Twenty-five students from the Institute of Applied Technology (IAT) have successfully completed a two-week internship in the Republic of Korea as part of the Nuclear Energy Sudo Summer Programme, a joint initiative between the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec), IAT, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) and the Sudo Electric Technical High School (SDE). The programme, now in its secondRead more

The education, training and professional development event Getex Autumn 2011, will focus this year on vocational education and professional development, organisers announced on Monday.It will be hosted at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre from Oct. 26-28 and will then move on to the Gulf Hotel in Manama, Bahrain from Oct.29 to Nov.1. Organisers pointed out that Getex wouldRead more

Stress can improve performance for confident students but lower it for more anxious ones, a University of Chicago researcher says. Knowing how to deal with stress can make a big difference in performance, says Sian Beilock, an associate psychology professor and expert on poor performance by talented people. In a study published in the current issue of the journal Emotion,Read more

Head of the Cultural Office in the UK Mohammad Al-Hajri told KUNA Tuesday all Kuwaiti students in the British capital are unharmed by the recent and ongoing riots and violence, and noted the majority of the students enrolled in London are in Kuwait for the summer break. Al-Hajri said the office had been keeping an eye on the situation andRead more

The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, honored five UAE national students for working as interns with professors and graduate students on research projects as part of the summer internship program. At an event organized in late July at the Masdar Institute campus, faculty members were additionally honoured for mentoring the five interns who worked on various research areas underRead more

Some 325 Emirati and Arab teachers will be appointed to public schools across Abu Dhabi during the upcoming 2011/2012 academic year, the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) has announced. "While Adec is seeking to attract qualified staff in order to effectively contribute to the implementation of its 10-year Strategic Plan aiming at developing the educational system in the emirate ofRead more

Swaziland's cash-strapped university failed to re-open for the new academic year Monday, officials said, adding it would remain closed indefinitely. "The registration process is suspended, and the commencement of the first semester lectures is postponed... to a date yet to be determined," University of Swaziland Registrar Sipho Vilakati said in a statement. The leader of the student representative council PasikaRead more

The cabinet is in full support of resolving the issue of students who have not been accepted at Kuwait University (KU), Minister of Education and Minister of Higher Education Ahmad Al-Mlaifi said on Monday. Al-Mlaifi told the press after the meeting for the parliament's education, cultural, and guidance committee that the government would provide the necessary financial aid for theRead more

The Cultural Office in the UK would more firmly regulate the study abroad of Kuwaiti students, starting from the selection of their language courses and all through actual study, head of the office Mohammad Al-Hajri told KUNA on Monday. Al-Hajri added that the students would be distributed among proper institutions and geographical locations without too much concentration in any oneRead more

Texas A&M University at Qatar’s petroleum engineering student Sara al-Said has received the Aggie Ambassador of the Year award. TAMUQ events manager and Aggie ambassador programme head Carol Nader said: “Sara al-Said won the Aggie Ambassador of the Year award because she is the embodiment of Texas A&M’s tradition of academic and personal excellence. She is a role model forRead more