Minister of Education, Abdul-Razzaq al-Ashwal, held here on Monday a session of talks with Djiboutian Minister of Communication and Culture, Ali Hassan Bahdon.The talks dealt with mechanisms to develop the bilateral cooperation agreement between the ministries of education in the two countries and the possibility of signing a cooperation agreement between the General Corporation for School Books Printing Press (GCSBPP)Read more

A forum, themed "guiding youth toward better professional future," will be held on Tuesday under His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah's auspices. The three-day forum aims to guide young citizens on how to choose studies and specialize in domains most wanted in the domestic employment market, said Jamal Al-Holi, the forum chairman, in remarks to KUNARead more

Students and school administrators representing the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education at the GCC-sponsored 16th edition of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for distinguished Academic Excellence won a number of highly-coveted accolades, it was learned here on Saturday. Kuwaiti student Hiba Al-Fadhli won the award for best student and Nawaf Al-Mutairi and Ala'a Al-Kanderi won for best teachers inRead more

China on Saturday kicked off its army recruitment of 2014, focusing on recruiting youngsters with higher education background. A ceremony was held in the Tsinghua University to encourage college students in Beijing to join the army. More than 2,000 college students swarmed into the campus to consult or enroll. Wang Yaping, the second Chinese female astronaut entering space, appeared atRead more

Hoax bomb threats issued on social media prompted evacuations at three separate high schools in the U.S. state of Oklahoma Friday. School officials at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa city, east Oklahoma, learned of a bomb threat on Twitter Thursday evening and sent all students arriving at school Friday morning to a field house while police made aRead more

While many Chinese parents send their children to schools abroad under the pressure of an exam-oriented educational system, a growing number of foreigners are discovering the merits of Chinese education. Despite high tuition fees and complicated admission procedures, Aron Ma, a Chinese-American from New York, has decided to send his two granddaughters to a kindergarten in Beijing in order toRead more

The Nigerian military on Friday admitted that most of the 129 girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists from their school in the country's restive northeast remained missing. The military had claimed on Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 girls snatched from their school in the state of Borno managed to escape, contrary to the position of the stateRead more

Minister of Education, Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi, todayreceived Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the Kingdom of Bahrain, AhmedRashid Khatabi, and reviewed joint cooperation in education and higher educationareas, and gave an overview of the Education Ministry's development and serviceefforts.Read more

Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated students continued their protests against the referring of six of their colleagues to a disciplinary board in Fayyoum University. The MB students staged a number of protests and rallies inside the campus of Fayyoum University on Thursday in which they chanted slogans against police and army. In the meantime, Fayyoum University President Abdul-Hamid Abdul-Tawab, teaching staff and studentsRead more

The Nigeria military announced Wednesday that 121 Nigerian girls abducted from their school in northeastern Nigeria earlier in the week by Islamist militant group Boko Haram "have been freed." Eight girls remain missing. Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade reported that one of the alleged kidnappers had been captured and that a search and rescue mission was underway to "ensure the safetyRead more