Minister of Education Dr. Saleh al-Rashed said that the ministry and its affiliated bodies finished preparations for the new school year which is set to begin on Sunday, September 18th. In an interview with the Syrian TV, al-Rashed said that all of the 22,500 schools across Syria are fully prepared to receive the 5.6 million students and 390,000 teachers whoRead more

The Rector of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Dr. Khalid Al-Sultan has met here with Executive President of World Organization for Press and Publication Christoph Reese. In a press statement following the meeting, Reese said, "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is an important country in the world and its media sector is promising", indicating that media companiesRead more

A delegation of the British university of Brunel visited today the University of Najran. During the visit, the two sides discussed issues pertaining to cooperation between the two universities.Read more

An elementary school in a village west of Manama, the Bahraini capital, was targeted in a Molotov cocktail attack promptly condemned by the education ministry. The attack on Khamis elementary school occurred on Thursday morning, four days after classes resumed in all government schools in Bahrain following the summer vacations. "Assailants hurled the Molotov on a storage room where schoolRead more

Half of all Britons want to bring back corporal punishment to restore discipline in the classroom, a survey indicates. The Times Educational Supplement's survey of 2,000 parents and 530 children found 49 percent of parents would like to see the return of spanking or caning, a practice that was banned 25 years ago, for unruly students, The Daily Telegraph reportedRead more

Two Jordanian teachers will head to the US along with dozens of their peers from across the world to take part in the Partners in Learning Global Forum in Washington, DC, on November 7. Suhair Abu Hamad from Um Kolthoum School and Fatima Al Alem from Huraima Secondary School will compete in the forum where innovative projects involving the integrationRead more

A five year-old boy has died in a playground accident at a school in south-west London. It is thought he fell off a climbing frame at Tolworth Infant & Nursery School at lunchtime on Thursday. In a statement on the school's website, the head teacher said her thoughts and sympathy were with the child's family. The school was due toRead more

Six-year-olds in England will face a new reading test next summer, after trials this year.They will be tested on how they read using phonics, where children learn the sound of letters and groups of letters.The government says nearly half of the teachers who took part in the trial said it had helped them identify children with reading problems.But teachers' unionsRead more

Mandarin Chinese is becoming a more popular foreign language course being taught in the U.S. public school system, as students have started a new school year in September. The Labor Day holiday weekend is traditionally the last major summer holiday for U.S. public school students before starting a new school year. For the 2011-2012 school session, a number of theseRead more

A 78-year-old Bulgarian man started off the new school year on Thursday like hundreds of children a fraction of his age ... in first grade. Apostol Stoyanov from the central village of Popovtsi never got a chance to attend school when he was a kid and decided to enroll in first grade this year, at the age of 78, theRead more