A gunman who had taken four students hostage at a Moscow public school was detained and all hostages were rescued, the Interior Ministry said Monday. The gunman, a senior student of the Moscow secondary school 263, killed a policeman and a teacher, and injured another police officer, local Vesti-24 TV channel reported. The police evacuated other students and teachers ofRead more

Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III declared on Monday that the government has already wiped out the shortage of classrooms in the country. Aquino made the announcement during the ceremonial turnover of 66,813 classrooms held in Carmona town in the northern Philippine province of Cavite. "As promised, we have wiped out the shortage in classrooms. As a bonus, we wereRead more

A Lao education official has called into question the attainment of Lao PDR's 2015 education targets, according to state-run daily Vientiane Times Monday. The unnamed official said that some areas in education were lagging behind, which might prevent the Ministry of Education and Sports from achieving its education related goals by 2015. Laos has made steady progress in the educationRead more

Two separate shootings near Michigan university campuses left one student dead and two others injured, officials said. Two students were shot at an off-campus apartment near Michigan State University in East Lansing Friday, CNN reported. Dominique James Nolff, 20, of Middleville, Mich., died Saturday of wounds he suffered in the shooting, police said. An unnamed 20-year-old Michigan State student wasRead more

University of Connecticut police said a student arrested over the weekend had $30,000 in drugs stashed in his dorm room. Alexander Angeloff, 22, West Haven, was in jailed on $500,000 bond this weekend after being arrested for a cache of marijuana, heroin, LSD and other drugs allegedly found in his room. The raid was part of an ongoing investigation intoRead more

Two Bard College students were killed in a hit-and-run accident in the Village of Tivoli, N.Y., near the campus, police said. The college community held a midnight service service Saturday in honor of Evelina Brown, 20, of Seattle, and Sarah McCausland, 19, of Winnetka, Ill., who died Friday night, the Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal reported. The Dutchess County Sheriff's Office saidRead more

The seventh edition of the Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS) will be held on March 4-6, 2014 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, organisers of the region's leading education exhibition and conference announced. Now on its seventh year, GESS features leading suppliers and solutions providers aimed at enhancing the quality of education in the Gulf region. Happening alongside theRead more

Palestinian Minister of Education and Higher Education Ali Abu Zuhri met here today with his French counterpart . Vincent Peillon.Discussions during the meeting dealt with ways to strengthen cooperation and joint action between the two sides to support the education sector in Palestine.Read more

The Kuwaiti expedition, "be among the excellent," arrived in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, as part of a multi-station program designed to educate the youth about diverse cultures of nations. Ahmad Al-Sarraf, a press official of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, organizer of the activity, said in remarks to KUNA upon the group arrival in Colombo that Sir LankaRead more

The ‘Etisalat Education Technology Centre’ will be used to focus on research and development. The UAE Ministry of Education launched the country’s first state-of-the-art technology hub on Monday, in association with telecoms operator Etisalat and technology giant Microsoft. The ‘Etisalat Education Technology Centre’ will be used to focus on research and development and experimental educational tools. The hub has aRead more