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KUWAIT: After rumors that the Ministry of Education was to make music classes compulsory in schools, with pupils' marks to form part of their overall grade average, some Islamist MPs protested, even threatening the premier with grilling if he failed to halt this move.

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Teachers' Association (KTA) is considering taking industrial action and, if this fails, possible legal action against the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Deputy Education Minister Tamadher Al-Sdairawi over the non-payment of previously agreed allowances to teachers

WASHINGTON: In a policy shift, the Obama administration said it is prepared to hold direct talks with North Korea in a bid to bring Pyongyang back to six-nation nuclear disarmament negotiations.

KUWAIT: Despite the heated debate about whether to start the school year according to the previously agreed schedule or to delay it until extensive measures have been taken to deal with the global H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic

KUWAIT: In the midst of the turmoil regarding the delay of the start of the school year, information revealed that thousands of teachers will start the school year after enrolling in training courses provided by the Ministry of Health.

KUWAIT: MPs stepped up pressure on the government yesterday to delay reopening schools or at least part of them after the health ministry announced that a 17-year-old Kuwaiti teenager became the third casualty of swine flu. The ministry of health said the boy died because he was suffering

7.24.09 - JERUSALEM: The Israeli government will remove references to what the Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the country's education minister said yesterday.

KUWAIT: A Ministry of Education (MoE) committee formed to look into the suspension of the accreditation of a number of Indian and Filipino universities has reportedly

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education will reconsider the decision pertinent to grading private schools into two categories A and B.

KUWAIT: A symposium was held for students at the Salah Aldeen Secondary School for boys in Zahra area yesterday. It...