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VietNamNet Bridge – The demand for human resources has put heavy pressure on the university system. Vietnam needs to have more universities, according to Tran Thi Ha, Head of the University Education Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

Scottish ministers are to examine the effectiveness of a scheme to make it easier for older teachers to retire early amid fears too many school staff are “burnt out” and underperforming in Scottish classrooms.

The chilling notes show how school leaders scrambled, sometimes amid confusing circumstances, to handle the emerging reality of the April 16, 2007, campus massacre that left 32 people and the shooter dead.

Australia's obesity epidemic is being blamed for a sharp rise in the number of boys and men developing anorexia as more teens get bullied for being overweight and become confused about healthy food guidelines, say eating disorders experts.

Critics decry end of Florida's high school steroid testing
With an aim toward knocking impressionable youths off the tainted path of professional stars unmasked as steroid cheats, Florida lawmakers spent $100,000 last year to conduct random steroid testing on athletes at the high school level.

Oli de Botton: Structure doesn't matter as much as we think: the quality of our schools is only as good as the quality of our teachers
What matters most in a school is how many good teachers you have and how long they stay for. Policy-makers and politicians, however, do not seem to take much notice of this. Statistics released last Friday by the General Teaching Council showing that about a third of newly qualified teachers leave the profession within a year, were barely reported or commented on. Instead the education establishment still seems obsessed with either academies or the marking (or not marking) of tests. Neither of those things have any impact on whether we can get enough good teachers to stay in the classroom.

A Ministry of Education (MoE) official claimed on Tuesday that most of the Kuwaiti candidates referred to the ministry by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) are surplus to the ministry's requirements and don't even meet its employment criteria.

Every primary school pupil in England could receive free school meals under a scheme set to form a central plank of Labour's election manifesto.

Five volunteers from the U.S. military are enrolled in an intense, four-month course to learn one of the world's most in-demand foreign languages

Five volunteers from the U.S. military are enrolled in an intense, four-month course to learn one of the world's most in-demand foreign languages

State officials have raised doubts about the Dallas school district's plan to erase a substantial chunk of its $84 million budget deficit by shifting the salaries of 300 teachers to a federal grant program.

Balls announces parents' panels to handle grievances; schools to be compelled to keep records of bullying

Russia to ban the Simpsons

The Kremlin was accused of a return to Soviet-style indoctrination after Russia moved to ban American cartoons and replace them with programmes teaching children to be patriotic.

Hundreds of children are still being treated on adult mental health wards, two years after the practice was condemned as a "national scandal".

Austin campus has been rated 'academically unacceptable' by the state since 2006 because of dropout rates and passing rates on state tests