More threats were made against New Zealand schools Thursday a day after bomb hoax calls -- possibly from overseas -- disrupted six schools.
China's vocational education has received more government support following a survey last year that exposed weaknesses in the system.
Bomb threats telephoned to six New Zealand schools on Wednesday might have come from overseas, a senior New Zealand Police officer said.
More than 130 schools in the southern Indian state of Karnataka's capital Bengaluru were closed Thursday after three leopards strayed into the campus of one of the schools in the last three days.
The threats made to Australian schools over the past several days appeared to be hoax calls from overseas "designed to cause unnecessary disruption," local authorities said on Tuesday.
A number of schools in the Australian capital city of Canberra have been forced to evacuate after receiving a bomb threat call earlier Tuesday, the Australian Captial Territory (ACT) police said on its Twitter account.
While the Punjab government claims that all public and private schools of the province will reopen on Monday (today), many leading private schools will not open because of what they term ‘harassment’ by the government in the name of security.
Schools in Australia's New South Wales state and Victoria state were placed lockdown on Friday after phone threats sparked police search operations, just days after students returned from their summer holidays.
All kindergartens, primary schools and special schools are suspended today amid the big freeze, with about 510,000 children given an unprecedented cold- day leave.
The bomb threat that shut down the Los Angeles school system was believed to be a hoax, a top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence said on Tuesday.
Chinese schools have been recruiting younger and better-educated teachers over the past five years, according to a report released by the Ministry of Education on Monday.
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 took a major move Wednesday to make its basic education fairer for all, as the State Council decided that government spending shall henceforth be the same for each rural student or migrant workers' child as their urban counterpart.
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.
September marks the start of the new school year in China. As students return to campus, school safety has become the center of attention across the country.
China will include a football training session in the overall student appraisal system, the Ministry of Education announced on Thursday.
China's telecom giant Huawei has sponsored an award in Botswana's education sector and vowed continuous efforts to support the country's development.
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