Bahrain’s education minister substituted for a teacher by starting the lesson when the teacher was late to school. Making an unannounced visit to a boys’ intermediate school on Tuesday, Majid Al Nuaimi found students sitting in a classroom waiting for their teacher who was reportedly late. The minister started the first period lesson until...
Read more »
Turkey has signed an $11 billion build-operate-transfer deal with a consortium of six construction companies to carry out the country’s largest highway project. The highway will reduce travel time between Istanbul and İzmir from six hours and a half to about three hours when it is completed in 2017, Daily News and Economic Review...
Read more »
Banat Al Riyadh (Girls of Riyadh), a novel written in the form of e-mails about the personal lives of four young Saudi girls, has encouraged a whole generation of people to take up reading, publishers have said. “We have noted that young boys and girls in their pre-teen or early teen years have read...
Read more »
Kuwait’s education minister has defended a controversial decision to extend the school day, saying that it was made after an extensive study. Moodhi Al Humood came under fire from the Teachers’ Society after she went ahead with a decision to extend the regular school day by 25 to 35 minutes, to be added to...
Read more »
Iran’s foreign minister said that he would be “delighted” to attend an international security conference to be held in Bahrain in December. The Manama Dialogue, co-organised by Bahrain’s foreign ministry and the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), brings together senior political and security officials from several countries, including the US, Britain and...
Read more »
Germany will focus on boosting cooperation in education and research with Qatar, the country’s ambassador in Doha has said. “New areas of cooperation will centre on higher education. We will be focusing on research activities,” Anne Ruth Herkes said. “One of the major areas of research will be alternative energy. We will also be...
Read more »
