Indian students to shun Australia due to racist attacks
30 Dec 2009: Australia’s international student sector, the third largest export earner, is forecast to see a 20 percent drop in Indian students in 2010, costing $69.7 million, after a series of attacks on Indians students in 2009. A study by The Tourism ForecastingCo-education gains unlikely nod from Saudi religious police chief
15 Dec 2009: JEDDAH - A hardline member of the Saudi religious police sparked anger among Saudi clerics recently after he eased his views on ikhtilat, the mixing and interaction of unmarried and non-blood-related men and women. The change of heart from Sheikh Ahmed alThe Israeli mainstream school system
10 Oct 2009: TEL-AVIV - In the year 2000, when I was in the ninth-grade, we studied our history from a large and expansive book. Because history teachers in the junior high school are free to some extent to determine what is studied in the classroom, we learned 19thUyghurs face an education dilemma
07 Oct 2009: BEIJING - Language, culture and identity have always been thorny issues in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Recent developments in the educational system once again bring into the spotlight the delicate balance between China'sPhasing out Islamic Teaching in South Nigeria
01 Oct 2009: LAGOS – Muslim leaders are accusing authorities in the Christian-majority southern states of intentionally undermining Arabic and Islamic teaching in public schools by faking a teacher scarcity. “Most public schools in the South-West lack teachers ofGood news for graduate job seekers
28 Sep 2009: The graduate job market has received a boost with the news that 32.9% of all employers are planning to increase graduate recruitment levels in 2010. The Association of Graduate Recruiters says a further 43.5% of companies plan to keep levels constant. TheSaudi looks to the future, opens coed university
23 Sep 2009: Saudi Arabia’s new $10 billion, state-of-the-art science and technology university welcomes the country’s first coed student body Wednesday in one of the king’s keystone attempts to power his country into the 21st century with renewable energy andFuture hub of international education?
07 Sep 2009: Malaysia will play host to an international education conference next month as part of its goal of becoming a regional hub for international higher education by 2010, with 100,000 students studying at its higher education institutions. The concept ofPuntland State University's History
06 Sep 2009: Puntland State University (PSU) has its roots entrenched from the patriotic and humanitarian joint efforts of KAALO (local NGO) and Diakonia of Sweden that has been instrumental in providing the much needed financial support, physical structures andMillions of student loans have interest rate cut to zero or less
02 Sep 2009: Millions of students and graduates will see the cost of their loans drop to zero or lower tomorrow, after falls in the retail price index this year. While the majority of students – those who took out loans after 1998 – will see the interest on theirKing approves 4 new universities
25 Aug 2009: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved the establishment of four new universities in Dammam, Alkharj, Shaqra and Majmaa, Higher Education Minister Khaled Al-Anqari announced Monday. The minister thanked the king for his continuousIsrael removes Nakba from schoolbooks
23 Jul 2009: RAMALLAH: The Israeli government has decided to remove references to what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said on Wednesday. The term “Al-Nakba,” is used byMI5 target teachers through advert placed in educational press
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02 Jun 2009: The endeavor of Aussie Muslims in the small town of Camden to build an Islamic school to server nearly 1200 students has been dealt a major, final blow as a superior court ultimately supported the locals who have long rejected the school plan. "TheHow Information Technology Can Help Africa’s Education System?
30 May 2009: As every one knows most of the African countries are suffering civil war based not on ideology but tribalism, as is the case in Somalia. Even thought the African continent is plagued with clansmanship and civil war, no country has been suffering most thanFatuma Omar Ismail: A scholar
30 May 2009: If Fatuma was an ordinary Somali girl, she might well have been traded for some cows or a couple of camels by now. At 15, she's at prime marriageable age and as the daughter of a poor family, her bride price would be a comparative bargain. Luckily Fatumaslashnews
Mohamed Ali Samatar: Facing war crimes lawsuit in US
The case has divided courts. A federal judge in Alexandria ruled that even if the immunity law does not mention individuals, such protection is the "practical equivalent" of immunity offered to a state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in
Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
Forty-five years ago on Feb. 21, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — had begun his address to a mass meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City at the Audubon Ballroom when several men opened fire on him with shotguns and
Somali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
Somalia's sports minister has died in a Saudi hospital weeks after he was critically wounded in a bomb attack at a medical graduation ceremony in Mogadishu. Saleban Olad Roble passed away on Friday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he and other victims
Dubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
Dubai will issue arrest warrants for 11 foreign agents suspected of involvement in the the assassination of a top Hamas military commander in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, the police chief said on Monday. "We do not rule out Mossad, but when we
