Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has issued a resolution promoting 1300 Officers, noncommissioned officers and members of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs, Dubai (DRND). Major General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director-General of the General Directorate Of residency And Foreigners Affairs - Dubai expressedRead more

A U.S. student pleaded guilty to careless driving charges in New Zealand in a crash that killed three other U.S. students, the country's Justice Ministry said. The ministry said Stephen Houseman, 20, Massapequa, N.Y., pleaded guilty in Auckland District Court Tuesday and was barred from driving in New Zealand for six months, the Boston Globe reported. Houseman, a Boston UniversityRead more

Government schools in Dubai and the Northern Emirates will be understaffed by about 800 teachers at the start of the next academic year. The shortage will be most pronounced in mathematics, science and physical education, and the Ministry of Education warned that if it could not plug the gap schools could be asked to combine some classes, which would increaseRead more

The Supreme Education Council and Microsoft – Qatar have signed a partnership agreement for the “integration of technology in education”, in Doha yesterday. It was attended by directors of SEC institutes, offices and administrative units and senior figures from Microsoft. Under the agreement, Microsoft Corporation will provide all students and teachers of independent schools in Qatar, with an official andRead more

Primary inspection results for private schools in the emirate of Abu Dhabi will be revealed publicly for the first time at the end of the 2012-2013 academic year, a senior education official said in the capital on Sunday. It is a parent’s right to know how well a school is performing, said Dr Mugheer Al Khaili, director general at theRead more

Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) will offer a special intensive French language course this summer to spur an interest and engage students in the French culture. Commencing on July 1, the course will run for over four weeks. Visitors spending the summer in Abu Dhabi can also enrol themselves in these courses to learn French combined with cultural activities toRead more

The Los Angeles Unified School District is violating a state law by not using student performance in teacher evaluations, a judge ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge James Chalfant did not order the district to use standardized test scores or any other specific yardstick for measuring achievement, the Los Angeles Times reported. He scheduled a hearing Tuesday. The case was broughtRead more

Al-Mangaf High School has won the 20th contest, car mechanics and traffic regulations (2012), patronized by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Ahmad Al-Homoud Al-Sabah. The technical committee of the contest, organized by Kuwait Science Club in coordination with the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Education, along with support from Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement ofRead more

The Higher Education Institutions affiliating to the Government of Dubai will have their academic, or professional or applied programmes subjected to the Dubai Executive Council resolution No. 21 for year 2011, on the higher education, in accordance with the decree issued by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler ofRead more

Two US students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meagre supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs. Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to the city of Christchurch on Monday after meeting up with members of a search teamRead more