The funding will help assist Iraqi universities get accreditation for their business programmes.The University of Dubai will use a $500,000 (Dh1,836,500) grant from USAID to help two Iraqi universities improve the quality of their business programmes, which has deteriorated after wars and economic hardship.USAID is part of the United States Government's reconstruction and development effort in Iraq and has devotedRead more

The Big East Conference plans to invite as many as six schools into the league in hopes of rebuilding its football membership, the New York Post reported. Syracuse and Pittsburgh have left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference and TCU abandoned the league before ever becoming a part of it, choosing instead to join the Big 12. ThatRead more

A French maths teacher who doused herself in petrol and set herself on fire in front of terrified pupils died of her injuries on Friday, police and a hospital source said.  The 44-year-old was hospitalised on Thursday after walking into the playground of a high school in the southern city of Beziers with a jerry can of fuel and startingRead more

Deputy Ibrahim Kenaan said the government must pay the free schools their dues, in order not to suffer more. The Parliamentarian Finance and Budget Commission held on Thursday 10:30 a.m. a meeting at the House of Parliament, under the chairmanship of MP Ibrahim Kenaan, from the Bloc of Reform and Change. The meeting was attended by MPs Ahmad Fatfat, JamalRead more

A dozen new schools with a combined capacity of 12,000 seats have already opened for the 2011/2012 academic year, a senior representative at the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) has revealed."This means there are currently 55 licensed private schools across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and we expect additional 10 or 12 schools to open their doors next September," saidRead more

Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea's top-ranked university, said Friday it will offer its first Japanese studies course next year, breaking a longstanding taboo stemming from Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. SNU officials said the university will next year establish the department of East Asian studies, which will include the comprehensive study of languages and cultures ofRead more

A national student protest in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement failed to gain expected momentum in Los Angeles on Thursday. Thursday's National Student Solidarity Protest was organized by "Occupy Colleges," a grassroots movement initiated in the Los Angeles area by the alumni of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) together with some activists. "Occupy Colleges" claimed on itsRead more

A group of Jewish extremist settlers Thursday continued their attacks on a Palestinian school in Hebron, throwing glass and empty bottles at it, according to the school principal Ibtisam Al-Jondi. Al-Jondi said that a group of extremist settlers attacked the school and, when the school janitor tried to stop them, he was assaulted and beaten. She added that Israeli soldiersRead more

The three-day International Education Show started at Expo Centre Sharjah on Wednesday. Speaking at the inauguration, Fawzia Hassan Gareeb, Assistant Under-Secretary for Education Operations in the Ministry of Education, told Gulf News that the show is a leading higher education event that provides a platform to showcase higher education opportunities for students across emirates. Gareeb said the UAE has earmarkedRead more

Almost half of England's further education colleges have seen a decline in student numbers - with the drop blamed on the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). An Association of Colleges survey shows 49% have fewer students than last year. Financial pressures, such as the loss of the EMA allowance and the cost of transport, are named as theRead more