Maersk Oil Qatar has taken part in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) ‘Well and reservoir management workshop’, which concluded in Doha yesterday. As platinum sponsor, Maersk Oil invited ten engineering students from Qatar University and Texas A&M University at Qatar to participate in the three-day workshop, attended by around 100 industry professionals. Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad al-Thani, deputy managingRead more

Lebanon's Education Minister Hassan Diab said both Syrian and Lebanese students are being treated equally, in a statement to "Arabstoday". Syrian students who fled to Lebanon face problems with academia, foreign language and change of curriculum, he admitted. Diab said: "What we have done last year will not change regarding their free education in public schools. However, we are waitingRead more

Children of immigrants and children who immigrated to the United States do better in academics and school engagement, researchers found. "Our findings challenge pessimistic views that having immigrant parents places children at a disadvantage at the point of transitioning to adulthood," study leader Lingxin Hao, professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement. "Children ofRead more

Kuwaiti Acting Minister of Finance and Education and Minister of Higher Education Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf said Tuesday his country is eager to cooperate with Algeria in the Education sector, expressing wishes by to achieve such a quality leap in the education field and overall from the rest of the Arab world, but particularly from Algeria. The minister made his remarksRead more

Kuwait's Minister of Finance and acting Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr. Naif Falah Al-Hajraf extolled here on Tuesday the distinguished relations between Kuwait and Algeria in the field of higher education and scientific research, describing them as "deep-rooted". Al-Hajraf said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the sidelines of his meeting with Algerian Minister ofRead more

  The new school year began on Tuesday with teachers at public and private elementary and junior high schools in Greece saying they would not be showing for work on Wednesday in protest against wage cuts contained in the government's new austerity package and the lack of teaching staff across the education system. Unions have also spoken out against theRead more

Malaysian Ambassador to Jordan Dato’ Abdul Malek Bin Abdul Aziz hailed the steadily growing ties between Jordan and Malaysia, especially in the education sector. Abdul Aziz told “Petra” that 3 thousands Malaysian students are pursuing their higher education at Jordanian universities, noting that more than 1330 students are heading to Jordan this year with an increase of 50% compared toRead more

Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of siding with striking unionized teachers in Chicago at the expense of students, a charge the White House dismissed. "President Obama has chosen his side in this fight, sending his vice president last year to assure the nation's largest teachers union that 'you should have no doubt about my affection for you and theRead more

Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years, leaving 400,000 children off school and creating a political minefield for President Barack Obama in his adopted hometown. The strike in the nation's third largest school district is particularly awkward for Obama because the union is fighting his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who left theRead more

Italy's top appeals court on Monday confirmed a 15-day prison sentence inflicted on a teacher for having made an 11-year old student write out "I am an idiot" one hundred times as a punishment. The Rome-based Court of Cassation ruled that school staff cannot respond to children's bullying attitudes with similar ones as this only goes to reinforce youngsters' errantRead more