In an incident which appears be a perfect plot for any reality-based fiction work, an American college dropout after being brutally attacked by a group of street robbers has turned a mathematics genius. It happened after 41-year-old Jason Padgett's brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. He was left concussed after being ambushed outside a karaoke club andRead more

A Boston College sophomore was found dead in his dormitory room Saturday afternoon, a school administrator said. Patrick Rombalski, vice president for student affairs, said in a letter posted on the Catholic college's Web site that police did not suspect foul play in the death of Michael Gannon of Lake Forest, Ill. The cause of death had not been determined,Read more

Suspected Taliban militants have destroyed a state-run girls primary school in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Local officials told (Press TV) that the assailants carried out the attack in the Mando Khail district of Landi Kotal town, located 192 kilometers west of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, in the early hours of Saturday by detonating explosives. There were noRead more

Glossy and smart in her new pink livery, Malak (Angel) has found some new and very supportive friends at the Jeddah Knowledge School (JKS). The school’s female Baccalaureate students chose Open Skies, a local organization that runs therapeutic horse-riding for disabled children, as a target for their social outreach this year. Through holding a school fair to raise money fromRead more

A lack of role models remains an obstacle in enticing young Emiratis into research and development, experts warned yesterday. "They want to make money the fast and easy way and research and development isn't that," said Dr Sehamuddin Galadari, the vice provost for research at United Arab Emirates University. He is one of around 200 Emirati academics at the university,Read more

Emirati engineering students gained practical experience at a different level last week while testing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) they built on their own during a nationwide Higher Colleges of Technology competition. Male and female students divided into nine teams from across 17 campuses applied their mathematical and scientific knowledge to build and fly their creations. "This is an engineering designRead more

Figures show that the poorest 25 per cent of pupils perform worse than those in countries such as Australia, France, Spain and the United States. A major study shows that Britain was ranked 28th out of 34 nations based on the proportion of deprived children who exceed expectations in exams. Just a quarter of poor pupils succeed “against the odds”Read more

All-girl schools could be pushed to the margins as pupils increasingly reject the “reserved” surroundings of single-sex education in favour of mixed classrooms, according to the editor of The Good Schools Guide. Lord Lucas estimated that fee-paying girls’ schools were in danger of losing a quarter of their British pupils over the next 20 years as part of a “gradualRead more

The Palestinian Authority’s ministry of education has concluded a six-month study aimed at amending and developing the high school “Tawjihi” exam system in Palestine. Basri Salih, who headed a commission assigned to prepare the study, told Ma’an a new methodology would simplify the exam system. According to the new system, tenth and eleventh graders will be tested in 12 subjectsRead more

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera pledged wide-ranging education reforms to be funded by new taxes but angry student protesters marched through the capital and other cities in the country to demand greater access to cheaper places in universities and colleges. Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Santiago. Crowd size estimates ranged from 25,000-50,000. Protests also took place in ValparaisoRead more