About 100 Venezuelan students chained themselves Monday to the front gate of a UN agency's Caracas office, calling for an end to a new high court ruling requiring government approval for protests. Shouting defiantly "so where is the damn law that bars us from demonstrating?" and waving signs that said "we are fighting for everyone's future," the students rallied inRead more

The question was raised by members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference earlier this year and triggered a heated debate in China's education system, where experts and officials urged the development of modern vocational education to ease the imbalance between the labor supply and the huge market demand for technical talents. "There is an urgent need to reform ourRead more

One person was killed and two others were injured in clashes, on Thursday in the Fez-Dher Mehrez college campus, between students from two opposite factions: Attajdid Tollabi and Annahj democrati Al Qaidi, the Wilaya of Fez announced on Friday. The student Abderrahim Hasnaoui succumbed to his wounds, on Friday, after he was transported to the intensive care unit at theRead more

Humaid bin Mohammed Obaid Al Qattami, Minister of Education has approved the promotion of 153 male employees from its different administrative departments and educational zones. This batch is the latest in a series of promotions the ministry of education started earlier this year as part of incentives for its human resources.Read more

The two-day eighth international forum on ecological civilization kicked off here on Friday, attracting nearly 200 scholars and experts from the United States, China and South Korea. Education plays a very important role in ecological civilization, Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr., a well-known postmodern thinker and ecological economist who proposed the green GDP theory, stressed in his keynote speech atRead more

An initial investigation has found that six schoolboys drowned in a lake in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Thursday, local authorities said on Saturday. Police in Tonghai County received reports at around 6:40 p.m. on Thursday that seven children had fallen into Qilu Lake. One student was rescued but six others drowned, said Tonghai county government. An initial investigation foundRead more

Israel is launching a new programme to extend instruction on the Holocaust to children in kindergarten, despite some public criticism that they are too young to understand. "For the first time, there is a comprehensive educational programme for Holocaust instruction to all age groups, from kindergarten to high school," said a joint statement Friday from the education ministry and YadRead more

Education Minister Mahmoud Abul-Nasr along with Culture Minister Mohamad Saber Arab launched Thursday the national project of curricula dramatization at the Cairo Opera House. This project comes under a cooperation protocol between the Ministries of Culture and Education, Abul-Nasr said, noting that the theater was one of the activities that the ministry was keen to sponsor and support. For hisRead more

Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah on Thursday called on secondary students to choose scientific specialties at the university as the country is set to carry out major development projects. Addressing a future youth guidance forum held here today under the aegis of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, the ministerRead more

A high school in this city south of Seoul partly resumed classes on Thursday, eight days after a ferry sank in southern waters, taking the lives of many of its students and teachers on a school trip. Danwon High School temporarily shut its doors shortly after the disaster took place on April 16, believing that it would be impossible toRead more