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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/28/2022 11:17:40 PM
More than 1,200 Egyptian students have arrived in Poland and 250 others have reached Romania from Ukraine, Egypt’s Minister of Emigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram said on Monday.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
2/27/2022 10:39:47 AM
Thousands of young Arabs who took up studies in Ukraine, often fleeing violence back home, are appealing to be rescued from a new nightmare;Russia's full scale invasion of the country.
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World
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International
2/12/2022 1:47:31 PM
Japan is considering easing its stringent border controls amid growing criticism that the measures, which have banned most foreign entrants including students and business travelers, are hurting the country's economy and international profile.
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Egypt
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Politics
2/8/2022 7:28:25 PM
Egypt's parliament rejected on Tuesday a government-drafted legislative proposal aiming to impose an EGP 500-1,000 fine on the parents of students who are absent from school without a valid reason and within one week of being notified.
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World
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International
2/8/2022 9:49:01 AM
When the students were barred last month from entering their classrooms and told not to wear hijab, a headscarf used by Muslim women, they began camping outside the all-girls high school.
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Egypt
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Politics
1/31/2022 6:30:20 PM
The Egyptian parliament's education and scientific research committee rejected on Monday a government-drafted legislative proposal aiming to impose an EGP 1,000 fine on the parents of students who do not attend classes without a valid reason.
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World
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International
1/11/2022 2:59:02 PM
Students are poised to return to Chicago Public Schools after leaders of the teachers union approved a plan with the nation's third-largest district over COVID-19 safety protocols, ending a bitter standoff that canceled classes for five days.
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World
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Africa
1/10/2022 12:48:14 PM
Uganda ended the world's longest school closure on Monday, ordering millions of students back to the classroom nearly two years after learning was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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World
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Africa
1/9/2022 12:28:29 PM
Gunmen in northwest Nigeria's Kebbi state have freed 30 students and a teacher after seven months of captivity, according to a local official.
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World
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International
1/6/2022 8:17:57 PM
Thousands of Chicago students remained out of school for a second straight day Thursday after leaders of the nation's third-largest school district failed to resolve a deepening clash with the influential teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols.
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World
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Africa
1/2/2022 8:42:01 PM
Police in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have freed 21 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen on Friday, a spokesman said.
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World
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International
1/1/2022 3:14:49 PM
With COVID-19 cases surging just as students are about to return from winter break, dozens of U.S. colleges are moving classes online again for at least the first week or so of the semester, and some warn it could stretch longer if the wave of infection doesn't subside soon.
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Egypt
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Society
12/28/2021 6:56:50 PM
In a stormy session on Tuesday, Egyptian MPs slammed Minister of Education Tarek Shakwi, accusing him of failing to solve the chronic problems of schools. MPs complained that Shawki's bizarre policies have made school curricula difficult for students to understand.
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Egypt
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Society
12/14/2021 6:50:15 PM
A group of Egyptian students in Canada has raised $80,000 (EGP 1 million) in three weeks for Egypt’s Decent Life presidential initiative, the Egyptian Ministry of Emigration said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/13/2021 8:32:23 PM
Former students and faculty members from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music arrived with their families Monday in Portugal, where they are being granted asylum and where they hope to rebuild their acclaimed school.
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Egypt
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Health
12/8/2021 10:53:01 PM
Students who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus will not be denied access to schools, Egypt's Ministry of Education said on Wednesday, stressing that “no directive have been issued in this regard.”
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Egypt
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Society
12/7/2021 9:24:51 PM
Egypt's government has approved a set of amendments to the country's education law whereby parents of truant students at mandatory school age could be denied public services, a cabinet statement announced following a meeting on Tuesday.
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Business
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Economy
12/7/2021 3:12:23 PM
The current generation of students risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings –about 14 percent of the global GDP at the present value – as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its related school closures, a new report published on Monday by the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF estimated.
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Egypt
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Society
12/7/2021 12:45:37 PM
Egypt’s Education Minister Tarek Shawki said that a new bifurcated education system will be applied for high school students as of the next academic year, a step that aims to improve the pre-university stage of education.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
11/15/2021 12:05:16 PM
Egyptian theatre professor and actor Mahmoud El-Lozy passed away early Monday at the age of 63, leaving hundreds of colleagues and students in grief.
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