Education News Stories

Posted by Muhammad Iqbal 569 ISLAMABAD: All the political parties in their manifestos have focused on reforms in education sector to a larger extent for the first time in the history with commitments to enhance education budget upto 4 percent … Continue reading →

Inside the “sensory room” at Pequea Elementary School, all is calm — by design. Here, students with autism or similar disorders can escape the classroom cacophony. Kids can crawl through gauzy colored tubes, relax in a rope swing, dig in … Continue reading →

(MENAFN – Arab Times) 4 million students enrol every year in basic education in region. A report issued by KFH-Research noted that the volume of education market in the GCC is 45 billion of total volume of the MENA region … Continue reading →

Digital education programs being introduced to schools in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE will have a positive long-term effect on students, says the regional president of Pearson, the world’s leading education company. GCC governments’ expenditure on education as a … Continue reading →

Kansas education advocates said they were surprised by a provision added to the 2014 state budget banning the spending of any money to implement the national Common Core standards for math and reading.    The provision mirrors language of a bill … Continue reading →

National Association of Head Teachers conference votes against Government’s policies Concerned about curriculum overhauls, exam reform and academies By Rosie Taylor PUBLISHED: 07:10 EST, 18 May 2013 | UPDATED: 10:37 EST, 18 May 2013 No confidence: Headteachers have criticised Education … Continue reading →

Why The Open Office Fails, And A Solution Susan Adams Forbes Staff Rethinking Education: Why Our Education System Is Ripe For Disruption Naveen Jain Contributor I suggested in my first article that our education system is not broken but has … Continue reading →

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school’s history and … Continue reading →

NEW YORK, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — United Medical Education, a company that provides online certification for Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS), is now offering free PALS, BLS and ACLS … Continue reading →

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) has accredited Capella University’s Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy program. The 5-year accreditation, awarded without stipulations, is the longest period of accreditation granted to newly accredited programs. Capella … Continue reading →