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UN calls for strict rules against AI tools in schools
The United Nations called on Thursday for strict rules on the use of AI tools such as viral chatbot ChatGPT in classrooms, including limiting their ... World News -
Tuition hike approved for Dubai private schools for 2023-24 academic year
Private schools in Dubai can increase their tuition fees by 3 percent for the 2023-2024 academic year, the emirate’s Knowledge and Human Development ... Gulf -
Ramadan in the UAE: Some schools get two-week holiday during holy month
Students in some schools across the UAE will have up to two weeks off during Ramadan, according to local media reports.Spring break at several schools ... Gulf -
UAE COVID-19 rules: All schools, universities to operate at 100 pct capacity in 2022
Health officials in the United Arab Emirates have announced that all schools and universities will return to 100 percent capacity from January 2022 as ... Coronavirus -
Third of all schoolchildren in UAE vaccinated against COVID-19: Officials
More than a third of all schoolchildren in the United Arab Emirates and the majority of teaching staff have now been vaccinated against COVID-19, ... Coronavirus -
Abu Dhabi requires COVID-19 PCR test for private, charter school students, staff
Students and staff in Abu Dhabi private and charter schools are required to get a PCR test prior to returning to in-person learning, the Department of ... Coronavirus -
Lebanon’s schools shutdown to protest a worsening socio-economic situation
The rapidly evolving prospects of the economic crisis in Lebanon are leaving students uncertain and worried about the future as financial issues have ... Middle East -
CDC sets guidance for US schools to reopen safely in COVID-19 pandemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped into the longstanding debate over whether and how to keep schools open during a pandemic, ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: 1,850 children of UAE health care workers receive scholarships
Children of health care workers on the front line of the fight against coronavirus in the United Arab Emirates will have access to scholarships to ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: Should US schools reopen by summer? Trump suggests yes
President Donald Trump says states should “seriously consider” reopening their public schools before the end of the academic year, even though dozens ... Coronavirus -
Coronavirus: Photo of Saudi Arabian student highlights distance learning in action
An image of a Saudi Arabian boy studying via his laptop in a remote area has surfaced on Twitter, showing the Kingdom’s distance learning program in ... Gulf -
Coronavirus shuts schools in UAE, all you need to know about studying from home
The UAE Ministry of Education has announced its distance learning initiative, which aims to ensure children keep learning despite schools being shut ... Features -
Two high school classes quarantined over coronavirus in Switzerland
Two high school classes and their teachers have been quarantined in Switzerland after a student tested positive for the deadly new coronavirus, ... World News -
UAE halts school activities, closes nurseries to contain coronavirus outbreak
The United Arab Emirates suspended all school extracurricular activities until further notice, as part of the preventative measures to stop the spread ... Gulf -
Iran closes schools in two cities over coronavirus: Report
Iran will close schools, universities and educational centers in two central cities to prevent a deadly coronavirus outbreak spreading, state TV ... Middle East -
France to close two schools near ski resort after coronavirus cases
Two schools near a French ski resort where five Britons have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus will be shut next week as authorities try to ... World News -
Jet dumps fuel that lands on schoolkids near Los Angeles
An airliner with engine trouble dumped jet fuel that fell as a smelly mist on dozens of schoolchildren while the plane made an emergency return to Los ... World News -
Gunman went to class after shooting one near California school
A teenage gunman went back into his school classroom Tuesday after shooting a fellow student multiple times just outside a Northern California high ... World News -
College Board says it is replacing SAT ‘adversity score’
The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an ... Variety -
Class dismissed: Surge in arrests of foreign teachers in China
Arrests and deportations of foreign teachers in China have soared this year, lawyers, schools and teachers say, amid a broad crackdown defined by new ... Features -
France fries: Record heat hits tourists, schools, hospitals
Schools are spraying kids with water and nursing homes are equipping the elderly with hydration sensors as France battles a record-setting heat wave ... Healthy Living -
Principal accused of copying Kutcher speech is suspended
A West Virginia principal accused of plagiarizing Ashton Kutcher in an address to his school’s graduating class has been suspended without pay ... Variety -
Lebanon students get classes in surviving war and disasters
For students at Takmiliyat Al Kobba 2nd School in Tripoli in northern Lebanon, getting an education used to mean risking their lives in a hail of ... Features -
Two students open fire at Colorado school, wounding 8 schoolmates
Two students armed with guns burst into a Denver-area science and technology school and opened fire on Tuesday, wounding eight of their schoolmates ... World News -
Columbine massacre remembered, twenty years on
Dozens of people gathered for a vigil on the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, laying flowers at a memorial for the victims. ... Features -
Lebanese man dies after setting himself ablaze at school
A Lebanese man died from severe burns Friday after setting himself on fire at his daughter’s school over a fee dispute with the management, ... Middle East -
20 children injured in Chinese primary school attack
Twenty children were wounded in an attack at an elementary school in Beijing Tuesday with three suffering serious injuries, local authorities said.A ... World -
Five years on, massacre of schoolchildren continues to haunt Pakistan’s Peshawar
It’s been four years since seven gunmen launched a deadly attack on the Army Public School [APS] in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa city of ... Features -
Young philanthropist Maggie Doyne’s tryst with poor children in Nepal
The field of philanthropy, earlier associated primarily with rich retirees and big legacy foundations, has in recent decades been increasingly ... Features -
New curricula in Saudi schools to include philosophy, critical thinking
Saudi Education Minister Ahmed al-Issa has said that efforts are underway to redevelop the high school curricula and include new educational projects ... Gulf