UK schools 'treading water' as Far East surges ahead

East African Community (EAC) may mean little to residents of that part of the continent living far away from borders of those countries. However, to those living at the crossing points between the countries the community has a special significance.

Iran ranks number 15 on the list with nearly 8,744 students studying in the US Dubai: For students from China in the Far East to Brazil in the Far West, pursuing higher education in top US educational institutions mean a dream come true. A study ...

Dudgeon will be the wind farm which is located furthest from the UK east coast thus far Dudgeon Offshore Wind Ltd has decided to go further with Great Yarmouth as the preferred harbour location for the operation and maintenance activities for the ...

NEW DELHI: Government has so far this year asked to block 1,208 web addresses, or uniform resource locater (URLs), Parliament was informed today. Social networking sites were requested to block these web pages in order to comply with court orders, ...

Shem BageineShem Bageine, Uganda's state minister for EAC Affairs spoke to The Independent's Julius Businge on Dec.1 a day after the 15th Summit of East African Community Heads of State held in Kampala. What significance does this 15th summit ...

AS scientists continue scratching their heads on the source of the deadly new virus called Middle East Corona Virus (MERS) that surfaced in the Middle East last year, health experts in the country are concerned about changing eating habits by many ...

There are times when Japan feels too perfect - its aesthetic and beauty, the meticulousness and supreme organisation ... Take the train system. The famed Shinkansen, or bullet train, is never late, nor is it early - it arrives precisely when it is ...

It is perhaps the law of Nature that when one particular individual, community, nation or even system experiences a failure and fiasco, Nature creates a fresh one to step into the shoes of the previous one for accomplishing the sets of task(s) it ...

BEIJING: China today issued a serious alert for worsening smog as heavy haze shrouded the country's north and east, with highways closed and flights delayed or cancelled. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) upgraded the alert to orange, the ...