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Enrollment of Hispanic students attending college in the United States surged 24 percent from 2009 to 2010, narrowing gaps with other groups, a think tank says. The number of Hispanic 18- to 24-year-olds attending college rose by 349,000 to reach 1.8 million, the Pew Hispanic Center said in a release Thursday. The Hispanic population in that age group grew byRead more

National school infrastructures network will count by next season 24,932 establishments, (primary schools, intermediate educations schools and high schools) to receive some 8,239,000 students.Read more

President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika insisted on the need for continuing the implementation of measures to reduce further school wastage.Read more

Girls have increased their lead on boys for top grades in GCSEs, in another record-breaking year of results. More exam entries were given the top A and A* grades and just under 70% were awarded between an A* and a C grade. The performance gap between boys and girls has now reached its the widest ever - 6.7 percentage pointsRead more

About 77 million U.S. children and teens, or 27 percent of population, were enrolled in school -- nursery school to college -- in 2009, the Census Bureau says. Seventy-four percent of children ages 3-6 were enrolled in an all-day kindergarten, as of October 2009, while 55.5 million are projected to be enrolled in the nation's elementary through high school thisRead more

The Higher Education Ministry has rejected the call for the setting up of a cabinet committee to investigate alleged shortage of intellectuals and experts faced by University of Malaya, the country's oldest university. Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said such a committee was not needed because the situation at the university was not due to any wrongdoing and couldRead more

The Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) has received over 900 applications for its 2011-12 scholarship programme, the council announced yesterday.The submissions, which were double the number received for the 2010-11 programme, were for students wishing to pursue degrees in electronic engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, economics, accounting, finance and medicine. "[Applications for] electrical, chemical, electronics, and mechanical engineeringRead more

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia should urgently modernize its higher education system so that it conforms to today's demands. Russia allocated nine billion rubles (over $300 million) to create an innovative educational infrastructure in Russian universities in 2010-2012. Higher education budget expenditures more than doubled since 2005 and stood at 390 billion rubles (almost $14.5 billion)Read more

Students at a Lancashire university are being offered accommodation at a holiday camp in Merseyside. Edge Hill University, in Ormskirk, is placing some of its 25,000 students in holiday apartments at Pontin's in Southport after campus halls filled up. The university, which was founded as a women's teacher training college in 1885, has seen applications quadruple in the past decade.Read more