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VietNamNet Bridge – Tran Thi Ha, Director of the Higher Education Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), talks about joint-training programmes between domestic universities and foreign partners.

Francis Gilbert: Andrew Widdowson's refusal to allow his son to be punished in an 'isolation room' has rightly focused the public's mind on this issue. From the description he gives, it sounds like a place where it is very difficult to work; there is no natural light and visibility is poor, while children have their backs to a supervising teacher in partitioned cubicles.

Cricket can help curb bad behaviour in schools and improve concentration in the classroom, researchers say.

National tests for 14-year-olds are scrapped in the wake of this summer's Sats marking "shambles". Children's Secretary Ed Balls said an expert group would develop a system of assessment by teachers.

RIYADH: The Ministry of Higher Education has selected all the students who applied for and fulfilled the stipulated conditions for the King Abdullah Foreign Scholarship Program.

JEDDAH: As many as 50 secondary schools in different parts of the Kingdom have been selected to implement King Abdullah Project for General Education Development (Tatwir), which is expected to bring...

VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has been complaining that it is seriously lacking teachers, while pedagogical university graduates have been complaining that they cannot find jobs.

Parents and teachers at nearby primary oppose merger with threatened school. Julie Bindel reports

Fraudulent applications for school entry are rising sharply as parents lie about where they live to secure their child's place at a 'good' school. Jessica Shepherd reports

Only 12,000 pupils started diploma qualification this September, schools secretary confirms. Schools secretary and schools minister reveal plans to develop the new qualifications and reject claims that the academies programme will lose momentum

The scale of the delays affecting England's school rebuilding project is revealed by a parliamentary question. Some 24 of 38 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects are delayed, data from a parliamentary answer reveals.

A shortage of governors means that there are 40,000 unfilled places on the bodies that run schools in England. Research from the University of Bath says that 45% of schools struggle to find suitably qualified governors.

Pupils with learning disabilities would like safe areas in school to counter their vulnerability between lessons and at break times, a report has said. Often problems could be avoided if the young people were consulted - boosting their skills and self-confidence.

A Saudi university is luring western academics, writes David Cohen. WITH a year still to go before their new institution opens its doors for business, education planners in Saudi Arabia already have reason to offer a non-alcoholic toast to their success in laying the foundations for what is destined to be among the world's richest universities.

Julia Gillard tells Dan Harrison of her plan to introduce report cards on schools. EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard has sought to allay fears of a wholesale adoption of the controversial "New York model" of schooling as its creator prepares to visit Australia next month.