U.S. President Barack Obama hit education themes for a second straight day in campaign appearances Wednesday in Las Vegas, pushing for increased funding. Obama addressed a crowd at Canyon Springs High School to address elementary and secondary education a day after focusing on funding for higher education. "We all understand there is nothing more important to our country's future thanRead more

Japanese student was raped and killed soon after her arrival at the Bucharest airport for a temporary teaching job in Romania, investigators say. The body of Yurika Masuno, 20, of Tokyo was found last week in a suburb of the Romanian capital, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Vlad Nicolae, 26, was arrested Saturday and charged with killing her. Investigators say NicolaeRead more

The Ministry of Education is making intense preparations to award contracts worth billions of riyals to construct 871 new school buildings in various parts of the Kingdom, a ministry official said yesterday. This is in addition to 2,340 school projects under construction at a total cost of SR 21 billion, said Fahd Al-Hammad, supervisor of the agency for school buildings.Read more

The Sunday Express newspaper yesterday published an apology and retracted its statement that the King Fahad Academy in London has been infiltrated by fanatics and was teaching an extreme version of Islam. (Please see the report on the paper’s website http://www.sundayexpress.co.uk/posts/view/340442/The-King-Fahad-Academy Following the allegations made in June 2011, Saudi lawyer and member of the academy’s Board of Trustees, Dr. SaudRead more

Dressed in caps and gowns, the college students packing a graduation ceremony in suburban Washington, D.C., acted like excited graduates anywhere in the United States. Except, perhaps, when the men broke into tribal line dances. Or when the women, wearing headscarves, burst forth with zagareet, soaring trills of their tongues, in celebration. The more than 300 graduates gathered at aRead more

More than 8,600 students have benefited from technical, professional or managerial trainings in national institutes of hotel training and tourism since independence.Read more

Italian parents are expected to spend 3.2% more this September compared to the previous year to buy schooling material for their children, according to a report released on Friday by a consumer association that is monitoring the prices of products such as school books, bags and pencil cases. The average expenditure per student will be about 995 euros, according toRead more

China will launch its first international Arctic cooperation and research institute in Shanghai, sources attending a Sino-Iceland workshop told reporters here. The workshop on Arctic studies was held Friday as part of the first formal visit to an Arctic country by China's fifth Arctic expedition team, aboard the icebreaker Xuelong, or "Snow Dragon". The new Sino-Northern Europe cooperation and researchRead more

California State University plans to freeze admissions for in-state students and accept more out-of-state and foreign students have sparked controversy. University officials are pushing the plan as a way to raise additional revenue for the cash-strapped system, the Los Angeles Times reported. Cal State will limit admission of new students in spring 2013 to a few hundred transfer students fromRead more

Under directives of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, all expatriate students residing in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi were exempted from paying tuition fee arrears in public schools for the past three years from the date of issuance of the decision. This gesture represents the President’s keenness toRead more