The Interior Ministry is ready for the upcoming school year, said an official here Wednesday. Interior Ministry's Assistant for Operation Affairs Major General Abdullah Al-Muhanna told the press that all precautions would be taken to ensure the safety of students heading to their schools and educational institutions, adding that the Interior Ministry would take care of traffic during such busyRead more

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Wednesday announced they were extending funding for language and literacy education across the Pacific. They unveiled goals to ensure 500,000 more children in the Pacific were enrolled in school and 75 percent of all children in the region could read by age 10 by 2021. An estimated 1Read more

One of China's top business schools opened an office in London on Tuesday. The Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is Chinese mainland's first "homegrown" business school to establish an overseas branch. The school seeks to provide customized business courses for European executives who are or will be dealing with business issues related to China and the rest ofRead more

The education sector in Abu Dhabi is undergoing a major transformation. All private and public schools in the emirate will soon be operating under the umbrella of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) in association with the Ministry of Education (MoE), a top official said in the capital yesterday. In addition to creating at least a thousand new jobs inRead more

Remembering Japan's quake-tsunami disaster, one child writes how the earth rumbled and roared, another recalls that the black wave stank and a third, who lost her friend, calls the tsunami "greedy". The stories -- simply written, touching and often heart-breaking -- are among a collection of children's essays published in a book titled "Tsunami" that has touched a nerve inRead more

As the new academic year in Abu Dhabi begins, a thousand qualified new teachers and administrators have been recruited by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec), officials from the council announced yesterday.Speaking at the Bedaya Forum, which marks the start of the academic year next Sunday, Dr Mugheer Al Khaili, Director General of Adec, said this new phase will seeRead more

To promote world-class education in line with international standards, Khalifa Award for Education has launched the 2011-2012 competition for excellence in teaching. This is the fifth consecutive year these awards are granted and this year the total worth of the awards will be Dh12 million. "The Awards focus on encouraging creative educators who use multiple advanced high-tech tools in theirRead more

A Confucius Classroom was jointly launched here Tuesday by the Bolan senior high school in Uppsala, Sweden, together with China's Tianjin Experimental Middle School. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chen Ling, Party Secretary of the Tianjin Experimental Middle School, said his school and Bolan school have built up deep friendship and trust after they became sister schools in 2003. "TheRead more

For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer. A few hours away, every student at Burlington High School near Boston will also start the year with new school-issued iPads, each loaded withRead more

Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) is offering 4,900 places in various courses which will be open for registration tomorrow. UMS vice chancellor (VC) Prof Datuk Dr Kamaruzaman Ampon anticipated an increase in the number of students. "Last year we offered 5,000 places but those who came for registration were about 4,900. "We also expect to receive appeals for entry after theRead more