The Tawjihi grade will no longer be the only qualifying factor for students wishing to attend one of the Kingdom’s four medical faculties after admission criteria is changed next year, a senior government official said on Monday. Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Wajih Owais said the decision came as a result of the large number of students whoRead more

The Dean of Riyadh College of Technology, Eng. Fahd bin Saad Al-Zamami, announced that the College will receive 10,000 trainees in various specialties in the first training term of the year 1432/1433H. due to start on Saturday. In a statement issued today, he said that the trainees, who have not been accepted, can apply for the next term upon theRead more

A dispute over compensation has developed between Northeast Agricultural University and some of its students who were infected with a severe disease while dissecting goats in class. From March to May this year, 27 students and a teacher at the university in Heilongjiang province were diagnosed with brucella melitensis, an infectious disease classified as serious as SARS and H1N1 flu,Read more

Authorities in a southern Chinese province have ordered schools to take more care after two children died when they were left on hot school buses during the summer, Xinhua news agency said. The hands of one victim, a five-year-old girl, were swollen when her body was discovered, indicating she must have been pounding at the windows of the bus toRead more

A kindergarten has come under fire for asking parents of its pupils to spend 1,065 yuan ($170) on uniforms ahead of the new semester. Xiehe Kindergarten in Guangzhou's Liwan district sent out a notice urging parents to fill in a form with the sizes of their children and promising to buy 27 items to be worn after classes resumed onRead more

Prosecutors plan to call back in the Seoul education chief on Tuesday afternoon for questioning on suspicions that he paid off a rival candidate in last year's election so that he could secure the high-profile position. Kwak No-hyun, the elected superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, is suspected of giving 200 million won (US$186,567) to Park Myoung-gee, aRead more

More than 30 per cent of schoolteachers in Qatar are not qualified to teach, a report by the Supreme Education Council (SEC) reveals. According to the study, 31 per cent of teachers here have no formal qualifications to teach. The figures 35 per cent of teachers in independent schools, 31 per cent in semi-independent schools that have now been convertedRead more

The 10-day practical camp of the Second Student Nanotechnology Olympiad started work with the top 20 students who qualified in the second examination of the Olympiad. Students are supposed to sit for the second stage of the examination on September 11, when the practical camp is over. During this camp, students get ready for the second stage of the examinationRead more

The education ministry has selected 43 private universities that will have their state subsidies partly cut or denied next year as part of a government drive to weed out poorly managed schools, reports South Korea's news agency Yonhap. The ministry said on Monday it chose the universities in consultation with advisory bodies based on the results of a university evaluationRead more

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) has been ranked among the top 200 Asian universities by the 2011 QS World University Rankings recently, said Ministry of Higher Education secretary-general Datuk Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor, here today. "To become a 'golden' university, Unimas must have the best academics, intellectuals and scholars to produce first class graduates," he said at a ceremony to handRead more