China has punished eight schools for illegally charging students, the country's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Tuesday. The schools, including four colleges and four high schools, were found to have arbitrarily and unjustifiably charged students in a variety of areas, such as excess tuition for postgraduates and forcing students to pay for school-supplied drinking water, according toRead more

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in its capacity as Coordinator for the Programme of the Gulf Cooperation Council for the Reconstruction of Gaza and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has signed two agreements worth US$ 9.2 million supporting education and emergency shelter reconstruction in the Gaza Strip. IDB representative Mansour Bin Feten, Director ofRead more

looks at 2008-09 school-level expenditures and shows that current system of funding leaves 40 percent of schools that receive federal Title I money in high-poverty schools with fewer resources than the schools of their wealthier peers. “Educators across the country understand that low-income students need extra support and resources to succeed, but in far too many places policies for assigningRead more

Thousands of California public schools face the prospect of slashing up to a week of instruction, canceling bus services, or laying off nonteaching staff in the middle of this school year because state revenues are expected to fall below what the governor and lawmakers counted on when they approved an $86 billion general fund budget last June. The Legislative Analyst'sRead more

Students who occupied a building at the University of Brighton for five days have ended their protest over education cuts and higher tuition fees. About 30 students, who began their protest at an art gallery on the Grand Parade campus on Thursday, decided to leave on Monday evening. The occupiers said in a statement they did not want to disruptRead more

Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) shared its expertise in the production of high-grade aluminium with an eight-member student delegation from the University of Bahrain (UOB)’s College of Engineering who visited the Alba plant.The student delegation from the Instrumentation and Control department were accompanied by the Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Nour Eddine Mansour. During their visit, theyRead more

Every student knows the feeling of anticipating his or her marks, but on Monday it was the teachers’ turn to find out who among them was at the top of the class. Anxiously awaiting the results of the Queen Rania Al Abdullah Award for Excellence in Education’s sixth Teacher’s Award and second Principal’s Award, educators from various schools and subjectRead more

£1.4bn funding for the first wave of Wales' biggest ever school building programme has been announced.Half of the money will be supplied by councils in a programme which has been scaled back since being suspended in July because of a lack of funds.The funding for council priority projects will now take seven years to complete, instead of the original three.TheRead more

Asian American students usually achieve better scores for college admissions, but those "model minorities" get punished rather than awarded for their academic achievements, which makes them feel discriminated. Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and his colleague Alexandria Radford examined applicants to top colleges from 1997 in a study and found that the maximum SAT score at that time was 1600, todayRead more

A number of students from College of Health Sciences of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) visited on Monday a water desalination plant in Doha to observe the reverse osmosis technology.Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) said in a press statement today that engineer Mohammed Safar conducted during the visit a brief lecture on the use ofRead more