China will beef up its support for secondary vocational education by offering more students free schooling and improving the grant aid system, authorities vowed on Wednesday. Urban students majoring in agriculture-related subjects or having financial difficulties and all rural students will be exempt from tuition fees at secondary vocational schools starting from the fall semester of 2012, according to aRead more

Bolivia Tuesday announced the winners of a Chinese scholarship program which trains Bolivian experts for operating the Tupac Katari satellite, slated for launching at the end of 2013. The 64 experts, including six women, were screened carefully to ensure eligibility for the scholarship, Bolivian Space Agency (BSA) Director Ivan Zambrana said. "The winners have been chosen through a transparent andRead more

Many classrooms and government offices will be empty in Lebanon Wednesday as part of the latest installment in the long-running saga of adjusting the salaries of teachers and civil servants. Tens of thousands of people will be impacted by the strike, and a demonstration that is scheduled to wind through Beirut. They will undoubtedly wonder why all of the commotionRead more

Intensive learning of a new language can make certain areas of the brain increase in size, Swedish researchers say. Scientists studied young recruits at the Swedish Armed Forces Interpreter Academy who learned a new language at a very fast pace, going from having no knowledge of a language such as Arabic, Russian or Dari to speaking it fluently in theRead more

An elementary school in the U.S. state of Oklahoma was briefly locke down Monday after a teacher found a loaded gun in his chair, local media reported. Police in the Oklahoma city of Moore said the teacher found the handgun in his chair after he arrived at Plaza Towers Elementary School for work Monday morning, according to local TV channelRead more

The Education Directorate in Riyadh yesterday banned private schools from advertising for themselves without the prior approval of the directorate. “Private, international or community schools should not advertise in local or foreign newspapers or undertake other promotional activities such as hanging ads on school walls or public places. The school authorities should not allow any commercial offers or discount salesRead more

Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Asir region, patronized here yesterday evening a ceremony for inaugurating and laying the foundation stones for a number of school building projects worth SR 1.8 billion in Asir region. In a press statement, the Prince said that these projects are among the largest ones in all the regions of the Kingdom ofRead more

Al-Mabarrah Al-Khalifiya hosted the first monthly meeting for the academic year 2012-2013 with students who received scholarships to study at the University of Bahrain, Bahrain Polytechnic and the Arabian Gulf University. The association has so far provided scholarships for a batch of 53 students to enroll at public and private universities in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Al-Mabarrah Al-Khalifiya secretary-general ShaikhaRead more

A German high school has decided to do away with homework to help pupils unwind, school officials said. The homework ban at Elsa-Brandstrom high school in North Rhine-Westphalia came after Germany's high school system cut a year, making school days longer, The Local.de reported. Head teacher at Elsa-Brandstrom, Brigitte Fontein, told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper Friday that generally "noRead more

A former student says in a lawsuit Wesleyan University in Connecticut allowed a dangerous fraternity to stay open and mistreated her after she was raped. The alleged victim, identified in court papers as Jane Doe, said she became a target of angry protests after Wesleyan officials recommended action against the Mu Epsilon chapter of Beta Theta Pi, the Hartford CourantRead more