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  • Institution to develop links with Swedish agency

    Mansoura University hosts education development conference

    Mansoura University hosts education development conference
    Arabstoday
    Education development conference in Mansoura
    Dakahlia - Rami Kinawy
    Mansoura University President al-Sayed Ahmed abd el-Khalek has chaired an education development conference at the institution's campus in Dakahlia governorate. The event, titled: Education For Sustainable Development In Higher Education Institutions, was held at the university's Quality Read more...
  • Plans to fund £150m research centre at ex-BBC site

    Chinese university in talks to open UK campus

    Chinese university in talks to open UK campus
    Arabstoday
    BBC White City building in West London
    London - Arabstoday
    One of China’s top universities is planning to set up a new campus at the former BBC site, in West London. According to London newspaper Evening Standard, Zhejiang University has signed a deal with Read more...
  • American University of Sharjah sole UAE representative

    4 Saudi institutions make QS World University Rankings

    4 Saudi institutions make QS World University Rankings
    Arabstoday
    Main campus of American University of Sharjah
    London - Arabstoday
    Four Saudi universities have been listed in the 2013 QS World University Rankings by Subject, published on TopUniversities.com. The list compiles the top 200 universities in the world among 30 Read more...
  • 70,000 pupils enrolled in American universities

    US proves popular destination for Saudi students

    US proves popular destination for Saudi students
    Arabstoday
    Saudi students are given US scholarships by the government
    London - Arabstoday
    Saudi Arabia sent 34,139 students to study in the United States in the academic year 2011-2012, making it the fourth largest provider of foreign students to US colleges after China, India and South Read more...
  • French police say victim had troubled past

    Man commits suicide in front of primary school children

    Man commits suicide in front of primary school children
    Arabstoday
    Concerned parents and children wait outside La Rochefoucauld school in Paris
    Paris  - Arabstoday
    A middle-aged man with a history of family problems shot himself dead Thursday in a Paris primary school near the Eiffel Tower, in front of about a dozen stunned children. The man, Read more...

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Research

Bilinguals switch between languages shows study
Tehran - FNA
Individuals who learn two languages at an early age seem to switch back and forth between separate "sound systems" for each language, according to new research. The research has been conducted at the University of Arizona and will published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the
Research shows practice doesn't make perfect
Tehran - FNA
Turns out, that old "practice makes perfect" adage may be overblown as new research has found that a copious amount of practice is not enough to explain why people differ in level of skill in two widely studied activities, chess and music. In other words, it takes more than hard
Security flaws found in heart device sensors
Ann Arbor - UPI
Security vulnerabilities in sensors found in heart devices like defibrillators and pacemakers mean the devices can be tampered with, U.S. researchers said. In experiments in simulated human models, an international team of researchers including scientists at the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina demonstrated they could "forge" an

Saudi school reform

New kindergarten syllabus
Saudi 3 to 5-year-olds will be taught life skills
Riyadh - Arabstoday
The Saudi Ministry of Education has announced plans to adopt a new syllabus for kindergarten schools across the kingdom, in line with its national strategic plan for pre-school learning. According to Arab News, Read More...

Features and Reports

UAE Ministry of Education honours schools and teachers
Dubai - Arabstoday
The Ministry of Education yesterday honoured teachers, schools and educational districts who contributed to developing education in the UAE at the first cycle of the Emirates Award for Educational Excellence Read More...
Russian court to review schoolgirl murder case
Moscow - Itar-Tass
The Supreme Court of Tatarstan on Monday will begin review of the criminal case over the murder of Vasilisa Galitsyna, 8, a resident of the town of Naberezhnye Chelny. The Read More...
Indian university lecturer detained in UAE
Dubai - Arabstoday
An Indian university lecturer has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allegedly blogging against a Dubai-based university, Gulf Times has reported. The unnamed individual's contract at a Read More...
2 injured in Russian school explosion
Moscow - Itar-Tass
Two teenagers were hurt in an explosion at a secondary school in Russia’s North Caucasian republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the North Caucasian regional emergencies centre told Itar-Tass Read More...

Electronic Learning

European agency celebrates birth of the web
Washington - Arabstoday
Twenty years have passed since the web was launched in the public domain on 1993, when the European science agency CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee, the web inventor worked officially, made the W3 software. CERN has launched Read More...
Bahraini students develop robotic arm
Manama - BNA
Within their graduation project in Electronic Engineering at University of Bahrain, two students lately developed a robotic arm, which works with Android. The two students, Ibrahim Abdul Razaq and Saud Abdul Aziz said that in their Read More...

Higher education

Kandil discusses ways of upgrading higher education
Cairo - MENA
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil held a meeting on Tuesday with Minister of Higher Education Mostafa Mossad to discuss means of upgrading higher education and scientific research. Kandil called on Mossad to Read More...
Kuwait and Egypt sign student agreement
Cairo - MENA
Kuwaiti students at Egypt's Assiut University's Social Work Faculty can now follow up their post-graduate studies without having to leave their country in accordance with an initial agreement reached with Read More...

International universities

Saudi medical college forges links with Dutch school
Riyadh - Arabstoday
The Batterji Medical College has signed an agreement for scientific cooperation and academic and research and training with the Dutch Maastricht University. It was signed at the university campus in Maastricht, the Netherlands. The college was represented by Dr. Khalid Batterjee, dean, accompanied by Dr. Hassan Shaibah, vice dean for academic affairs. On
University of St Andrews wins teaching award
London - Arabstoday
Staff at the University of St Andrews have been recognised for their excellent teaching. In two separate awards – one with winners nominated by Heads of School and the other by students – the best teachers have been acknowledged for their dedication in supporting students through their studies. This is the first

Arab Universities

Jordanian universities hit by tribal violence
Amman - AFP
Unprecedented and sometimes deadly tribal violence at university campuses in Jordan threatens the country's ambitions to build a solid system of higher education, experts warn. The latest unrest broke out in the restive southern city of Maan last month. Maan has a bloody and rebellious past dating back to the turn of
Egyptian medics attend faculty dinner
Cairo - Arabstoday
Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University celebrated its graduation of a new batch of students within the annual 34 medical conference of the faculty, which was held under the title "Our health between the present and the future," headed by prof. D. Mamdouh Al-Kafrawy ,dean of the faculty, and began

Questions and Answers

Could writing exercises help fight stress?
London - Arabstoday
A new study suggests that stressed workers could improve their problem-solving skills by writing a note about something important to them at the start of each day. Researchers found that taking time out to write a brief essay on the importance of friends and family, for example, can offset the harmful effects of chronic stress on our ability to finish tasks. The study found that highly stressed
Right to education haunted by teacher shortage?
New Delhi - Arabstoday
Three years since it came into being and promised free and compulsory education to all children in the 6-14 age group in India, redressing violations of the Right to Education (RTE) Act across the country has been apparently poor, a fact ascribed by the chief monitoring body to teacher shortage and lack of educational infrastructure. An RTI reply reveals that till date only 32 percent cases

 

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