A lecture hall at Leipzig University. Photo: DPA Published: 09 Sep 2016 Sick of the expense of studying in the UK, the USA or Canada? Germany offers an affordable and highly esteemed alternative, argues Melissa Lawrence. Nine life-saving tips for foreign students in Germany (03 Aug 16) German unis offer […]
BUSINESS SCHOOL University of St Gallen tops FT 2016 masters in management rankings By Laurent Ortmans, Financial Times SEP 12, 2016 – 08:25 A management symposium at St Gallen (Keystone) The University of St Gallen’s domination of the Financial Times’ ranking of masters in management courses continues for another year. […]
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
Ben Moshinsky Aug. 21, 2016, 10:30 AM AP If you want a university degree that boosts your earning power, go and study in Switzerland. Swiss universities occupy the top four spots of Emolument.com‘s table of European colleges with the highest earning graduates. The University of St. Gallen, known for its […]
File photo: C Carlstead Geneva advises teachers on religion in school Published: 24 Aug 2016 12:03 GMT+02:00 As children start the new school year, the secular canton of Geneva has issued guidelines for teachers on how to deal with religious issues in the classroom. Italian ‘ignored’ by Swiss schools in […]
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent 8 June 2012 From the section Business Image caption Dr Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani says Qatar is making a strategic decision to spend oil income on education Global education When oil rich countries get involved in global education projects, it is easy to […]
By COLLIN BINKLEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — May 24, 2016 Colleges in the U.S. are opening their doors — and their financial aid — to Syrian refugees. Over the past year, at least a dozen schools have promised to cover full or partial tuition for Syrian refugees who are accepted […]
Nadeem Hanif May 15, 2016 DUBAI // Integrating Arabic and Islamic Studies into the wider curriculum will be the focus of a new school that will open this summer. The Next Generation School will open its doors to children for the next academic year and promises to develop both […]
Despite the strong showing, ETH Zurich was down four places on last years result. Photo: Ed Seymour ETH Zurich rides high in key uni reputation poll Published: 06 May 2016 11:51 GMT+02:00 Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich is the highest rated university in continental Europe, a prestigious new survey […]
Source: Time Hannah Beech / Shanghai Anti-Western rhetoric heats up amid a climate of ideological tightening A Japanese child exemplifies honesty. A Russian one acts as a great friend. These […]
The ancient al-Qarawiyyin Library in Fez, founded in 859 by a woman, is the oldest working library in the world, holding ancient manuscripts that date as far back as 12 centuries and will reopen in May after a major renovation. World Bulletin / News Desk The Moroccan Ministry of Culture […]
Apr 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ishac Diwan Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores. This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, […]
February 2016 REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) The Promised Messiahas & Imam Mahdi (Guided One) Founder of THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas How to properly raise children is a perennial question and concern for mothers and fathers everywhere. […]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Al-Azhar” redirects here. For other uses, see Al-Azhar (disambiguation). Al-Azhar University جامعة الأزهر (الشريف) Jāmiʻat al-Azhar (al-Sharīf) Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo Egypt Type Public […]
Source: The New York Times As a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl growing up in Connecticut, Zareen Jaffery used to devour novels by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, hoping those stories […]
Can Syria be put back together again? Soon life after Isis will have to be contemplated here Robert Fisk @indyvoices It is about 18 months since Isis took control of Raqqa, imposing its strict rules on citizens. Now the group Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered is fighting back against its […]
AMANDA MACHADO DEC 1, 2014 EDUCATION When I turned 15, my parents sent me alone on a one-month trip to Ecuador, the country where my father was born. This was tradition in our family—for my parents to send their first-generation American kids to the country of their heritage, where we […]
ARAB NEWS Published — Monday 8 February 2016 MADINAH: A member of the Senior Scholars Council, Dr. Abdullah Al-Manieh, has called for the establishment of women’s departments at the Islamic University in Madinah in line with other universities in the Kingdom. “The Muslim woman has had her own status and […]
Feb 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – GORDON BROWN Buried in the declaration from the just-completed fourth United Nations’ Syria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicised but important promise: by next year, every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place in school. The world, at long last, has […]
Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh By “lost generation” I am not referring to Gertrude Stein’s famous description of the generation that grew up during and after World War I in America and Europe. I am borrowing the term to describe the current, sad, state of our young […]
