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Jordan teachers strike over demand for salaries to double
Feb 8, 2012, 10:08 GMT
Amman - Thousands of Jordanian teachers went on strike Wednesday for the third consecutive day to demand a sharp increase in their salaries, forcing a closure of classrooms across the kingdom. ... more
Thailand to buy 900,000 tablet computers from China for schools
Feb 3, 2012, 3:53 GMT
Bangkok - Thailand is to buy 900,000 tablet computers worth 2 billion baht (64.5 million dollars) from China for its primary school students, a news report said Friday. ... more
Indian teacher tells children to fetch liquor, dance
Jan 30, 2012, 8:05 GMT
New Delhi - A teacher in central India was suspended after he told a student to fetch liquor for him and forced a group of girls to dance in a locked room, news reports said Monday. ... more
Oprah's first South African class graduates from high school
Jan 14, 2012, 12:43 GMT
Johannesburg - US talk show host Oprah Winfrey was in South Africa on Saturday to watch the first class of her Leadership Academy for Girls graduate from high school. ... more
Sweden rejects blanket ban on veils in schools
Jan 11, 2012, 14:26 GMT
Stockholm - Sweden's education agency on Wednesday rejected a blanket ban on veils but said that teachers had in some situations the right to ban students from wearing them. ... more
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Analysis and Features
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Guttenberg plagiarism scandal is blow to German academia (Feature)
Feb 28, 2011, 14:21 GMT
Berlin - Germany's plagiarism scandal, in which a university stripped Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg of his doctoral degree, has raised questions about why no one noticed his failings as a student. ... more
Mrs Sarrazin at centre of new German political row (Feature)
Jan 18, 2011, 2:06 GMT
Berlin - The name Sarrazin is back in the headlines in Germany, but this time it's not Thilo Sarrazin, author of a best- selling book that criticizes Muslim immigrants for living off social welfare. ... more
- Taiwan primary school turns out finance whizz kids (Feature)
- China's strength in PISA study highlights schools' weakness (Feature)
- Britain's royals not amused by attack on Charles' Rolls (Feature)
- Britain's students up in arms about rising cost of learning (Feature)
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