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SINGAPORE - Youths who require financial aid for school fees and living expenses will be able to continue to apply for aid under NTUC Income's community outreach scheme.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

The state House Education Committee on Monday unanimously approved a package of legislation that would enhance the quality of career and technical education programs throughout Pennsylvania. State Rep. James Roebuck, D-188, Philadelphia, Democratic chairm...

What novel by Jane Austen is also a girl's name starting with the letter E? What famous playwright was born in Stratford-upon-Avon?. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Though Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) teachers can use a professional development fund set up by their school to pay for their parking charges, such in-kind benefits are still part of their remuneration package and subject to income tax, said the Ministry of...

The Ministry of Education and Training, through the Department of Education, has issued a statment to all parents, teachers and students on Ambae, advising them to prepare to move to...

UNO wins award at model UN event...

Last year, I worked with Charlie, a typical kid. He was a bright student, taking a few honours classes and scoring around the 90th percentile on standardised tests. He ran cross-country in the autumn and played lacrosse in the spring. He had a group of cl...

Education news from Tucson and Southern Arizona....

And a list of the most challenged books, in this week's roundup of education news....

Several female students, seen bullying and hitting another student with a toilet brush in an online video, have been disciplined, said their school's principal.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

The former officials expressed bipartisan concern that the federal government is not demanding accountability from local school systems....

SINGAPORE - A video showing at least four young female students from Assumption Pathway School ganging up and hitting a schoolmate with a toilet brush, has been making the rounds online, going by social media posts on Friday morning (April 13).. Read more...

Florida Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart spoke at an Argus Foundation luncheon Thursday....

James Cook University's programs are uniquely designed to produce the next generation of career-ready graduates.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Parents who do not want their children learning about Islam or Judaism are abusing their right to remove them from religious education lessons, teachers have warned. Selective withdrawal driven by......

The baseball bats are symbolic but could also be used to defend students and teachers in the event of a school shooting....

At least nine objective questions in physics from Set C in the JEE were the same as those in the mock test held by a Hyderabad-headquartered coaching class, with even the values in the problems being similar, some students who took the national Joint Entr...

Education news from Tucson and Southern Arizona....

Education news from Tucson and Southern Arizona....

As teachers incorporate more real-world learning into their lessons, more are looking to authentic teaching materials such as news sources to hone lifelong skills in their students.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

NEW YORK On a recent Sunday, Dr Bari Hillman, who works during the week as a clinical psychologist at a New York mental health clinic, was perched at a clear, plastic desk inside a 16-year-old's bedroom, her shoeless feet resting on a fluffy white rug...

The Class 12 Economics paper of CBSE was leaked on March 23 - three days before the exam date - in Himachal Pradesh's Una town and it was shared on at least 40 WhatsApp groups, Delhi Police said on Saturday after the arrest of three people in this con...

SINGAPORE - Diploma students at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts will have to complete an internship, industrial attachment, industry project or community project from July this year if they are to graduate.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

When Ms Shazadi Begum Mohamed Siddiqe, 32, started her career as a pre-school teacher fresh out of school in 2007, she found it tough going.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

What do digital marketing, food safety, semiconductor fundamentals, oral presentations and counselling have in common?. Read more at straitstimes.com....

SINGAPORE - When teacher Mrs Sharon Choo-Tan Su Cheng faced problems getting an autistic Primary Three student to pay attention in class, she consulted colleagues and his parents for help.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

SINGAPORE - When Ms Shazadi Begum Mohamed Siddiqe, 32, started her career as a pre-school teacher fresh out of school in 2007, she found it tough going.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

SINGAPORE - What do digital marketing, food safety, semiconductor fundamentals, oral presentations and counselling have in common?. Read more at straitstimes.com....

The report comes amid a divisive national debate over federal guidance on school discipline issued during the Obama administration in 2014....

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore leads the list of top institutions in the overall and university categories, according to the National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings for 2018....

Private school graduates continue to fall behind their public university counterparts, even as more of them are working part-time, a survey has found.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Geographer Lily Kong, 53, who made history three years ago as the first woman provost of a publicly funded university here, is scoring another first.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

The report found more community-college students suffered from food and housing insecurity than students at four-year institutions....

The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru was adjudged the overall best institution in the country by the HRD ministry's national ranking framework....

SINGAPORE - Geographer Lily Kong, 53, who made history three years ago with her appointment as the first woman provost of a publicly funded university here, is scoring another first. She will soon be the first Singaporean academic and social scientist to ...

SINGAPORE - Fresh graduates from private schools continue to fall behind their counterparts from public universities, a survey on employment outcomes has found.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

Education news from Tucson and Southern Arizona....

Space geeks are amped up for tomorrow's SpaceX rocket launch off the coast of Florida and an Idaho journalist will be at the launch site reporting for our partners at Idaho Education News....

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked alongside MIT, Stanford and Cambridge in a list of top 10 institutions most often identified as...

A desire to help their friend for a few thousand rupees led Rishabh and Rohit - the duo arrested in the CBSE paper leak case - to commit the crime, a police official said on Sunday....

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she will continue her campaign for girls' education. The Oxford University student is visiting Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Islamic militants in 2012....

Plus positive trends in school-related crime, and teacher protests around the county, in our weekly education news roundup....

There's good news and bad news in the weekly education news roundup, so read on! Thousands of teachers have government grants converted to loans An NPR exclusive reports that upwards of 12,000 teachers who volunteered to teach in high-needs areas, in ...

There's good news and bad news in the weekly education news roundup, so read on! Thousands of teachers have government grants converted to loans An...

The police have questioned over 60 people in connection with the CBSE papers leak case, including the administrators of over 10 WhatsApp groups on which the leaked question papers were shared, as the investigators sought to trace the origin of the leak....

The CBSE is expected to announce on Monday or Tuesday the next date of re-examination for Class 10 mathematics and Class 12 economics subjects, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar said on Thursday, in the wake of paper leaks....

Students across the country are terribly upset with the news that the CBSE has ordered the re-examination of the Class XII economics and Class X maths papers....

Union minister Prakash Javadekar today called the CBSE exam paper leaks "unfortunate"; and promised speedy arrests in the matter. The CBSE yesterday announced retests for the Class 10 Mathematics and Class 12 Economics exams following reports that ...