Myanmar has been striving for promoting literacy in the country as part of its bid to raise the nation's education standard in line with its international level. The country's literacy campaign 2014, which started in the first week of April, covers 29 townships across the country with a total of 4,261 students and 403 faculty members engaged in teaching 46,479Read more

Chinese experts have suggested school textbooks include Qing-Dynasty (1644-1911) literary evidence on the discovery of the Diaoyu Islands by China, following Japanese approval for competing claims to be covered in school books in Japan. Peng Ling, an expert on antique books with the China Association of Collectors, said that the Diaoyu Islands have belonged to China since ancient times andRead more

The 3rd GCC Math Olympiad 2014 kicked off here, Sunday, organized by the Ministry of Education under the oversight of the Arab Bureau of Education for the Gulf States (ABEGS). The competition was inaugurated by Minister of Education Madiha bint Ahmad bin Nasir Al-Shaibaniyah and each of the GCC member states is represented by a group of six students. TheRead more

A Chinese court has sentenced the head of a kindergarten and an accomplice to death for killing two children with poisoned yoghurt in northern China, state-run media reported Sunday. Kindergarten head Shi Haixia poisoned the children last year in a revenge attack aimed at a rival school in Hebei province which had higher enrollment, state broadcaster CCTV reported. A courtRead more

Japanese government on Friday approved new elementary school textbooks claiming the disputed Diaoyu Islands as part of Japan's territory, arousing strong denunciation from China immediately. The revised textbooks, which will be used from the next academic year starting April 2015 for fifth and sixth grade students, won approval from Japan's Education Ministry. All social studies textbooks approved for use inRead more

Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour on Thursday discussed with the Bahraini Education Minister Majid Al Nuaimi bilateral relations and means to further enhance these in all fields. During the meeting, Ensour briefed the Bahraini official regarding the appreciable level that higher education has achieved in the Kingdom, and called upon Bahrain to benefit from the Jordanian experience in this area. TheRead more

The Australian government is delivering on its plan to create a more effective and efficient skills and training system with a focus on providing practical, job-ready skills that employers want, Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane announced in a statement Thursday. Macfarlane on Thursday chaired the inaugural meeting of the COAG (Council of Australian Governments) Industry and Skills Council in Brisbane,Read more

Education Minister Mahmoud Abu el-Nasr dismissed Wednesday news reports claiming that some school students had been poisoned. The minister accused parties whom he did not identify of spreading rumors to cause panic among the public and to make students afraid of eating school meals distributed to them for free. Abu el-Nasr stressed that those behind such rumors targeted undermining theRead more

Marcos Perez, of Oviedo, Calif., said his 5-year-old daughter told him that a teacher at Carillon Elementary stopped her from praying at lunch last month. Last week, Perez posted a YouTube video of his daughter, Gabriella, providing her account of the incident. "I was about to pray and say something to Jesus," the kindergartner says in the video. "The lunchRead more

Aswan police were able to contain clashes that erupted earlier Wednesday between residents and students of a secondary technical school that left 10 people injured from both sides. The confrontation erupted over an old dispute. Police troops rushed to the area. They fired teargas to separate the two sides. A number of people engaged in the fight were arrested. TheRead more