Defense Minister Prince Salman on Wednesday opened the first phase of a university campus project in Al-Kharj and laid the foundation stone for the university's administrative and support deanship building. "I am very happy to visit the Prince Salman University and meet its staff and students," the minister said. He noted the Kingdom's educational progress and said there are 24Read more

Scotland is preparing for severe winds, with gusts of up to 90mph being forecast. The Scottish Government said schools across west, central and southern Scotland would either not open or close early. The government's Resilience Committee was told key routes were likely to be closed and motorists would be advised not to travel. Very severe gales are expected to affectRead more

More than 38,000 exam entries in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were regraded after schools asked for re-marks, the exams watchdog Ofqual says. Overall, there was a 19% rise in requests for re-marks for this year's A-level, GCSE and AS-level exams. Ofqual says the numbers were affected by a rise in GCSE exam units. But A-levels were not changed inRead more

All of this concentrated learning — activities parents commonly think of as enrichment — was taking place not after school hours, but during recess, the once-unstructured midday break that for some elementary school students is slowly being squeezed out of the day. Jump rope, freeze tag and the jungle gym have some new competition. At some of the city’s highest-ratedRead more

BOSTON. Miami. Los Angeles. Washington DC. You see them in all the major cities and even the smaller ones, too. Since the 1960’s, places like San Diego and Washington state have been the temporary home for Saudi students as they pursue their higher educations there. Freshmen replace graduates in a recurring cycle that has persistently reaffirmed the lure of USRead more

Eight students from Emirates International School went bald to raise awareness about breast cancer. The students shaved their head for the Hair for Hope campaign, where people, young and old, donate their locks for cancer patients. The donated hair will be sent to Beautiful Lengths to make wigs for cancer patients. Because wigs made from human hair are very expensiveRead more

China's top business school will start independent admission, with a focus on taking in more students from rural areas in its undergraduate program. The Guanghua School of Management at Peking University will enroll 30 to 50 students through its newly launched independent admission program in 2012, said Gong Liutang, associate dean of the school, during a news conference on Wednesday.Read more

The qualification currently required for head teachers in England's state schools will no longer be compulsory, the government has announced. Head teachers have attacked the change as a "backward step". In theory it would mean that a head teacher could be appointed without any teaching qualification. Schools Minister Nick Gibb said governments needed to "step back and let heads getRead more

There is no hard evidence that schools in England are slipping behind other countries, says an academic study. Ministers have cited a decline in international league tables as a reason for introducing school reforms. But the results of international tests are not consistent, says John Jerrim from the Institute of Education. However, a Department for Education spokesman said it wasRead more

Education and human resource development in the Kingdom was the focus of discussions on Tuesday at the Saudi-US Business Opportunities Forum in Atlanta, Georgia. The Atlanta talks are significant, as an estimated 51 percent of the $385 billion budget for the Kingdom's 9th Development Plan will be spent on human resources development through 2013. Minister of Education Prince Faisal binRead more