Teaching young children with autism to imitate others may improve their social skills, U.S. researchers suggest.Brooke Ingersoll, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University, found toddlers and preschoolers with autism who were taught imitation skills made more attempts to draw the examiner's attention to an object through gestures and eye contact -- a key area of deficit inRead more

A school bus overturned at about 6 p.m. Monday in Fengxian county in the city of Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, leaving 12 students dead. The bus belongs to the primary school of Zhanghoutun village in Shouxian township in Fengxian, said a spokesperson with the Xuzhou municipal government. According to the preliminary investigation, the school bus was trying to avoidRead more

More than 400 children were evacuated on Monday from a school in eastern Moscow following a bomb threat call, a police source said. Sappers have rushed to the site.There has been no official confirmation of the report.Read more

That level of state involvement has made the 39,000-student district an attractive laboratory for Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican seen as a national leader on education reform, and for prominent donors, including Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, who have pledged $148 million to remake this city’s failing schools. But the influx of money, and the attendant national spotlight, has galvanized aRead more

Ever increasing drop out rates from schools and universities, as well as, the lack of educational facilities for citizens over the age of 50, have prompted senior educational officials in the emirate of Abu Dhabi to look closely at these concerns. "This is the first time that the issue of adult education is addressed and this is because the AbuRead more

Up to half a million more children from disadvantaged backgrounds are to benefit from the pupil premium, the government is set to announce.The premium of £488 per child goes to schools on top of their main funding.At present it only applies to children currently receiving free school meals, but in future anyone who has been registered for free meals inRead more

Exam board Edexcel says it is "certain" the standard of its qualifications are on a par with those of other boards, following an internal review. Edexcel said it had found no evidence to support a chief examiner's claim that its GCSE geography tests were not as difficult as those of other boards. It said it had analysed data from allRead more

The funding will help MasteryConnect offer a larger scale platform for teachers to share, collaborate, and assess around the new Common Core Standards, attempting to make it simple and easy for them to find, administer, score, and track student data from formative assessments. “MasteryConnect is a company at the leading edge of a paradigm shift in education—towards mastery of coreRead more

In a move to expand its business activities and offer educational expertise globally, Tecom Investment's Education Cluster has recently been in talks with Maltese education companies. They have also recently visited China to foster partnerships with education companies there. Maltese education companies visited Dubai last week to network with Dubai-based education institutions and to discuss issues of business opportunities. TheRead more

Playwright Alan Bennett has said budding working-class writers are being blocked from following in his footsteps by university tuition fees. Bennett, a butcher's son from Leeds, went to Oxford University. But he said he would not have been able to pay tuition fees, meaning his career would have taken a different path. Young writers in a similar position have fewerRead more