Two teenagers have lost much of their legal battle against the raising of tuition fees in England. Callum Hurley, from Peterborough, and Katy Moore, from London, claimed the decision to allow fees to rise breached human rights and equality laws. The 17-year-olds had argued that higher fees would discriminate against poor and ethnic minority students. High Court judges sitting inRead more

Armed robbers have seized dozens of items on display at the museum in Ancient Olympia on Friday morning, Greek authorities say. The robbers tied up an employee during the theft. Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos has submitted his resignation following the robbery, AP said. Museum authorities have yet to make an account of the items taken from smashed display cases. TheRead more

Two teenagers have lost much of their legal battle against the raising of tuition fees in England. Callum Hurley, from Peterborough, and Katy Moore, from London, claimed the decision to allow fees to rise breached human rights and equality laws. The 17-year-olds had argued that higher fees would discriminate against poor and ethnic minority students. High Court judges sitting inRead more

Biting her lip in concentration, Khushi Shukla types on a laptop, her tiny fingers flying over the keys. She's learning to touch-type, but what she really likes to do on the computer is draw and paint. Her teacher showed her how to do it once in class and the fact that she can create amazing images simply by moving theRead more

Beijing's health authorities have banned all schools in the city from providing snap beans to students, in order to prevent food poisoning, the Beijing Morning Post reports. Cafeterias at all schools, including universities, high schools and primary schools, are forbidden to cook snap beans, in an effort to make sure that no bean-related cases of food poisoning take place, theRead more

China last year pumped 90 billion yuan (14.2 billion U.S. dollars ) into supporting education for the poor, benefiting more than 79 million students, an education official said Thursday. Of the 90 billion, the central government allocated 73.2 billion yuan as subsidies to students, increasing by 5.6 percent year-on-year, according to Zhang Guangming, director of the China National Center forRead more

Two Florida teenagers have been sentenced to prison for setting a schoolmate on fire. Jesus Mendez, 18, and Denver Jarvis, 17, pleaded no contest to second degree attempted murder Wednesday for setting Michael Brewer on fire in a Deerfield Beach, Fla., parking lot two years ago, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Mendez was sentenced to 11 years in aRead more

At least 10 Palestinian children were killed and some 60 injured when their school bus collided with a petrol-loaded truck on the Jaba'a junction. The bodies of the children, aged four to five years, were burnt when the bus burst into flames after the horrific crash, Ambulances from Ramallah hospitals and Red Crescent brought the bodies and some injured toRead more

Plans to impose penalties on students in England who pay off university loans early are to be abandoned, ministers are expected to announce. Business Secretary Vince Cable had intended to introduce an early repayment penalty. It could have cost graduates thousands of pounds if they had cleared their debts within 30 years of leaving university. The academics union UCU sayRead more

Teachers are required to be up-to-date on their subjects in the interests of their students and also be familiar with the curricula and learning environment in educational institutions in an informal educational setting. This was the message of education experts on the third day of the International Education Forum and Exhibition organized by the Ministry of Education in Riyadh. ThousandsRead more