The New Zealand government has launched a publicity campaign to educate parents about the new national standards, saying people are confused about the changes. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has written to 350,000 homes as part of a 200,000 NZ d

Charles Kao on Friday donated his Nobel Prize medal to the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during his first trip to the city, where he lived for nearly 30 years, after winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. Kao, internationally renowned as t

2009 Nobel laureate Charles Kao, together with his Nobel colleagues Yang chen-ning and James Mirrlees, officiated the opening of an exhibition to showcase Kao' s lifetime achievement in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Friday. The exhibi

The Wu Yee Sun Charitable Foundation Ltd. Tuesday made a donation of 150 million HK dollars (19.3 million U.S. dollars) to the University of Macao Development Foundation (UMDF), which was the largest single benefaction since UMDF's inception in Decem

South Korea has postponed this year' s nationwide college entrance exam by one week due to its coinciding schedule with the G20 summit to be held in November in Seoul, the education ministry said Friday. The ministry said the decision to push back th

Chinese authorities will standardize all the primary school buses to ensure safety of pupils when they commute between home and school. The school buses refer to those that are able to carry more than 10 children. The set of standards, the first of i

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Friday bade farewell to renowned educationist Huo Maozheng, who died of illness on Feb. 11 at the age of 88, at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. State Councilor Liu Yandong joined Premier Wen at the funeral.

The Swedish government said on Friday that it plans to introduce tuition fees for some foreign students starting from autumn term of 2011. It said in a bill sent to the parliament that the fees will apply to students from countries outside the Europe