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Kazakhstan Agency for Religion comments hijabs at schools
Kazakhstan Agency for Religious Affairs has commented the ban on wearing hijabs at schools.
14 October 2013
Malala calls on world to make education top priority
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist who has become a world champion of girls' rights, called Friday for the World Bank to make education its top priority.
12 October 2013
Malala, Congolese doctor among Nobel Peace favourites
Teenage Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and a Congolese doctor dedicated to helping rape victims are the two most-hyped figures among pundits ahead of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement.
10 October 2013
World-level tourism training center to open in Almaty
The center will be supported by the World Tourism Organization and will have world-level tourism training experts.
09 October 2013
Kazakhstan Defense Ministry selects candidates for education in US universities
Kazakhstan Defense Ministry is staring to select candidates for education in US military universities in 2014.
08 October 2013
Two Kazakhstan citizens enter US universities
Two Kazakhstan citizens, Ilias Kameledinov and Abylai Akhmetov, have been enrolled in military universities of the US Armed Forces.
08 October 2013
In Malala's home, schoolgirls pray for her Nobel in secret
In Malala Yousufzai's home town in Pakistan, schoolfriends hope to see her win the Nobel Peace Prize this week -- but they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist.
07 October 2013
Chile group wants Pinochet 'dictatorship' in textbooks
A Chilean education advisory group recommended Friday that schools use "dictatorship" rather than "military regime" in textbooks to describe General Augusto Pinochet's rule marred by rights abuses.
07 October 2013
Nigeria school attacks force thousands to quit studies: Amnesty
Schools attacks in northern Nigeria have grown more frequent and deadly this year, forcing thousands to abandon their education, with most of the violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists.
04 October 2013
In Aleppo, schools reopen despite war
In Syria's war-ravaged city of Aleppo, Abu Hussein hurries along little Ali, who has stopped just a few steps from school to buy a bag of potato chips.
02 October 2013
Send books not guns, Malala pleads at UN
With a maturity and poise that belied her tender years, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls' education stood by world leaders on Wednesday and called for books not guns.
27 September 2013
9 Kazakhstan universities enter world ranking
9 Kazakhstan universities have been included in the list of 800 best universities of the world by British Quacquarelli Symonds.
22 September 2013
French Sorbonne opens branch in Almaty
Starting from 2014 Kazakhstan students will able to study in French Sorbonne university without leaving Almaty.
18 September 2013
China promises 30 thousand scholarships to SCO countries
China will provide 30 thousand government-sponsored education scholarships to the member-countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
09 September 2013
Striking teachers block road to Mexico City airport
Teachers protesting education reform blocked the main road to Mexico City's international airport on Thursday, forcing travelers to hitch rides in police trucks or walk long distances to their terminals.
06 September 2013
Fashion Institute starts up in Almaty
The official start-up of Kazakhstan's fashion education project -- Kazakhstan Fashion Institute (KFI) -- was held in Almaty.
06 September 2013
Outrage in Indonesia over school's genitalia survey
Indonesia's education ministry Thursday strongly criticised officials in a small town in Aceh province for asking children to assess the size of their private parts in a graphic school survey.
06 September 2013
Only 3 percent of Kazakhstan's imams have higher theological education
Only 3 percent of Kazakhstan’s imams have higher theological education, 30 percent graduated from special educational institutions and the rest of them only took 3 or 6-month clergy courses.
06 September 2013
Professors won't be fired: Governor
Akim of Mangistau oblast has commented the firing of 81 professors from Yessenov Caspian State University of Technologies and Engineering in Aktau.
04 September 2013
New Kazakhstan Minister of Education and Science appointed
Aslan Sarinzhipov has been appointed new Kazakhstan Minister of Education and Science.
02 September 2013