The Chinese central government has invested 61.8 billion yuan (10.1 bln U.S. dollars) improving schoolhouses and educational facilities in rural areas over the past four years. Since 2010, 39.9 billion yuan from the central budget has been used in schoolhouse renovation and 21.9 billion yuan in educational equipment, said Liu Limin, deputy minister of education, at a press conference onRead more

Prince Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed, Vice President of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) for Research Institutes has said that among the most prominent achievements of the Program of Common Excellence Centers and the Program of Technological Innovation Centers launched by the City in partnership with a number of Saudi universities and international research centers areRead more

Kuwaiti Minister of Education and of Higher Education Ahmad Al-Mulaifi and the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Thamer Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on Thursday inaugurated the Kuwaiti pavilion at the 29th National Heritage and Culture Festival (Al-Janadriyah) here, held Under the auspices of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The two officials toured the pavilion where the itemsRead more

A former student activist was acquitted in a retrial Thursday more than 20 years after he was imprisoned for aiding and abetting the suicide of a fellow activist and forging his will. In 1992, Kang Ki-hoon was convicted of ghost writing the will of Kim Ki-sul and persuading him to set himself on fire and jump to his death fromRead more

President Park Geun-hye called Thursday for fundamental changes in the way English is taught in South Korea, saying families spend too much money on English education as the current system requires all students to learn high levels of the language. Park made the remark during a joint policy briefing by the education and culture ministries, saying that about one-third ofRead more

Marriage thrives among educated and wealthy Americans, but the relationships of working-class and poor couples are often frail, threatening child development and well-being. High divorce levels, cohabitation and tenuous partnerships are among the factors that hit lower-class, uneducated families especially hard. It’s a problem so serious that federal and state governments have been funding what are called “healthy marriages andRead more

Sweden's decentralization of the primary educational system over two decades is considered to have "failed", a recent report presented to the Swedish government said, arousing heated debates in the election-year. The decentralization of school system that started in the early 1990s is an "intervention" of the country's development from the politicians' side and it is a failure, said Leif Lewin,Read more

A Kuwaiti delegation is currently in Malaysia and is to visit a number of establishments here, keen to benefit from the expertise of the country in the field of printing and distributing copies of the Holy Quran."Malaysia boasts of the world's second biggest Quran printing house," and the visit is therefore of great value to the delegation, said the KuwaitiRead more

Taiwan education authorities approved changes to high school textbooks that replace "China" with "the Chinese mainland" in a move to more accurately present historical facts, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday. The guideline also requires high school textbooks to emphasize Japan's colonial rule from 1895 to 1945. Observers said the revisions are a positive move that will present a moreRead more

The former French football world champion Lilian Thuram is in Ecuador to give a series of lectures against racism and promotes his foundation "Education Against Racism". "It's important to overcome racism. From my experience I want to talk to children so they will not have the biases when they grow up," Thuram said at a press conference here on Tuesday.Read more