US fourth and eighth grade students continue to lag behind many of their peers in Eastern Asia and Europe in math, science and reading, found two reports released Tuesday. U.S. fourth-graders ranked 11th in math and 7th in science, while U.S. eighth-graders ranked 9th in math and 10th in science, according to the report on the Trends in International MathematicsRead more

Slovak teachers on Tuesday started a series of demonstrations to demand a higher-than-proposed increase in their salaries. Tuesday's public rallies in Zilina of central Slovakia and Presov of east Slovakia were attended by hundreds of teachers. The education trade union has demanded a pay rise of at least 10 percent. The teachers argued that compared with other members of theRead more

The sudden death of a 21-year-old Chinese college student on Monday during a basketball course raised people's attention to the health of students in China. The second-year student, whose surname is Tang, studied at Shanghai Shanda institute. After warming up for a basketball course at 9:30am, Tang suddenly fell down and fainted. He was rushed to hospital but died later.Read more

Education Minister Dr Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi opened today the first National Skills Competition, hosted by Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Institute of Technology, with the participation of 82 contestants from public and private sectors and an arbitration panel of 66 experts . He got updated about the participants' projects in welding, web design, graphic design technology, mobile robots, cars,Read more

The AMA International School came under attack. A group of vandals threw Molotov Cocktails at the private school, causing damage to its gate, the security office and reception building. The saboteurs also hurled stones, broke some windows, climbed up the fences and broke into the school. They robbed some CCTV cameras in transgression of the school's sanctity and the lawsRead more

Nineteen more graves have been found at a Florida reform school where one former inmate said "the devil was hiding behind every tree," scientists said Monday. A team from the University of South Florida in Tampa has been investigating the graveyard at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, NBC News reported. In an interim report, they saidRead more

Indian School Al Seeb recently held a function to commemorate the death anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand during which the school's two hockey teams were initiated at the school premises. Reading the message received from the Indian captain of the women's team admist loud cheers was the Principal Nagesh Kelkar. "I congratulate Indian School Al Seeb on commemoratingRead more

Teachers in Canada's Ontario province kicked off a series of rotating strikes Monday to protest government action limiting union rights The teachers picked the Avon Maitland school district near Goderich and the Ontario North East district near Timmins to begin with. They say the strikes will move to Ottawa Wednesday and the Greater Toronto Area Thursday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.Read more

Two University of Colorado at Boulder students were arrested for allegedly feeding marijuana-laced brownies to their unsuspecting classmates, police said. Thomas Ricardo Cunningham, 21, and Mary Elizabeth Essa, 19, were arrested Saturday. They were charged with second- degree assault and inducing consumption of controlled substances by fraudulent means for the incident, The Denver Post reported. The two allegedly baked marijuana-lacedRead more

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari Monday announced a 10-million-dollar donation for a global war chest to educate all girls by 2015 set up in the name of Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education. The "Malala Fund for Girls' Right to Education" aims at raising billions of dollars to ensure that all girls goRead more