If music can calm the savage breast, Emanuel Ax may have been just what the doctor ordered. Around noon last Wednesday, in a 10th floor aerie above West 65th Street overlooking the sprawling campus of Lincoln Center, about 100 guests nibbled on dainty sandwiches and sipped white wine while listening to Ax perform a Schubert [...]

At about the same time the prime minister of India was giving his Independence Day speech announcing his government’s initiatives in a significant expansion of educational facilities at all levels, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University announced the academic ranking of the top world universities on the Internet. In the previous years,
The greatest problem in expanding [...]

But the good news is that quite a few Indian companies are doing wonders to develop a surrogate education system by helping to create, for a variety of industries, a skilled labour pool capable of handling very complex work. A study titled ‘How the disciple became the guru’ by US-based Kauffman Foundation and conducted by [...]

Halfway through the month of August, thoughts turn away from summer fun toward school preparation, and for parents of kids making the transition to middle school, there is typically a bit more angst and preparation required. The kids are contemplating their new territory, social scene, higher academic demands, and of course, the de rigueur new [...]

Chinese mainland and China’s Taiwan won five gold medals each, finishing first at the 39th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) that ended in Vietnam’s Hanoi capital on Monday. South Korea, India and the United States grabbed four gold medals and one silver medal each, ranking the second, followed by Vietnam with four gold medals and one [...]

PROTECTING the Earth is a serious issue - but it can also be fun as many youngsters discovered last weekend when they enjoyed an eco-friendly holiday. The 2008 Environmental Carnival, organized by Knowledge and Innovation Community and Roots and Shoots Shanghai, was held at Shanghai Jiangwan Stadium targeting young children and teenagers.
And for them the [...]

Members from both the treasury and opposition benches demanded an increase in the budget allocations for the health and education sectors, as the National Assembly held its second day of debate on the federal budget for the Fiscal Year 2008-09 on Sunday. They said that subsidies on oil and electricity should continue to control price [...]

Whether they see their virginity as a gift or a stigma to get rid of the first chance they get, today’s teens are desperate to learn about pleasure in “healthy” relationships, which means traditional sex education that beats the safe sex drum is no longer speaking to them, if it ever did.
It is this group [...]

Economic outlook, 79% of business travelers are feeling pressure from their employers to cut travel expenses, according to a new survey.
sponsored by Orbitz for Business, a unit of online travel company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (OWW), and Business Traveler magazine - one-third of respondents said their main concern is cutting the cost of air travel. That’s [...]

Reading, math and science FCAT scores generally improved in Volusia and Flagler counties and across Florida this year, except for a statewide dip in fifth-grade reading.
The scores, released today by the Florida Department of Education, showed the most students reading and doing math at grade level or above since 2001, although only 38 percent of [...]