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Bahrain celebrates 90th anniversary of public education

Bahrain celebrates 90 years of formal education, having been the first in the Gulf to establish a public education system in 1919 this month. To coincide with National Day and the second occasion of Bahrain Women’s Day this December also marks the 81st anniversary of opening public education to women in December 1928, another first [...]

Universities ban is lifted

A BAN on four private universities by the High Education Council has been lifted after they met demands over administrative and academic standards.
The Kingdom University, Applied Sciences University, Bahrain University College and Birla Institute of Technology International Centre have been allowed by the council to resume accepting new students.
However, the business management programmes at [...]

Bahrain’s women work to win more parliamentary seats

Just eight women ran in Bahrain’s first general election in 2002, with the number increasing to 18 four years later. Despite a handful of close races in 2006, only one woman managed to secure a seat in the country’s fledgling parliament, after she ran unopposed.

But if May al Otaibi and others have anything to do with it, female candidates will have a good chance during Bahrain’s next general election slated for November 2010.

Education: New university combats entrenched attitudes

At Bahrain Polytechnic, a lecturer displays a controversial Ralph Lauren advertisement, in which a model’s waist appears smaller than her head and asks students how they would avoid a similar marketing debacle.
For further education in the Arab world, this is a fresh approach. Formal lectures and rote learning are the dominant teaching methods in public [...]

Aiming for Top of the Class

Bahrain has embarked on major educational reform, tailoring the system to meet the needs of the Kingdom’s people and the nation’s economy, seeking to learn from past mistakes and the success of others.
The Kingdom has placed great importance on developing a knowledge-based economy, with education being one of the cornerstones of Vision 2030, the long-term [...]

Schools blow

THOUSANDS of children went back to school yesterday – only for many to be told to go home again for another week.
The government “strongly advised” private schools at a meeting yesterday to postpone reopening for further week, to build in an incubation buffer for any potential swine flu cases.
The call came at a meeting [...]

Flu Battle Stepped Up

Bahrain stepped up its swine flu defences yesterday, with schools reopening only to close again and a ban on pupils returning to classes within a week of travelling from abroad.
The government also approved a BD5.5 million cash injection to buy vaccines for the H1N1 virus.
It was approved by the Cabinet, chaired by Deputy Premier Shaikh [...]

Bahrain wakes up to reality of education standards

Bahrain is set to introduce sweeping education reforms to bring its standards on a par with the international norms. This follows the submission earlier this week of recommendation by the government-appointed Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training.
Come to think fo it, how many countries in the world, much less the Third World, would go [...]

Black mark for ‘failing’ schools

SEVERAL Bahrain schools and universities are failing their students, according to a government-approved report. Out of 20 public and private institutions reviewed, three were deemed “inadequate”, 13 “satisfactory” and four “good”, while none achieved the highest level possible. Two out of four higher education courses analysed also received “no confidence” judgements, with the other [...]

Bahrain private schools free to start term before Eid

Bahrain’s private schools have been given clearance by the Ministry of Education to control the start and finish of their academic year.
Parents urged the ministry to force private schools to start their new term after Eid, following a decision by education authorities to change the calendar of government schools.
But, a ministry spokesperson said the academic [...]

Teacher denies attack on pupil

A teacher appeared in court yesterday accused of beating a 10-year-old pupil about the head and body with a wooden cane.
The boy suffered multiple cuts and bruises in the classroom attack, the Lower Criminal Court heard.
The Bahraini defendant allegedly attacked the boy after refusing his repeated requests to go to the toilet during an [...]

Fake degrees clampdown

10 people from Bahrain appeared on a US government watch list accused of buying counterfeit college and university degrees on Saturday.

Schools face quality test

Every school in Bahrain is to be inspected as part of a new scheme to raise standards to international levels, officials have confirmed.
Experts from the UK have been drafted in to help set up the School Review Unit (SRU) and train local staff to carry out evaluations.
The initiative is part of the National Education Reforms [...]

Shorter Ramadan school hours call

Ramadan hours for government employees and schools could be cut by almost half from next year if an MP’s proposal wins support.Al Menbar Bloc MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid wants to reduce the official Ramadan timings to just four hours.
The government sector now works for six hours in Ramadan, from 8am to 2pm, compared with 7am [...]

Gift of learning for 16 orphans

Sixteen Bahraini orphans will receive top of the line education in leading private schools starting next academic year, Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank announced yesterday.
The students will be selected after a rigorous screening programme, said bank chairman Khalid Abdulla Janahi.
He said that the first initiative, carried out with the Royal Charity Organisation, would entail the sponsorship of [...]