Education Minister Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi today received Civil Service Bureau (CSB) President Ahmed bin Zayed Al-Zayed and discussed a proposed plan to promote the personnel's professional development in line with the teachers' cadre. Dr. Al-Nuaimi thanked the CSB chief for his cooperation to promote training schemes and improve graduates' standards in Bahrain.Read more

The Minister of Education Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-Nuaimi reiterated that the doors to dialogue in the Kingdom of Bahrain remain open and have never been closed. The Minister, speaking at the Isa Cultural Centre last night stressed that dialogue remain an integral part of the political process and includes all parties, adding that the session was held behind closedRead more

Kuwait ranked top in terms of students studying in other government schools in the gulf, with 42 percent from the total number of registered GCC students of around 40,000 students. In a report issued Wednesday by the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), marking the occasion of the upcoming GCC summit in Kuwait on December 10th, the reportRead more

A 14-year-old accused of raping and killing his high school math teacher in Danvers, Mass., had not guilty pleas entered for him in court Wednesday. Philip Chism is accused in the Oct. 22 slaying of his Danvers High School teacher, Colleen Ritzer, 24, whose body was found in woods near the school with her throat cut and a note reading,Read more

More US college students are graduating with loans to pay for school and the amount of their debt has increased over the years, according to a new report released Wednesday. Seven in 10 college seniors who graduated in 2012 had student loan debt, with an average of 29,400 U.S. dollars for those with loans. The national share of seniors graduatingRead more

A middle school principal in the U.S. state of Texas was placed on leave after she forbade students from speaking Spanish in class, local broadcaster KHOU said Tuesday. A Hempstead school district spokeswoman confirmed to KHOU on Tuesday that Amy Lacey, the principal of Hempstead Middle School, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending investigation of her announcement onRead more

US authorities on Wednesday released audio recordings of emergency calls made to police from the elementary school in Newtown where a lone gunman shot dead 20 children and six adults last year. Recordings of a series of 911 calls made from within and nearby the school were released nearly a year after the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School onRead more

Director-General of Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) Dr. Adnan Shehab-Eddin said Wednesday that the foundation is keen on spreading the culture of science and building the capacity of researcher both locally and internationally. Shehab-Eddin made his remarks after KFAS awards-giving ceremony for the year 2012 and Science Production 2012 for Kuwaiti scientists and researchers, which was held underRead more

China's Shanghai has retained top spot in an international ranking of 15-year-old students, as the results of the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests were published on Tuesday. Shanghai students came in first on reading, math and science, the three subjects covered in the triennial ranking by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It was followedRead more

Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Anqari signed here today a number of development project contracts worth SR 2,979,370 that will serve the higher education sector. In a statement, Dr. Al-Anqari said that these projects come to fulfill the requirements of university towns throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, wishing that these projects would give the universities anRead more