As part of continuous efforts to develop the skills sets of Bahraini youth in order to position them as the employees of choice, Tamkeen renewed its partnership with the National Society for the Support of Education and Training on the Career Expo. The National Society organises a career expo every year in cooperation with a number of public and privateRead more

    Students of Pakistani schools in Qatar have achieved high marks in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Part-II Examination 2012.       The results of the examination held in May/June were recently released by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad.     Pakistan Education Centre Doha scored a pass percentage of 93. Of aRead more

Chilean authorities on Monday arrested some 20 student protesters occupying schools to demand education reform, local media said. The arrests were made in a police operation to evict protesters from the two schools in Santiago. Five other schools had also been briefly occupied. Last week, students continued their protests against what they dubbed the government's "indifference" to their demands ofRead more

A circular was issued in China on Monday to ask local governments to better implement the regulation on school bus safety management by mapping out a transitional period. Issued by the Ministry of Education and another 19 departments responsible for school bus safety, the circular urged local governments to establish a school bus safety management system, set a reasonable transitionalRead more

With the announcement of the establishment of the Supreme Education Council (SEC) by Emiri decree No. 37, November 2002, in its capacity as the higher authority which directs and develops the nation’s education policy and strategy and supervises its implementation. In 2004, under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the government launched the education development initiativeRead more

The beginnings of interest in education among the Qatari society date back to the late 19th century, as schools were spread in all regions of Qatar to preach religion, science and culture. The Kuttab was the first traditional non official educational institution undertaking the task of educating young people matters related to life and religion until education became a socialRead more

A Kuwaiti researcher has invented a system to control presence and absence of students in schools and universities and has registered his new invention with the Intellectual Property Office in Britain. Named (system and method for monitoring and motivating students to attend), Associate Professor of education and director of research and development in the Gulf University for Science and TechnologyRead more

In 2011, nearly 30 percent of U.S. high-school males and 18 percent of high-school females used some form of tobacco, federal health officials said. The report, published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, also said tobacco use among U.S. middle school and high-school students showed a slow decline from 2000 to 2011. Dr.Read more

The Mauritanian Student Union has blamed their government for not evacuating students from Syria, despite the fact that most Arab countries have already done so. The union is calling President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to take action in order to repatriate Mauritanian students who are stuck in Syria. In a statement to Arabstoday, the Student Union said that “the governmentRead more

Tatweer Education Holding Company, tasked with the implementation of the King Abdullah Public Education Development Project, intends to prepare 1,000 schools in different districts to provide evening classes to students and their families. “These evening classes, which will be held for five hours daily, will also accommodate people who are living in the surrounding areas of the schools and whoRead more