Thousands of students are expected to protest in London later, in a campaign against higher tuition fees and "privatisation" in universities. They are planning to march to the City of London, where a protest against corporate greed has been taking place outside St Paul's Cathedral. Last year a wave of student protests ended in violent clashes. The Met Police saidRead more

U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday spent some time with the preschool set, using a visit to Philadelphia to promote early education initiatives. Obama, who has been locked in a bitter partisan dispute with Congress over initiatives to promote job growth and cut the deficit, visited the Yeadon Regional Head Start Center, where he watched the youngsters play with blocks, puzzles,Read more

Video classes of 20 courses from top Chinese universities will be available free of charge through the Internet starting Wednesday, according to the Ministry of Education. Similar to Harvard open courses, the video classes will be provided on www.icourse.edu.cn, China Network Television and the web portal Netease for free. The open courses of China's universities, feature 20 scientific and culturalRead more

The number of students enrolled in colleges and universities in Brazil doubled from 2001 to 2010, reaching 6.379 million, the Education Ministry said Monday. Citing a college census, the ministry said that college enrollment was up 7.1 percent in 2010 from 2009. Education Minister Fernando Haddad said the figures indicated the growing access to college education in Brazil, adding thatRead more

There's little sex education in China, but it hasn't stopped young people from having sex. The rates of premarital sex, unwed pregnancy and abortion are testament to that. A report released by the National Working Committee on Children and Women last year showed what China's 15- to 24-year-olds have been doing: 22.4 percent have had premarital sex. (Based on aRead more

Iranian students in a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano voiced their strong protest at his biased and pro-western approach towards Tehran, and underlined Iran's inalienable right to use peaceful nuclear technology."Not today, not tomorrow, no government and no power in the world is able or allowed to trample and tarnish the inalienable right ofRead more

Recently retired Chinese basketball superstar Yao Ming enrolled at an elite university in Shanghai on Monday, state media said, four months after he quit the game because of nagging injury problems. The former Houston Rockets centre said after his first day at the Antai College of Economics and Management of Shanghai Jiao Tong University that he had a "strong desire"Read more

Forty-eight percent of US middle and high school students suffered sexual harassment in the past school year, both in person and online, a national survey released Monday said. And 87 percent of those students said the experience had a negative impact on them, according to the survey of 1,965 students in grades seven through 12 conducted by the Association ofRead more

New research on Monday showed over the past few years here are an increasing number of Australian university students successfully completing their degrees. According to a study by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), just 72 percent of students enrolled in 2005 completed the bachelor degrees, while in 2008 the completion rate was 80 percent. According to ACER SeniorRead more

A group of African university students arrived Monday in Turkey's eastern province of Van to help the victims of a recent massive earthquake, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. The African students, studying in Turkish universities, arrived in Ercis town of Van, bringing humanitarian aid to the quake victims, according to the report. The students were quoted as saying thatRead more