Some UAE pupils yet to obtain negative PCR results can start school a day

29 August 2021

Some school pupils in the UAE who have been unable to obtain negative PCR results in time for Sunday can return to school a day late, the UAE’s public…

Skills Needed by Our Students to be Prepared for the Future

29 August 2021

The pandemic has surely shifted the job market landscape. What skills sets do we need to equip our students with to be ready for the future?

Edtech

Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M pre-seed round

26 August 2021

Marathon Education was created after its founders realized after-school education in Vietnam hadn’t evolved much since they were kids.Read the full…

U.S. schools back off in-person teaching; strategy changed by surging virus

26 August 2021

A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rapidly…

Bringing the Education Sector in Egypt into the 21st Century through

26 August 2021

Egypt boasts the largest education system in the Middle East with more than 23.5 million preuniversity students, 1 million teachers, and 56,000…

Wellbeing

China bans exams for six-year-old school children

31 August 2021

The education ministry says excessive exams are affecting the physical and mental health of pupils.Read the full article at: www.bbc.com

Future Leaders

New Media Academy hails successful first year promoting opportunities for

31 August 2021

The New Media Academy, the first of its kind in digital media in the Middle East, has completed its first year of operations with qualitative…

Women allowed to study but no coeducation in Afghanistan

31 August 2021

The Taliban's acting higher education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said on Sunday that women will be allowed to study at universities but there will…

Students in UAE can collect free books from BookHero in Dubai

31 August 2021

All students from any educational institution in the UAE can pick up a total of four educational books per student, for free, until September 4 from…

Big repetition problem at schools in South Africa: report

31 August 2021

Many students in South Africa’s school system have had to repeat a grade, placing significant fiscal strain on the education system. Read the full…