A brief History of the Soviet Muslims
02 Apr 2010: The history of the Muslims in the former Soviet Union is largely but not entirely the history of the Muslim descendants of Genghis Khan, the Mongol conqueror. Daghestan was the gate through which Islam entered the territory of Russia. The first MuslimsIndian 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
12 Jun 2009: Would a teacher make a good spy? MI5 would seem to think so, as its new campaign to recruit intelligence officers targets classroom teachers, with an advert strategically placed in today's Times Educational Supplement. "You may not realise it," the advertAussie Muslim School Gets Fatal Blow
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 thanslashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland