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  • Dubai's GEMS says to open Indian school in Abu Dhabi

    INDIA, 2015/12/09 GEMS Education has announced the launch of GEMS United Indian School in Abu Dhabi which will open to students from KG1 to Grade 10 for the 2016-2017 academic year. The school will further expand its capacity in the following years, inclunding extend to Grades 11 and 12, the education provider said in a statement. George Mathew, principal, GEMS United Indian School, said: “We are excited about the new school and know that we will be able to build upon the track record by presently created by GEMS CBSE schools in Abu Dhabi and the UAE.

  • More enrollment in Malala's part of the world

    PAKISTAN, 2013/10/13 Malala Yousafzai has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nonetheless, a number of people attribute the hike in girls' enrollment in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to her struggle. Malala's international admiration has boosted the number of newly enrolled girls in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK), particularly Malakand Division. The Malakand Division includes the districts of Chitral, Lower Dir and Upper Dir, Swat, Buner, Shangla and Malakand. "In less than a month, more than 200,000 children, including 75,000 girls have been enrolled in different schools," KPK education minister Atif Khan told DW. He added that the people living in this area had now understood the importance of education in a nation's progress. Khan called what happened to Malala "upsetting" and hoped it would not repeat itself.

  • Kalam village in Pakistan,

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/20 The UAE has opened a new preparatory school in Kalam village in Pakistan, the new part of the government’s $7.5m aid to help fund educational projects in the country, the WAM news agency reported. The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan has opened the school in the village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and is part of the directives and initiatives ordered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The new Haryati School in Kalam village will serve 225 male and female students from primary and preparatory stages. The two-storey building of the school consists of eight class rooms, a computer lab and government facilities.

  • Pakistan's Malala Makes

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/13  Ms. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending school, on Friday addressed hundreds of young people at the UN headquarters in New York, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism. 'Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world,” Ms. Yousafzai said, in an address to the UN Youth Assembly. The Pakistan schoolgirl, who marked her 16th birthday on Friday, told the gathering that the Taliban attack nine months ago changed nothing in her life.

  • School enrollment, primary (% gross)

    EUROPE, 2013/03/19 Gross enrolment ratio. Primary. Total is the total enrollment in primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of official primary education age. GER can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Catalog Sources World Development Indicators

  • Expansion of the higher education sector in South Asia

    ASIA, 2013/03/11 This obstacle can be traced due to problems with student loan systems, which in a lot of nations either do not exist or have high default rates and/or major implicit interest rate subsidies. In recent decades Southeast Asian countries have simultaneously enjoyed rapid economic growth and a significant expansion of the higher education sector. But many countries in the region are finding it difficult to pay for this expansion of their universities.

  • Afghan public schools

    AFGHANISTAN, 2013/01/05 New textbooks, printed as part of an ambitious multi-million dollar exercise to reform the curriculum in Afghan public schools, have been found to contain glaring mistakes, adding from presently on an extra burden on a cash- and resource-strapped sector of this war-torn country. The ministry of education forked out 91 million dollars for the printing of new textbooks as part of a planned massive overhaul of the public education system in Afghanistan. The authors were paid handsomely to ensure the books were of the highest quality.

  • Indian universities should meet global benchmark: President Pranab Mukherjee

    INDIA, 2013/01/05 Pitching for the private sector to play a bigger role in higher education, President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the private sector needed to step up its efforts to convince the people that it offered the best quality of education compared to the highest international standards.
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