At the age of three, the students of an infant school here have become the first among their counterparts in Italy to get familiar with Chinese culture and language. "We could not choose a better period than the Spring Festival to start teaching Mandarin as our third curricular language beside Italian and English," Renata Cirina, head of the infant schoolRead more

Bahrain has contacted Malaysian authorities after a Bahraini student was kidnapped from his university campus and his parents here were given 24 hours to pay ransom. Bahrain's Foreign Affairs Ministry on Wednesday said it was coordinating with Royal Malaysian Police to secure the release of Ali Al Nashaba, who was kidnapped on Tuesday. The ministry said it "clarified the newsRead more

H.H. Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has issued an administrative decision No 2 of 2014, amending the administrative decision No.11 of 2013, pertaining to restructuring of the Board of trustees of the Sharjah Education Council. The decision restructures the Board of Trustees of the Sharjah Educational Council under the chairmanship ofRead more

The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday found Ireland liable for sexual abuse suffered by a girl at a Catholic-run state primary school in the 1970s. "The Court found that it was an inherent obligation of a Government to protect children from ill-treatment, especially in a primary education context," the court said in its ruling of a case broughtRead more

Japanese Education Minister Hakubun Shimomura announced on Tuesday that the ministry has revised the teaching manuals for junior and senior high schools to claim territories in dispute between Japan and China and between Japan and South Korea. The new teaching manuals describe the disputed territories as "Japan's integral parts," according to Japan's Kyodo News agency. It is unusual to reviseRead more

Gunmen kidnapped two ranking public school officials in southern Philippines on Monday, police authorities said Tuesday. Police Regional Office 9 director Chief Supt. Juanito Vao identified the victims as Rudy Luna and his wife, Tessie who are both supervisors of a public elementary school in Kumalarang town in Zamboanga del Sur province. Vao said eight unidentified gunmen barged into theRead more

The University of Michigan- Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute has been cited for successful partnership and bestowed a special award by the Institute of International Education (IIE), a U.S.-based non- profit organization. The IIE announced a full list of winners of the Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education at its website Monday. The Sino-American joint institute, locatedRead more

Dubai Customs has launched the new edition of the annual IP Award for public and private schools, universities and colleges countrywide for the school year 2013-2014. Started in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher Education and Knowledge and Human Development Authority in Dubai, participation in the award is open to students from all schools in the country,Read more

China's academic circle is under the spotlight after a series of plagiarism scandals, with scholars and experts demanding an urgent cleanup. Dr. Li Junxiu wrote a letter of complaint to a publishing company in east China's Shandong Province after she found her work on Mencius had been copied. She found her work in a Confucian classics book published by ShandongRead more

Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid Al-Anqari has recently visited the pavilion of King Saud University (KSU), participating in Canada's Career Day coinciding with the graduation ceremony of the fourth batch of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Program for Foreign Scholarship for 2013/2014.The graduation ceremony was held in the conference center in the capital ofRead more