The Ministry of Education in China has announced a new regulation that bans any paid make-up classes organized by primary schools or middle schools.
A total of 250 million yuan (about 40 million U.S. dollars) has been earmarked to support rural school renovation in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China.
New Australian data shows China' s rising middle class is increasingly sending their children to Australian high schools.
Mathematics taught in schools is not relevant in the workplace, Australia's chief scientist said on Tuesday.
Some protesters decided on Sunday to withdraw from areas in Hong Kong as a good gesture for talks with the authorities, while secondary schools affected by the Occupy Central demonstration would resume classes on Monday.
As the new school year kicks off across the world, nearly 300,000 children returned on Monday back to United Nations-run classrooms in Gaza and Syria, where the UN is supporting holistic and innovative solutions to ensure the emergency education needs of Palestine refugees are addressed in war-ravaged areas where many of their schools were damaged and destroyed.
As China celebrates the 30th Teachers' Day on Wednesday, experts warn imbalanced distribution of education resources is harming the teachers' interests.
The devastating 50-day conflict has forced the new academic year in the Gaza Strip to begin three weeks late, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday, underscoring the serious psychological trauma suffered by the Gazan children.
Maths lessons used in schools in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea will be used in Australia in an effort to boost student scores, local media reported on Thursday.
Maths lessons used in schools in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea will be used in Australia in an effort to boost student scores, local media reported on Thursday.
At the end of a school day in Beijing's Chaoyang District on Wednesday afternoon, several young boys walked out of the gates of a junior high, lighting a cigarette immediately like old smokers.
More than 400 students in east China's Zhejiang Province have been infected with norovirus, a common cause of viral gastroenteritis, local authorities said Wednesday.
With new heatwave conditions arriving in southeast Australia, South Australian (SA) fire department has declared fire bans across the state, forcing 11 schools to be closed on Tuesday.
With new heatwave conditions arriving in southeast Australia, South Australian (SA) fire department has declared fire bans across the state, forcing 11 schools to be closed on Tuesday.
The death toll of the blast which went off earlier on Sunday near an elementary school in Syria's central province of Homs rose to 20, state media said.
Hong Kong and its neighbor Shenzhen have signed an education agreement, that will allow seven schools in the city of southern Guangdong Province to admit children born in Hong Kong to Chinese mainland parents.
Seven schools in Shenzhen will be allowed to admit children born in Hong Kong to Chinese mainland parents according to the education agreement signed by Hong Kong and Shenzhen, Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said Monday.
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