The Senate Education committee on Thursday approved a bill that addressed when high school students can use Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship money. The bill generated debate about whether high school students who take courses for both high school and college credit go out of state for college or stay in Kentucky. The KEES program provides scholarships to students who earnRead more

The lunar Chinese New Year celebrated throughout China by all ethnic groups means to Karma Trinley a time to pray for quake victims. On Friday morning, the first day of the lunar Chinese New Year this year, the Tibetan teacher drove with his friends to a large sky-burial site in northwest China's Gansu Province. Like hundreds of other tibetans inRead more

The Prime Ministry indicated, Thursday, that rumours which have circulated during the last two days on the government's plans to abandon the decision to create a faculty of medicine in Medenine, are unfounded, reasserting the government's attachment to implement this project, in line with the recommendations of the cabinet meeting held November 21, 2013. The Prime Ministry informs, in aRead more

Higher Education's Secretariat organized a forum to meet with partners and relevant bodies to scientific research in sectors of higher education, business and industry, in the presence of 60 participants from various government and private sectors.Higher Education Council's Secretary-General Dr. Riadh Hamza, in his speech, said the forum aims to narrow the gap between higher education and labour sector, inRead more

The second phase of the m-Government training and education programme kicks off on Sunday, through a training course targeting IT managers and attended by managers of departments concerned with Information Technology, application and systems development and cyber security at the Ministry of Interior. The training course will be held at the Hilton Capital Grand Hotel, Abu Dhabi from February 2nd-5th.Read more

Marwan Al Sawaleh, Undersecretary of Ministry of Education, opened today the International Education Show (IES) at Expo Centre Sharjah. The show is an important event in the academic calendar of students seeking to pursue undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational courses in leading educational institutes in the UAE as well as abroad. The show will also be a key platform for studentRead more

The Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs has constantly been following up the case of the Bahraini student Ahmed Al-Nashaba who was abducted in Malaysia last Tuesday. A Bahraini diplomatic delegation was dispatched to follow up the case with the relevant Malaysian authorities and maximum efforts continue to be exerted to ensure the abductee's promptest release. The Bahraini delegation continues theRead more

Poor quality education means 250 million children worldwide fail to learn basic reading and mathematics skills, dpa cited the UN's cultural organization warning on Wednesday. The education crisis, which wastes an estimated 10 per cent of global spending on primary education, leaves a legacy of illiteracy more widespread than had been believed, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization saidRead more

More than 40 people have been killed and a school district supervisor was kidnapped in separate incidents in the Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The violence on the island of Mindanao was spurred by police officers attempting to arrest rebel fighters, the New York Times reported. The incidents occurred days after a landmark peace deal was signed Saturday with the country'sRead more

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, alongside the Bahrain Embassy in Doha, recently sponsored the annual orientation ceremony held by the Cultural Attaché’s Office of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Qatar, for new Bahraini students studying in Doha. The orientation ceremony, held at the Diplomatic Club in Qatar, was held under the patronageRead more