LONDON : 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. The blaze was the second suspicious fire at an Islamic institution in London following the brutal May 22 ...

KARACHI- A syndicate meeting of the Karachi University (KU) has decided that it would setup its own school, and rejected the proposal ofPak-TurkSchoolto establish a school on the premises of the University. The meeting held on Saturday under the chair of KU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Muhammad ...

NORWICH (Metro): A school has banned giving students any homework. The Jane Austen Academy in Norwich will have longer school days instead, lasting until 5pm. The school for 11 to 18-year-olds is set to open in September 2014, and wants to give its 1,100 students more free time to spend with their ...

KABUL  - A suicide bomb attack, targeting US and Afghan forces, killed two NATO soldiers and a policeman in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the international coalition said, adding 10 schoolchildren also died in the blast as they were returning home from class.The police chief of Paktia ...

noorpur thalDO Education Mehr Muhammad Ashraf Japa along with DDO Education Muhammad Yasin Dhilwana paid a surprise visit to Government Elementary School Chak-52/DB here the other day. The DO checked the students’ class work and appreciated the teaching staff. He also lauded the best efforts ...

LONDON [DS]:Will Smith and his son Jaden made a surprise appearance at London City hall on Friday. The pair turned up to back Boris Johnson’s Leadership Clubs programme, which offers extra-curricular activities for 10 to 14-year-olds.They give a talk about staying out of trouble and ...

The Aiwan-i-Karkunan Tehrik-i-Pakistan will launch Ideological Summer School from June 8 to July 9. The motto of the school is ‘Love Pakistan’. TheNation Editor-in-Chief and Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman Majid Nizami is founder of the school while NPT Vice Chairman Dr Rafique Ahmad ...

Sixteen children and a teacher were killed when their school van caught fire in Gujrat on Saturday, police said.Seven other children were injured in the blaze which destroyed the vehicle.The van was carrying 24 children to a private school in Gujrat, about 112 kilometres (70 miles) north of the ...

PANGASINAN: A high school senior in the Philippines is drawing attention for his unusual name, which includes 40 first names and a surname. The latest senior to enroll at Urdaneta City National High School in Pangasinan is a 15-year-old student named Ratziel Timshel Ismail Zerubbabel Zabud Zimry ...

WARBURTON All the institution heads should be committed for compliance with Chief Minister School Reform Roadmap (CMSRR), said EDO Education Muhammad Ghiaz in a joint meeting held here the other day. Reportedly, Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association, Headmistresses Association, Punjab ...

WARBURTON - All the institution heads should be committed for compliance with Chief Minister School Reform Roadmap (CMSRR), said EDO Education Muhammad Ghiaz in a joint meeting held here the other day. Reportedly, Secondary Schools Headmasters’ Association, Headmistresses Association, Punjab ...

KHYBER AGENCY  :  A bid to blow up a state-run primary school was foiled by defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown militants on Sunday here in Shakas area of tehsil Jamrud, sub-division of Khyber Agency. The sources said that on the information of local ...

SHANGHAI: Movie star Jet Li has joined up with renowned Chinese Internet entrepreneur Jack Ma to open a t’ai chi school in a bid to promote the traditional exercise. Ma is founder of the world’s biggest online retailer, Alibaba, where he stepped down as chief executive officer last week ...

LAHORE -A 5-member delegation of the British Council led by its UK based Chief Executive Martin Davidson on Monday visited a low-cost girl’s private school affiliated with the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) under its Foundation Assisted School (FAS) program in Baghbanpura. The purpose of ...

WASHINGTON: Students at a US school got a pleasant surprise when they were given a day off to enjoy the warm weather. While school children in the UK may get the odd day off a year for snow, Bellingham Christian School in Washington state decided to do the opposite. ‘school cancelled due to ...

LAHORE/KARACHI/QUETTA - All public and private schools, colleges in Sindh and Punjab will remain closed for five days from May 8 to 13 due to general elections in the country. Three holidays — May 9 to 11 — have been announced in Balochistan. In two separate notifications issued here on ...

MALAKAND - Junaid Iqbal - Dwellers of the area on Tuesday demanded the high-ups of the Education Department to appoint a science teacher in the Government Girls High School Malakand. They said that the Education Department transferred the lonely female science teacher of the school to the ...

NEW YORK: Students at one ofAmerica’s most prestigious schools were abused by paedophile teachers for more than three decades but prosecutors are unable to file charges because the crimes happened too long ago, officials inNew Yorkhave said. The Bronx District Attorney’s Office said in ...

LAHORE - The reunion dinner of old students of Cathedral School, Hall Road Lahore, who have passed out till the year 2005, will be held at the school premises on Saturday (today). The old students can also bring their spouses to the dinner with the function starting at 06:30 p.m. The ...

Peshawar -  Two explosions took place in Hangu and Kohat whereas two other bombs were defused in Bannu and Charsadda districts on Friday. In Hangu’s Muhammad Khawaja area, militants blew up a government high school, partially damaging the structure, local political administration sources ...

COPENHAGEN Metro  - Danish students will be given the building blocks for a bright future when the world’s first ‘Lego school’ opens its doors later this year. The International School of Billund will provide high-quality academic programmes for students aged three to 16 from ...

MOTHESE schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run ...

Sardar AhmadAt a school in a bombed-out Afghan village near Kabul, Angelina Jolie is known as an aid worker or engineer - never as one of the world's most famous film stars.Jolie, a special envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, built the school in Qala-i-Gudar last year and is planning to ...

KHYBER AGENCY - Another government primary school for boys was razed to the ground in a bomb blast in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Saturday, official and local sources said. Luckily no casualty was reported as no one present at the school at the time of the blast, sources said, adding the ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The EDO (Education) has suspended registration of Allama Iqbal Girls Higher Secondary School Chak 288/JB on the charge of corporal punishment to students.Talking to media, EDO Syed Toqeer Hussain said that he received complaints from Hasan Ali and other parents of girl students, ...

PEHSAWAR - A primary school for boys and girls has been constructed with the financial assistance of the Japanese government in a village Kadam, Khyber Agency. The honorary Consul General of Japan in Peshawar Nawabzada Fazal Karim Afridi formally inaugurated the school in a ceremony held at the ...

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTNEW YORK - A fund set up by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, plans to send 40 girls to school in Swat, her home region, with the support of top Hollywood star Angelina Jolie.Malala, 15, was shot in the head by the Taliban in October in Swat, announced the ...

It is clear that Sind caretaker cabinet is not neutral, as some people with known political affiliation have been included. There are at least two nominees from two different political parties, they have been recommended by the same greedy political figures who sold their soul to the devil for ...

RAWALPINDI - A 7-year-old child was allegedly molested by a school watchman in Mughalabad, the limits of Police Station (PS) RA Bazaar.Police filed case against the accused, who managed to escape after committing crime, and started investigation. Police informed that a man namely Shahid, deployed ...

A fire blamed on an electrical fault killed 13 teenage boys at a Muslim school in Myanmar's main city Tuesday, police and witnesses said, raising fears of a further eruption of tensions after a wave of religious unrest.Police and soldiers flanked the scorched blue mosque and religious school in ...