Beijing health authorities will spend a year monitoring the overweight and obesity rate in the city's schools as part of an effort to reduce the number of fat children.
To Wang Mudi, a grade six student at a rural junior middle school, nothing beats calligraphy class every Wednesday.
In the heart of Cairo's Maadi, one of the Egyptian capital's upscale districts, lies a two-story villa that is quite indistinguishable from other buildings in the neighborhood.
Mahboob Jafari had barely seen the inside of a classroom, let alone taught in one, before he arrived in Indonesia as a refugee fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.
Don’t worry - children can still be making progress in their literacy even if they are declared to be ‘below year-level expectations’
"The main obstacle on our way to get higher education is the indecent traditions against women and illogical culture of families that opposing education for girls," 16-year-old girl student Khatira said.
China's sports system has been enormously successful since the country returned to the Olympic fold in 1980, culminating with the host nation topping the medals' table at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with only a slight dip into second place behind the United States in London four years later.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recently penned a letter on how to best address the issue of campus violence.
The British Council has obtained a licence from the education authorities to operate its first kindergarten in Hong Kong, the organisation announced yesterday.
On Friday, 14 students in eastern India's Bihar who topped school examinations will face three teachers in an office in the state capital, Patna, to be retested.
Even more students than last year can opt out the annual gaokao this year, as it approaches next week. In recent years, an increasing number of parents sent their children to overseas schools. Even though there's increasing amount of negative news about this group, the parents think this is the best option for their children, especially compared to what they can get at home.
China's primary and secondary school Chinese language textbooks have been revised to focus more on traditional culture, according to an editor.
Change is unfolding at Shanghai's No.1 Children's Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has churned out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades.
The quality of air and water near a school hit by a pollution scandal in which nearly 500 pupils have fallen ill, is “normal”, Chinese authorities say – though environmentalists and parents remain sceptical.
A storm is brewing in east China's Changzhou City over whether toxic waste is responsible for an increased incidence of lymphoma and leukemia among school kids in the city.
China's Ministry of Education sent an inspection team to east China's Jiangsu Province after media reports claimed that pollution near a school is threatening student health.
After fleeing from one school to the next in search of safety, a 49-year-old quake evacuee spent a restless and chilly night outside in a schoolyard.
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