Posts Categorized: International Education

After being handed the objective of erasing illiteracy among the elderly by fifty percent before 2015 by the Dakar Education Conference, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has successfully managed to top this goal over two years early, announcing to UNESCO that it has erased 60.61 percent of illiteracy before the end of 2013.   The… Read more »

Technology has evolved vastly in the past few decades and especially so in more recent years. Nowadays it seems like everyone’s got an iPad, a cellular phone, a laptop, a personal computer and knows what Google is. But in our experience, here at SeekTeachers, we’re seeing many teachers whom have little to no IT skills… Read more »

Starting on the 29th of June each year, gun-toting individuals take to the street to do battle and leave pools of deep red wherever they go, hell-bent on causing chaos, intoxication and a whole lot of fun. Fun you say? Why yes! The Batalla del Vino sees individuals stock up on as much wine as… Read more »

The first of its kind, the Cliqlite by Etisalat Nigeria aims to bring e-learning to children and is aimed for curious minds between the ages of eight and fifteen. The product includes parental controls that allow parents to easily and simply restrict access to unsuitable content for their children, meaning that they can enjoy peace… Read more »

Today we bring you one of the most important events in the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, and tell you how you can show respect as a guest in primarily Muslim countries towards those taking part in this age-old practice. In 2014, Ramadan will take place beginning on June 29th (Sunday) and ending July 29th (Tuesday). The… Read more »

So it turns out that R. Kelly wasn’t completely wrong about believing: an ongoing study has recently confirmed that many students’ mindsets factor into their ability to learn and advance through schooling (and higher education) programs. These mindsets were split into two types defined by Stanford University’s PERTS Lab’s Dave Paunesku, Paunesku used the examples… Read more »

So it’s finally happened, after seeing repeated ‘higher job prospects’ statements leading to frustrating job searching for years at a time, after feeling the pressure of coursework and not seeing it pay off, after seeing course fees soar up over £9,000 a year; the head of Universities UK, Professor Sir Christopher Snowden has admitted that… Read more »

It’s now known that the new Teaching Licence Scheme developed by the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates is even more likely to be implemented soon. The new scheme will see over sixty thousand teachers from across the region having to undertake a rigorous test in order to live and work as a… Read more »

Given many different names, the Duanwu, or Dragon Boat Festival, is China’s iconic festival celebrating its culture in its purest and strongest form. The Festival sees many activities including tasting Zongzi (a type of sticky rice dumplings) and Xionghuang Jiu (wine made from Realgar, an arsenic sulphide), as well as Duanwu racing (racing between Dragon… Read more »

Exhibited in the Gulf Medical University (GMU) last week, students from over fifty schools have exhibited their scientific projects at the Annual Scientific and Medical Exhibition in Ajman. The Exhibition is also called GMU Mase 2014 and saw over 4500 students from over 250 schools attend the exhibition.   The exhibition was inaugurated by the… Read more »