Education ministers of the Group of Seven major nations agreed at a two-day meeting that ended Sunday to promote education to create societies where diversity is valued.
A woman's education level and the number of children affect breastfeeding, according to research results from Australia's University of Queensland (UQ) released on Tuesday.
The destruction of Syrian and Iraqi heritage sites by the Islamic state (IS) group have been a wake-up call for nations on how much damage lack of education can cause to the global community.
Schools will receive better student-counselling support from a team of psychologists provided by the government after four pupils committed suicide in five days.
Japan's education ministry said Friday that more than half of the nation's publishers of school textbooks had broken strict censorship regulations, with thousands of teachers potentially being paid illicitly to provide input to the books.
China's top legislature on Sunday adopted an amendment to the Education Law to strengthen bilingual teaching among ethnic minorities and improve higher education.
China has spent more than 8 billion yuan (1.25 billion U.S. dollars) subsidizing farmers' children in Tibet to attend boarding schools since introducing the policy three decades ago, the regional education department said Thursday.
China will extend old-age insurance to its full population, the leadership decided at a key meeting which ended on Thursday.
Bvzenap Ahemet, 19, a Uygur girl from the far western region of Xinjiang, is glad her efforts to learn Mandarin have paid off.
Six students, four grades: This is the enrollment of Mengjiashan Primary School, built and designed for about 100 students, in the landlocked province of Gansu in northwest China.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang commended Tuesday the country's 15 million teachers for their contribution to China's development, two days ahead of the National Teachers' Day.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang commended Tuesday the country's 15 million teachers for their contribution to China's development, two days ahead of the National Teachers' Day.
China's telecom giant Huawei has sponsored an award in Botswana's education sector and vowed continuous efforts to support the country's development.
Visiting U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday highlighted the importance of education for girls in London, calling for more opportunities for girls' education in poor countries.
The World Education Forum (WEF) 2015 opened in South Korea's port city of Incheon Tuesday to set a new goal and framework for action on education for the next 15 years.
Some 60,000 students and supporters demanding education reform marched through downtown Santiago Thursday, as the center-left government grapples with a major corruption scandal.