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Spanish regions take steps to help needy children
To help children plunged into poverty by Spain's grinding recession, several regional governments have stepped up aid programmes for needy students.
07 June 2013
Anxiety over student loans as US lawmakers play politics
Recent Northeastern University graduate Greg Dube hopes to launch a bright engineering career soon, but like many young Americans, he is haunted by a looming financial burden: some $150,000 in student loan debt.
07 June 2013
Vocational training centers to be created with major chemical projects in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Prime-Minister Serik Akhmetov instructed to create vocational training centers as part of major chemical projects.
04 June 2013
Kazakhstan students to study in Latvian aviation university
Kazakhstan young people will offered an opportunity to study in Riga Aviation University: President Nazarbayev.
04 June 2013
Kazakhstan Education Ministry announces list of foreign grants for Kazakhstan citizens
Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science made a list of countries with universities providing quotas for Kazakhstan citizens.
30 May 2013
Youth in crisis-hit Spain becoming a 'lost generation'
Despite having a bachelor's degree, five years of professional experience and speaking three languages, Paloma Fernandez has joined the swelling ranks of Spain's "lost generation" that can't find work in a grinding recession.
28 May 2013
Kazakhstan Maritime Academy opens in Almaty
The official opening of Kazakhstan Maritime Academy was held in Almaty.
27 May 2013
Nazarbayev suggests transferring public universities to foreign management
Nazarbayev suggests to transfer some of Kazakhstan's public universities to foreign corporations and national companies for management.
22 May 2013
School in South Kazakhstan has 22 twins studying
22 twins go to Baitursynov school No.83 in South-Kazakhstan oblast.
15 May 2013
Oxford University sets up Thatcher scholarship
Britain's famous Oxford University is to honour former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died last month, with a £100 million ($153 million, 118 million euros) scholarship trust for "future leaders".
14 May 2013
Two teens take lives over unfinished homework: media
Two teens in eastern China committed suicide after "failing to complete homework assignments" state-run media said on Friday, in an extreme case highlighting the immense pressure schoolchildren can face.
04 May 2013
37 million Euro spent on Tempus program in Kazakhstan
A plenary meeting of the consortium of Tempus European project was held in Almaty on April 4-5.
11 April 2013
Foreign military attaches visit Zhas Ulan military school in Astana
Representatives of the military-diplomatic corps accredited in Kazakhstan visited the General Sagadat Nurmagambetov Zhas Ulan state school in Astana.
29 March 2013
Kazakhstan needs new military education system
Kazakhstan army has three major problems that need to by resolves through improvement of equipment, management and military education.
29 March 2013
Over 1 thousand Bolashak scholarships allotted for 2013
A meeting of the state commission on personnel education abroad was held today under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan Secretary of State Marat Tazhin.
28 March 2013
Facebook chief Zuckerberg tackling politics: report
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is helping form a group to lobby for US political reform in areas such as education and immigration policy.
27 March 2013
Kazakhstan Education Minister about opponents to university cuts in parliament and government
There are people lobbying for Kazakhstan universities among deputies and government members: Kazakhstan Minister.
26 March 2013
Kazakhstan to leave only 100 universities in 2 years
We plan to slash the number of private universities from 66 to 30 in the nearest three years: Education Minister.
26 March 2013
New Zealand bans foreign students from prostitution
International students studying in New Zealand, where prostitution is legal, have been told they are to be barred from working in the sex trade.
26 March 2013
First European Forum of Kazakhstan Youth to be held in Poland
The forum will step up integration of Kazakhstan youth in Europe and discuss conditions and quality of education in European countries.
24 March 2013