Eritrean Minister of Education Semere Russom met here Thursday with HE Qatari Ambassador to Eritrea Mohamed bin Issa Al Mannai. During the meeting, they reviewed relations of cooperation between the two countries and ways of developing them in all areas.Read more

The quality of private and public schools across the emirate will undergo close scrutiny and will be rated following an inspection that would assess their efficiency over a set of standards. At the launch of the Irtiqaa (escalating performance) programme on Tuesday, Salem Al Sayari, Executive Director, Support Services Sector of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec), underscored the needRead more

Police and protesters fought in the streets of Barcelona on Wednesday as more than 30,000 people joined students in demonstrations against cuts in education spending. Fires were lit in the streets, cars burned and bank windows smashed with missiles as the protests turned violent. At least one bank was broken into and police fired rubber bullets as roads in theRead more

Al Ain Zoo will be offering children exciting and stimulating experiences in its fun-packed Zoo Safaris this spring. Organised by the Education Centre, the Zoo Safaris give children the opportunity to explore and learn about wildlife and nature in the beautiful setting of Al Ain Zoo. The first Spring Safari will take place from March 25th to 29th, while theRead more

Three people were locked up today over the brutal killing of a TV executive who was beaten and left to die in a burning car. Gagandip Singh, 21, was lured to medical student Harvinder Shoker's university bedroom in Brighton after she said she wanted to talk to him but it turned out to be a honey trap. He was knockedRead more

Plans for an education centre in Ras Al Khaimah are on hold as an expert council to licence, oversee and regulate new institutions has not yet been formed. The council was announced last summer but nothing has since been done. Dozens of educational institutions have applied to open in the RAK Free Zone, says its chief executive Oussama El Omari.Read more

Parents in the capital will be able to choose schools for their children based on independently measured research results rather than word of mouth. Inspectors will visit and grade every school in the capital, both state and private, from the start of the academic year in September, and the results of their evaluations will be made public. "There is aRead more

With a little help from Led Zeppelin, the widow of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun has donated more than 26 million pounds ($41 million) to Oxford University to fund humanities scholarships for graduate students. On Wednesday the university announced the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Program, which will initially fund 15 annual international scholarships for the study of subjectsRead more

Ministers should consider making pupils study the arts up to the age of 16 amid concerns that cultural education in England is still "patchy", a government-commissioned report has said. It warns that there is concern about how much the coalition government values cultural education in schools, adding that this has been partly caused by the introduction of the English BaccalaureateRead more

The Ohio 17-year-old accused of America's latest school shooting rampage chose his victims at random, his prosecutor said Tuesday, as details of the teen's troubled home life emerged. TJ Lane spoke only to confirm his birthdate and answer "Yes I do" to basic questions when he appeared in a juvenile court for a preliminary hearing, hours after a third ChardonRead more