Arab education 'falling behind'
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The World Bank says education in the Arab world lags behind other regions and needs urgent reform.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker examines new figures which show a dramatic decline in the number of adult learners.
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Aid will go towards free schooling and the fight against Aids - but aid groups say it is less than was promised two years ago.
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The reading skills of Japanese 15-year-olds have plummeted over the past few years, leaving Japan lagging behind 13 other countries, a survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.
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Government education policies are failing to remedy the shortage of skilled workers, a business chief is to say.
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The number of students accepted by UK universities is down by 3.7% compared with this time last year.
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Urgent action needs taking to tackle the lower attainment of ethnic minority university students, a report says.
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The number of children in England taking foreign languages at school has fallen, inspectors find.
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A record number of students have passed their A-levels this year with nearly a quarter of students getting an A-grade. Are standards going up or down?
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Large percentages of high school seniors are posting weak scores on national math and reading tests even though more of them are taking challenging courses and getting higher grades in school, say two new government reports released Thursday.
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A survey of academics suggests many believe university standards have been 'dumbed down' due to funding shortages.
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Japanese high school students have slipped in the latest international ranking of reading and mathematics skills by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
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The report says students are catching up to their worldwide counterparts but fourth-graders are not. By Michael Dobbs / Washington Post.
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The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war
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Companies around the world are falling behind in the fight against AIDS, leaving a "black hole" in education and healthcare, experts said on Thursday.
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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American eighth-grade students have made gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.