Maaden Aluminium, the Maaden Alcoa joint venture, yesterday announced it signed an agreement with Buraydah Technical College to design and implement a comprehensive English language course for high school students from communities near its bauxite mine at Al-Baitha in Qassim region. Abdulaziz Al-Harbi, president of Maaden Aluminium, and Mansour Al-Rossini, dean of Buraydah Technical College, signed the deal. The four-monthRead more

United Development Company (UDC) has sponsored a Consultancy Project by Qatar Foundation students aiming to empower young minds in the fields of business and innovation. Participating students included VCU Qatar design majors and engineering majors from Texas A&M University in Qatar. Each consultancy group was tasked to create a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaign for The Pearl-Qatar following a thoroughRead more

More girls than boys are likely to experience math anxiety that may hurt their classroom performance in the subject, British researchers say. High math anxiety was a stronger predictor of poor test performance for girls than for boys, researchers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities said -- and could keep girls from persisting with their math education and pursuing careers thatRead more

Members of West Bengal's intelligentsia Monday condemned the shameful incident in a school in Viswa Bharati, founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, where a class 5 girl student was allegedly made to drink her own urine for bedwetting. Leading writers and actors condemned the incident and demanded exemplary punishment for the guilty. "It is a shame for all of us.Read more

The Delhi government plans to appoint around 1,000 Urdu teachers , an official said Monday. "The government has sent a proposal for appointing around 1,000 Urdu teachers to directorate of education ," said the official. Besides, the government will recruit 100 Urdu language teachers and the process has already begun, the official said. "This was decided in a meeting whereRead more

A global chain of schools providing education with Indian values, especially meant for the diaspora, has received funding from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) to set up more institutions in India and Southeast Asian countries. The IFC will provide Singaporean $25 mn ($19.4 mn) to the Global Indian International School(GIIS), run by the Global Schools Foundation (GSF) thatRead more

Nearly 140 Grade 12 public school pupils enrolled under the Ministry of Education (MoE) Curriculum were on Monday honoured for scoring 95 per cent and higher. The ceremony in the capital saw Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Presidential Affairs, recognise high-achieving pupils. The results for Grade 12 MoE exams wereRead more

The Technical and Vocational Training Council in Makkah organized a drawing competition for young Saudis with the aim of developing patriotism and love for their homeland at its club for hobbies and learning on Saturday. The competition carried the theme, “My precious homeland.” Ahmed bin Jallah, vice president of the council, said: “We are targeting thousands of secondary school studentsRead more

A delegation of excelling Kuwaiti students visiting the city of Istanbul lauded here Sunday the role of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) in projects throughout Turkey. On the sideline of KFAED's (be outstanding) program, the students told KUNA on separate occasions that their visit to the country was an eye-opener in regards to the fund's involvement inRead more

Private school tuition is likely to rise as the government moves toward approving a salary hike for the country’s teachers, a move that is being opposed by private schools and greeted with cautious optimism by teachers. Representatives of the main blocs in the Cabinet last week promised teachers that it would pass the new salary scale this week after theRead more