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Harry Potter to speak Kazakhsha in 2014
The Harry Potter series will be translated into Kazakh in 2014.
08 December 2013
One year on, Newtown voices revive pain of massacre
One year after a gunman burst into a US school and slaughtered 20 small children and six adults, the voices of their trapped and terrified protectors returned Wednesday to haunt survivors.
05 December 2013
700 children skip school to harvest cotton in southern Kazakhstan, principals fined
700 school children were skipping their classes at school because they were harvesting cotton in South Kazakhstan Oblast.
02 December 2013
Global gangs target Australian pupils as drug mules
Australian authorities on Monday warned that high school students were being recruited by international drug syndicates to help them bring illicit substances into the country.
25 November 2013
Two dead, two injured in US school shooting
A teenager opened fire at a school in the US state of Nevada Monday, killing a teacher and critically wounding two students.
22 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
Former student of Almaty mosque denied persecution of imams
The former student of the Central Mosque of Almaty accusing imams of sexual harassment has been denied persecution of her religious teachers.
19 September 2013
Japanese sports teacher beats boy in YouTube video
A video showing a volleyball coach repeatedly slapping a schoolboy -- just days after Tokyo was awarded the 2020 Olympics -- is the latest example of brutality to tarnish Japanese sport.
18 September 2013
Clash of the mini-titans at China school of rock
With neat ponytails and immaculate grades, the four eight-year-olds who bounded on stage would make any Chinese parent proud.
25 August 2013
California to recognize transgender pupil preferences
Transgender students in California public schools will be able to choose which bathrooms to use and which sex-segregated sports to play.
13 August 2013
265 thousand first graders to hit schools September 1 in Kazakhstan
More than 260 thousand children will go to the 1st grade at schools throughout Kazakhstan on September 1, 2013.
08 August 2013
Senior Scottish Catholic sorry over sex claims
A senior Scottish bishop on Sunday apologised on behalf of the Catholic church over claims of physical and sexual abuse at one of the country's best known boarding schools.
05 August 2013
Scottish Police probe claims of abuse at Catholic school
Scottish police on Monday confirmed they were investigating claims of physical and sexual abuse at one of Scotland's best known Catholic boarding schools.
30 July 2013
Kazakhstan designer impresses Japanese fashion maitre
Olga Stanishevskaya, designer from Aktau, Kazakhstan, has received a scholarship of the Japanese fashion maitre Shingo Sato's school in Milan, Italy.
29 July 2013
Nigerian state orders schools to close after massacre
Nigeria's northeastern Yobe state on Sunday ordered the closure of all secondary schools after a massacre that saw suspected Islamist extremists kill 42 people in a gun and bomb attack on a boarding school.
08 July 2013
Swimming lessons may become part of school curriculum in Kazakhstan
The Kazakhstan government is considering including swimming lessons into the school curriculum.
20 June 2013
Four arrested over blaze at London Islamic school
Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a fire at an Islamic boarding school in London, police said Monday, as they stepped up patrols around Muslim sites in the capital.
11 June 2013
US man held for China French school sex abuse: police
An American teacher at a top French school in Shanghai has been detained on suspicion of child molestation, local police said, confirming reports from school officials and parents.
07 June 2013
Australian prime minister dodges another sandwich
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was forced to dodge a flying sandwich for the second time this month Thursday when someone's salami lunch was flung at her during a school visit.
30 May 2013