Farmer Duakin Jaikol has traveled many times from his remote hometown in Keningau, to Kota Kinabalu.On June 20, though, the 49-year-old took extra care to ensure he did not miss a very important trip to the Sabah capital.The 130-kilometre journey through the rugged Crocker Range Mountain was very crucial to Duakin. He was invited to attend a special gathering-cum-luncheon atRead more

Qatar Charity and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will construct 12 schools in Gaza at the cost of QR13 million ($3,570,230). The GCC countries have allocated QR9 million ($2,471,700), while Qatar Charity provided more than QR3.5 million ($961,216) for the 12 schools, Qatar Tribune reported on Monday. The project will provide 130 classrooms to ease the current average ofRead more

An American professor will be knighted by the French government later this year for using social media to connect her students with their peers studying English in France. The French consul will knight Lara Anderson, of the University of South Carolina, as a member of the academic order that was founded in the early 1800s by Napoleon and honours contributionsRead more

A quarter of primary schools do not have a single male teacher. Staff rooms in 4,278 of the 16,971 primaries in England are solely populated by women, according to official figures. There are just 25,500 men teaching young children, compared with 139,500 women. To make matters worse, a quarter of the male teachers in primaries are over 50 and closeRead more

The recent graduation of the pioneering batch of Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Masdar) brought the UAE closer to its 2030 goal of shifting to a knowledge-based economy. The graduation of Masdar's 72 sustainability and clean technology engineers, presents the market with locally trained talent ready to tackle national energy needs through applied research. "It feels great to knowRead more

China's Ministry of Education has publicized its budget for government-funded overseas trips, vehicles and receptions in 2011, becoming the second ministry in doing so after the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) published it in April. In a statement posted Friday on its official website, the education ministry said its budget for overseas trips, vehicles and receptions in 2011 totalledRead more

Last week, advertising executives hosted a free one-day workshop to give students a rare insight into the creative and demanding world of advertising with an aim to nurture UAE talent. More than 20 students signed up for a first look into the world of advertising, hearing from industry professionals how to take their first steps in a $500 billion (Dh1.8Read more

Thirty Emirati students will share their eagerness to learn with peers from around the world as they joined the "Summer Abroad Programme" in Australia. The programme is held in partnership between the Abu Dhabi Education Council (Adec) and Bendigo Tafe (technical and further education), an entity under Australia's Victorian Government, that provides education, training and assessment services. This is theRead more

A 15-year-old student will represent her school at the Global Young Leaders Conference in the US this month in which she will highlight the importance of combating child labour. Ameenah Kausar Bintory, who recently graduated from year 10 at Cambridge International School in Dubai, will attend the conference that will be held from July 11 to 20 along with 300Read more

The preventability of the prevalent diseases plaguing the UAE's population illustrates the general public's ignorance of basic medical matters crucial to healthy living said some of the country's future doctors last week. Mohammad Sami Moghamis, President of the Emirates Medical Students' Society (EMSS) believes the rate of people suffering from Type 2 diabetes and hypertension can be significantly lowered byRead more