Education Minister Hassan Diab rejected over the weekend the Union Coordination Committee’s planned boycott next week of marking of exams for Grades 9 and 12. “I reject – under any condition or reason – that the process of marking exams and announcing exam results be suspended,” said Diab in a statement released on Saturday. Diab said that he understood theRead more

Thirteen Palestinian students who have held a sit-in in Hebron University for over three weeks warned Sunday they would scale up their protest if the Palestinian Authority does not release three fellow students. Eight of the protesters have been on hunger strike for 13 days. The group say the Palestinian Authority has detained fellow students based on their political affiliation.Read more

Dubai's Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) has established some welcome tough rules to govern what fees schools can charge in the emirate, commented a UAE daily. "Many schools in Dubai are run by companies for their shareholders' profit and such commercial enterprises should not be allowed to take advantage of parents desperate to give their children the best educationRead more

Education Minister Dr. Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi has approved the list of educational missions and scholarships for the academic year 2012-2013 submitted to him by the concerned sides. Dr. Al Nuaimi extended his sincere thanks and appreciation to the wise leadership for the constant support accorded to the Education Ministry in order to enable it to provide the bestRead more

Education Minister Dr. Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi has chaired a meeting of curricula specialists. The meeting focused on the changes made to educational curricula through the inception of the concepts of citizenship, human rights, tolerance, peace co-existence and respect of others’ points of view in school books and class activities. The Education Ministry’s professional development plan for the nextRead more

The Lebanese Association of Private Education Institutions has criticised the committee of minister’s  for going ahead with plans to adopt new salary scales and hierarchies for teaching professionals without taking into consideration "the opinions of educational institutions and parents’ committees and  disregarding the interests of 650,000 students, 60,000 teachers and hundreds of private educational institutions who find themselves unable toRead more

What are internationally educated children? Mark: I would use the following words to describe them: confident, privileged and adaptable, all evident in children we have taught in international schools. Kristen: On the other hand they could also be described as over-confident, which we have seen in children we have met since moving here to Dubai. So, what are the benefitsRead more

An UAE based online face to face tutoring service for high school students worldwide, called E-Aid (Eductional Aid), is making its way to completion. Rumaisa Mohani, a business and accounting teacher for 17 years and one of the four partners in this project, told Gulf News the story of how it started. “My sister, friends and I got together toRead more

Qatar Shell has launched the first 'Tajahaz' summer programme, which will run through July, with a number of top performing Qatari high school students. Tajahaz (be prepared in Arabic), is a summer programme to help highly competent young Qataris' transition to university as well as their future careers. The summer programme will run during the month of July, Qatar ShellRead more

Surveys suggest that U.S. students are not being challenged in school, especially in math and science, a report released Tuesday said. "Do Schools Challenge Our Students? What Student Surveys Tell Us About the State of Education in the United States" was based on student questionnaires from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The report was prepared by two researchers withRead more