Missing British teenager Megan Stammers was discovered in the southwest city of Bordeaux on Friday, more than a week after eloping with her 30-year-old maths teacher, Jeremy Forrest, who was detained by police. The couple disappeared from Sussex last Thursday, when they took a ferry from Dover to Calais and failed to return. British authorities were put on alert onRead more

Schools and health centres built by British troops in Afghanistan could be closed because the country's government cannot afford to run them, it was revealed here Friday. A report written this year said too many centres had been built as the UK worked to stabilise Afghanistan and rebuild the shattered components of civil society. However, the Guardian newspaper said todayRead more

John Silber, who took charge of a failing Boston University and turned it into a major institution, died Thursday in Brookline, Mass., his family said. Silber's daughter, Ruth Silber-Belmonte, told The New York Times he suffered from kidney disease and died at his home. He was 86. Silber spent 25 years as president of B.U. and seven more as chancellorRead more

Israel's supreme court has upheld a ban on Palestinian students from the Gaza Strip studying in the West Bank. Israeli and Palestinian rights groups petitioned the court to allow five students from Gaza to travel to the West Bank for a master's program in gender studies. They argue the two separate Palestinian territories should be treated as a single entity.Read more

As part of the Education Ministry's efforts to avail of international expertise in education, higher education and training, Education Minister Dr. Majid Al Nuaimi met senior officials from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) at its headquarters in Paris, led by Executive Board Chairperson Alissandra Cummins, Deputy Director General for Education Qian Tang and Educational Planning CollegeRead more

A bomb that went off on Thursday morning has left at least two students injured in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat, according to local media reports. The explosion took place at the entrance of the Rom Klao school in Narathiwat's Yee Ngor district. Police investigation is underway. According to Deep South Watch, an agency that monitors the conflict inRead more

A student exchange program, being sued by a German student, was aware a host parent had a criminal record, lawyers said in a Portland, Ore., court. Both sides gave opening statements Tuesday in Multnomah County, Ore., Court in a civil case which seeks $2 million from host parent Craig Ley of Beaverton, Ore., and $4 million from Pacific International Exchange.Read more

In Tal Rifat on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo, children have no school to go to. Their building, twice hit by air strikes in recent weeks, lies in ruins. Students in nearby Azaz are no better off; there is a military base where their school used to be. Outside the country’s borders, in the overcrowded camps inRead more

The head of the Education and Culture parliamentary committee, Sidon MP Bahia Hariri, held a meeting Wednesday with private school principals in Majdalyoun to follow up on plans to accommodate Syrian refugee students for the coming school year. Many school-aged Syrians who fled have fled the ongoing conflict in Syria are now residing in the city of Sidon and itsRead more

Over 17 million students from 2,000 universities and 22,000 high schools across the country attend military training each year, according to a recently concluded national conference on the military training of university students. The meeting was held in Chengdu, provincial capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Sept. 25-26. At the conference, participants discussed ways to improve the military trainingRead more