Wish your new student would develop a love for math? Play this fun number competition to help! Players toss pompoms into an empty ice tray with numbers in each compartment, then identify the numbers their pompoms landed on. It's a fun way for your child to learn numbers, how to count, and perhaps even get a head start on addition!Read more

Four Indonesian universities will participate in the international education conference to be held on April 17-20 at the Riyadh International Exhibition Center under the auspices of the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education, according to an embassy spokesman. “We hope that the four Indonesian universities’ participation in the international education conference will further improve the bilateral ties binding Saudi Arabia andRead more

A California high school teacher lost his legal battle over displaying banners in his classroom that referred to God. The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Bradley Johnson, a calculus teacher at Westview High School in Rancho Penasquitos who had been fighting with the school district to keep his banners in place, The San Diego Union TribuneRead more

A carjacking in Los Angeles early Wednesday left two people believed to be Chinese graduate students dead, police said. The victims, a man and woman, were seated in a BMW parked in the city's West Adams district when they were shot by an armed suspect who fled the scene in another car. The two were identified as being from ChinaRead more

Public sector workers in Uzbekistan received part of their wages in Serbian chickens and might be getting Ukrainian calves soon, Radio Liberty said on Wednesday. Although the authorities said it was a voluntary action, one of the teachers in the Bukhara region in central Uzbekistan, Odil, said the chickens had been forced on them. “We were forced to take tenRead more

Schools increasing their fees this year may do so again next year provided they have the approval of the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), officials have clarified. The new School Fees Framework is a long-term structure which will govern the size of fee hikes schools can ask of the KHDA. Schools may seek to increase their fees annually ifRead more

A 13-year-old Washington state boy who steered his school bus to safety Monday after the driver passed out, said he just didn't want to die. Jeremy Wuitschick, a seventh-grader at Surprise Lake Middle School in Milton, jumped into action when the 43-year-old driver apparently had a medical emergency and passed out. He grabbed the steering wheel and guided the bus,Read more

The Pakistani government plans to use education, sports and development to counter extremism and terrorism, the country's ambassador to the UAE Jameel Ahmad Khan said. "Our students are our future leaders and they will have to lead from the front to wipe out the scar of extremism and terrorism from the face of their country and project its soft imageRead more

Dubai Parents and schools managements have taken opposing stands a day after the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) announced a new school fee framework, allowing three to six per cent rises in fees this year. While understandably, most parents are furious over the increase, school managements are divided over the issue. "The fee hike announcement is really heartbreaking", Shezneen,Read more

Top-ranked private schools will be allowed to increase their fees by 6 per cent, the emirate’s education authority announced yesterday. The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) said its new fee structure would be based on school inspection grades and an “educational cost index” calculated by the Dubai Statistics Centre. That cost index, not unlike a calculated rate of inflationRead more