have died after eating poisoned yoghurt placed outside their kindergarten at the direction of the head of a rival school. According to the Associated Press, Xinhua News Agency says police believe the poisoning was motivated by competition for students between the schools. The agency claims that the woman confessed that she injected the yoghurtRead more

Belvedere Academy has opened up a new school in Abu Dhabi. The institution  based in the English city of Liverpool, will teach the English syllabus to a mix of students both Abu Dhabi nationals and British ex-pats at the new facility. According to the Liverpool Echo, Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson officially cut the ribbon alongside Middle Eastern royalty, andRead more

Kuwaiti officials have finalised contracts with 405 Egyptian teachers from various specialties and educational stages for the school year 2013/2014, head of the overseas education committee Mohammad al-Kandari said committee. According to Kuwait Times, 1,656 male and female teachers have been interviewed by the committee and the contracting procedures were finalised with 405 teachers in Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Physics, Biology,Read more