In Pakistan, nearly 32 percent of the total youth is illiterate, where 9.5 are unemployed and only 6 percent are equipped with technical skills.  Due to these statistics the 32 percent of uneducated youth with no vocational and life skills, make a lot of individuals who are vulnerable to unemployed or inactive with females forming the majority. Pakistan is currentlyRead more

Some 150 Grade 12 top achievers for the 2011-2012 academic year from across the country will each receive financial and scholarship grants from the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “The students will be granted Dh20,000 as incentive award, in addition to a number of scholarships,” said Mohammad Salem Al Dhaheri, executive director of School Operations atRead more

The contractual teachers of the Lebanese University (LU) demonstrated on Wednesday at 16:00 concurrently with the onset of the cabinet session, on the crossroad to Baabda Presidential Palace. The demonstrators voiced their demand for an approval on their request of becoming full time teachers, without any more delays or postponement.Read more

A Qatar Leadership Centre (QLC) delegation has concluded a 10-day study tour of the Chinese cities of Beijing, Ordos and Tianjin. The delegation, included more than 30 recent Qataris graduates, was led by QLC Strategy and Performance director Khaled el-Gohary. HEC Paris, one of the world’s most prestigious business schools, organised lectures, meetings and activities for the delegation. At lecturesRead more

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has ordered honouring of 150 grade 12 outstanding students nationwide. As per the directive a scholarship and AED20000 will be granted to each student. This was disclosed at a press conference held at Fairmont-Bab Al Bahr Hotel - Abu Dhabi by Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC). The press conference was attendedRead more

The total annual tuition fees collected by all 148 private schools in Dubai this academic year is close to Dh 3.52 billion, with the average tuition fee paid by a pupil being Dh17,172 per year. This comes as Dubai’s private school population, for the first time ever, has crossed 207,118 this academic year, double the number of pupils in privateRead 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

For school children in the UAE, home to more than 100 nationalities, learning foreign languages is not alien but the norm. Julie D’Souza’s children, now 12 and 16, who moved to the UAE five years back, have attended Indian curriculum schools all along. Like their peers, the D’Souza children learned three languages before the age of seven. “In India, studentsRead more

The UK government’s decision to introduce mandatory foreign language lessons to school children from age seven is being taken too late, believes Dubai-based education advisor, Micheline Habib. Children acquire foreign languages best in the first three to four years of their lives, she says. “The earlier children begin to learn a language, the easier it will be for them toRead more

Illegal nursery schools and kindergartens continue to thrive in Qatar despite the authorities keeping a close watch on all such facilities across the country, Gulf Times has found. Acting on a list compiled by “a group representing various licensed kindergartens and nurseries in Qatar” as part of an open letter to the Supreme Education Council’s Private Schools Office director DrRead more