A Chicago judge says school officials will have to wait until at least Wednesday before he'll consider a temporary restraining order against striking teachers. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Peter Flynn rejected a request by Chicago Public Schools to hold a hearing Monday that could have forced the striking teachers back to work, the Chicago Tribune reported. Roderick Drew, aRead more

The number of students from multicultural families in South Korea rose more than 20 percent on-year in 2012 to take up 0.7 percent of the country's total school children, data showed Monday. According to the data compiled by the education ministry, the number of multicultural students who attend primary or secondary schools in South Korea reached 46,954 in 2012. ItRead more

Two out of 10 South Korean secondary school students have an experience of drinking alcohol, with 10 percent having also smoked tobacco, a survey showed Monday.    In the education ministry's poll of 75,643 elementary and high school students nationwide, 20.6 percent said they have drunk more than one glass of alcohol over the past month. Nearly half of theRead more

Over 5 million students and more than 385,000 teachers and administrative employees headed to schools Sunday on the first day of the 2012-2013 study season.  Read more

The Algerian athletes who took part in the 19th Arab School Games in Kuwait (5-15 September) are the youngest compared to athletes of other participating countries, said Sunday here Maamar Omerani, Central Director at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in charge of school sports.  Read more

More than two thirds of Britons want to see a limit imposed on the number of foreign students coming to the country, a survey found Monday. Study is the most common reason for people coming to the UK for more than a year and seven in 10 people would like to see a cap imposed, the poll of almost 3,000Read more

Khaled Al-Anqari, minister of Higher Education, launched the seventh Saudi Library and Information Conference at the King Saud University in Riyadh on Saturday. The three-day conference which carries the theme “informatics and knowledge for change and the challenges faced by a knowledge-based society,” is organized by the Saudi Library and Information Society under the aegis of its honorary president, ViceRead more

The union representing Chicago's public school teachers extended a strike, forcing tens of thousands of children to stay out of class for a second week. A majority of some 800 union leaders voted to reconvene on Tuesday rather than end the strike in the nation's third-largest school system, so that members could have more time to consider a contract dealRead more

Chicago teachers were looking Sunday at a new contract that could end their weeklong strike, union officials said. The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates was set to meet Sunday to look at the city's offer and decide whether to end the strike and allow 350,000 students back into the classroom, the Chicago Tribune reported. Union officials said they hopedRead more

Hundreds of Muslim students in Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday staged demonstrations to protest the controversial anti-Islam movie. In Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, students marched through the streets, chanting anti-US and anti-Israel slogans and waving placards and banners to denounce the film. "We are protesting the sacrilege shown by the filmmaker in portrayal of our beloved prophet," saidRead more