The European University Association (EUA) has recognised the first 73 university diplomas issued by the university of Kosovo. Belgrade, committed to recognition too; the two countries came to an agreement in the past months, during negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina facilitated by the EU. In giving the news, the EU representative office in Belgrade quoted the EU dialogue facilitator, RobertRead more

An engineering degree to better equip Emiratis for management roles will be launched in the autumn. The course in industrial engineering will help graduates to move more easily up the career ladder in fields such as logistics and manufacturing. Dr Yousef Al Assaf, dean of engineering at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), said research with companies such as EmiratesRead more

Students who leaked class 12 biology question paper will get no marks for their third semester exams, announced the UAE Ministry of Education. The ministry said that it would take into consideration the student’s performance and grades all through the school year and will study all the cheating cases. The ministry said investigations are going on and that the punishmentRead more

The Federation of All-Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has threatened to close academic activities countrywide if the funds were not released by the Higher Education Commission till June 30. The decision was taken in the association’s general body meeting held in Islamabad to decide the future strategy against non-release of funds amounting to Rs 12 billion to the HECRead more

Children at ten rural area schools of Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Karachi,operated by Developments in Literacy, have a new companion in school. This Reading Companion takes the shape of a friendly animated character that comes to life in the computer lab and helps children with their English reading skills. Reading Companion is IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) global literacy initiative that was introducedRead more

A Pakistani student has won silver media in an international competition about environmental issues held at State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego. Students from forty countries presented 657 projects in the Genius Olympiad where the Shadab Rasool Buriro from Khairpur, Sindh stood second to win silver medal. Another Pakistani student Abdul Daim from Haripur, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, was awardedRead more

More than 40 primary school teachers from Qatar’s independent school system mastered ways to make science and math more exciting for their third, fourth and fifth grade classes. They were participants of the inaugural Qatar University ExxonMobil Teachers Academy, a five-day programme which concluded on Thursday. The teachers spent morning learning experiments to help them teach the concepts of buoyancy,Read more

The Dean of Faculty of Dentistry of Umm Al-Qura University, Dr. Mohammed bin Mustafa Biyari, visited yesterday the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Florida in Jonesville, Florida, during which he met with the Dean of the Faculty, Professor Teresa Dolan. During the meeting, they discussed academic cooperation in the field of dentistry and scientific researches between the twoRead more

Qatar Petroleum’s Dukhan Learning Centre (DLC) recently hosted five students of Year-11 from QP’s Dukhan English School (DES) for an intensive work-experience project that enabled them to gain hands-on knowledge of how a vocational and industrial training facility works. Under the project the students familiarised themselves with the operations of the learning centre. They interacted closely with the centre’s instructors,Read more

The UK government has decided to teach foreign languages at school to students from the age of seven. Planned national curriculum reforms also encourage science learning through study of nature. All children are to be taught a foreign language which could include Mandarin, Latin or Greek from the age of seven under reforms to the British national curriculum unveiled byRead more