Afghan authorities said they are investigating a suspected poison attack at a school in the northeastern province of Takhar. More than 70 girls and three female teachers at the Bibi Haji school have fallen ill complaining of nausea, headaches and dizziness, the BBC reported Wednesday. Police said preliminary evidence suggests that poisonous material was sprayed into classrooms at the school.Read more

Two Los Angeles men were charged Tuesday with killing two University of Southern California graduate students from China during a bungled carjacking in April. Javier Bolden and Bryan Barnes made a brief court appearance. They agreed to postpone their arraignment until June 25, the Los Angeles Times reported. Investigators said Bolden and Barnes were linked by shell casings found atRead more

American educational organisation Amideast, with support from the GE Foundation, has begun offering a new training programme for English teachers in six countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, and Tunisia. The programme is currently being piloted in Egypt, with additional pilots to be conducted in Palestine and Jordan this summer and subsequently in Iraq, Morocco, and Tunisia. Amideast developed theRead more

Teachers and students at all levels of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, chanting and erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system. Union officials said it was too early to estimate how many teachers had stayed away from work. AllRead more

The Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC) has started teaching labourers English in an effort to promote workers' rights and well-being. The classes, at Saadiyat Construction Village, began earlier this year. Students sit quietly in their seats, listening and taking notes as the teacher writes on a board at the front of the room. "I want to be able toRead more

JSS Mahavidyapeeth, one of India's largest privately held educational institution chains, is exploring the possibility of opening more institutions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, its president Jagadguru Sivarathri Deshikendra Mahaswamiji told Gulf News. JSS, which has around 350 institutions worldwide, presently runs three educational institutions, including two schools, in Dubai. Deshikendra, who inaugurated a new soccer field in the JSSRead more

In yet another incident of violence in schools, a grade five boy was allegedly beaten by eight pupils on the campus of Al Hesn Private School in Al Muhaisnah, Dubai. The nine-year-old Emirati boy, Yousuf Yaqoub Abdul Rahman, was allegedly assaulted by students from higher classes who are also Emiratis, when one of them mistook Yousuf as the one whoRead more

More than 100 volunteers joined a Dubai Cares’ ‘Volunteer Emirates’ initiative to help enrich the learning environment for students at the His Highness Shaikh Rashid Al Maktoum Pakistani School in Dubai. Through the initiative, Dubai Cares installed 630 chairs and desks, 21 whiteboards, 15 bookshelves and 10 air-conditioners. Volunteers also helped paint over 50 classrooms as they provided educational toysRead more

The ministerial committee for legislations gave approval this morning for the country’s draft law of compulsory education. Compulsory education is a system under which every individual would receive education until a certain age. At meeting held under the chairmanship of the Minister of Justice Dr. Hadef Jouan Al Dhahiri, the commitee gave a reading of the law after necessary amendmentsRead more

President Obama, in an address to the first graduating class at Joplin High School since last year's tornado in Missouri, urged students to "pay it forward." Obama reminded the class of 2012 about the support the city received nearly one year earlier when a powerful tornado ripped a 13-mile path through the area, killing 161 people. A Japanese man flewRead more