Poor youngsters are dropping out of college because the government's replacement for the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is "inadequate", a report says. The Barnardo's report says lower levels of money and a lack of access to it are leaving some of England's poorest students with no choice. Young people are skipping meals in order to pay their fares to college,Read more

Education experts from seven MENA countries will gather in Dubai in coming days, from February 7 to 9, for a workshop on how to use the results of their school assessments to improve education across the region. The workshop, the sixth and final in the series, will include presentations and recommendations by the seven countries to their respective Ministers andRead more

A coalition of teachers supported by the March 14 coalition, the Amal Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party won elections in the League of Elementary and Middle School teachers in public schools in Lebanon. All the teachers on the 17-member list were successfulin gaining seats, while a member of the rival list, comprised of Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement andRead more

The Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) launched their first workshop about Environmental Science Schools in cooperation with Ministry of Education. It is part of the PME program to establish schools that have adopted environmental education as an important theme in the coming years. One hundred and forty-three teachers attended the National Program for Environmental Awareness titled Be’aty: Green Flag,Read more

The New Delhi-based Knowledge Resource Development and Welfare Group (KRDWG) honored three teachers at the International Indian School (IIS)-Jubail’s special care section for their laudatory services to society. Ameena Ambareen, Saira Oommen and Blessy Jos were presented with the Educational Excellence Award at a special function at IIT-Delhi recently. Besides the awards, KRDWG presented a latest version of iPad forRead more

Swift action by an assistant engineer in informing the Fire and Rescue Department about a fire which broke out at a religious school at Batu 7, Jalan Meru near here saved the life of 23 students. Sahipulbahry Sahiddin, 46, who spotted thick smoke spewing from the Pusat Tahfiz Darul Mustafa religious school, quickly rushed into the burning school and alertedRead more

Attorneys representing Arizona parents who “voluntarily” allowed their home to be searched by authorities after social workers used an anonymous tip to threaten to handcuff them and seize their five children, and then summoned deputies to do that, have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the controversy.The Home School Legal Defense Association has filed a petition asking theRead more

As the only girl in her noisy classroom of 22 boys, Padma Kanwar Bhatti is one defiant symbol of the toll exacted by India's deadly preference for male children.Padma, 15, lives with her parents and two elder brothers in Devda, a village of 2,500 residents in the Rajasthan state district of Jaisalmer, which has one of the worst female sexRead more

Shutting yourself from the outside world by plugging in earphones and listening to music while walking on the streets might help kill stress. But it can also kill you if one is to go by the recent accidents involving “distracted pedestrians”.Sixteen-year-old Kaushlendra Pal, a Delhi student, was crushed to death by a speeding train Saturday afternoon as he failed toRead more

Over 1,100 students and teachers of the reputed Vidya Valley School here screamed with joy when Vandana Suryawanshi became the first foreign teacher to be chosen for a prestigious US space programme next April. And she herself is already looking forward to sharing the knowledge she gains there with her pupils.A thrilled Vandana, who teaches at the school, told IANS:Read more