The Hult Business School has successfully managed to integrate the Apple iPad into its executive education programmes with a global roll-out of nearly 2,000 tablets. The iPads were rolled out onto the Global MBA and Executive MBA programmes across Hult's campuses in London, Dubai and Shanghai. This undertaking was headed by Yousuf Khan, Chief Information Officer at Hult, who spokeRead more

More than 194,600 youngsters benefited from the programs of Mawhibah (the King Abdullah and His Companions Foundation for Talent and Creativity) during 2010, according to the annual report of the foundation for the year 2010.The Mawhibah envisions to convert the Kingdom over the next 10 years into a knowledge-based society led by talented youth with outstanding educational and intellectual accomplishments,Read more

The first examination to evaluate applicants' capability to teach nanotechnology was held at Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council last week.Participants in the exam included teachers and promoters from promotional and educational nanotechnology companies from across the country. In this examination, the scientific capability and skills of the participants in transferring the concepts of nanoscience and technology were evaluated. Participants who acquireRead more

Robert Icart is an African American who has never been to China, but he decided to send his 5-year-old son to a public school which conducts 90 percent of its teaching in Chinese in its kindergarten classes."Here in the United States when I go shopping, I find most of the products are made in China, that shows me the importanceRead more

Mongolian teachers will stage a strike from Monday next week to press the government to raise their salaries, the Trade Union for Education and Science said Friday.Teachers from some 89 secondary schools and 100 kindergartens of Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, will participate in the strike, also supported by provincial educational organizations.The teachers asked school children's parents and guardiansRead more

U.S. colleges are adding unusual questions to their applications, including the University of Maryland asking to share "my favorite thing about last Tuesday." The question, which the university asks applicants to answer in 25 words or less, is part of a recent trend of schools asking short answer questions on subjects atypical for a college application, such as New York'sRead more

Local authorities in the Northern Border Province are to closely monitor the amount of food sold in school canteens. Abdul Rahman Al-Harbi, director of the services division for the province’s Education Department, told Al-Eqtisadiah business daily the department has concluded deals with local and branch municipalities to work out a mechanism to closely monitor the quality and standard of mealsRead more

A third examiner has been suspended following allegations that she suggested a course was easy. The chief examiner, from Edexcel exam board, was recorded by the Daily Telegraph saying the course content was so small she did not know how it had been passed by the regulator. Edexcel says the examiner regrets making the comments. Two examiners from another boardRead more

Saudi Aramco unveiled plans to expand the Traffic Safety Partnership Program, being implemented together with the Ministry of Education, to lower phases of school education in the Eastern Province. Sultan Al-Zahrani, director of the traffic safety program at Saudi Aramco, said that more than 700,000 boys and girls from all phases of school education in the region would benefit fromRead more

Education is one of Europe's best investments for overall growth in troubled economic times, President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber Dr. Christoph Leitl said Wednesday. Although Europe's main concerns now are monetary, the structural problem of its labor force's education is also a challenge, Leitl said when addressing the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. If the region wants toRead more