high school

A gun jams, and a student tries to help

Abu Dhabi - Emirates Voice

Armed with a pistol and rifle, classmates say the shooter's face "was passive" in the hallway of a high school in a tiny Washington state town. He tried to fire a weapon, but it jammed, and another boy confronted him. "He went to his next weapon," Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said. "A student walked up to him, engaged him,Read more

Scholarships from DHA open

Abu Dhabi - Emirates Voice

The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has opened the registration for Emirati high school graduates who are seeking scholarships in the fields of medicine and science, as part of the Health and Science scholarship programme. Amna Al Suwaidi, director of human resources at the DHA, said that in addition to the scholarship and covering of student's expenses, the authority will beRead more

Pupils opine on life’s challenges at Tedx talk in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi - Arab Today

A group of high school pupils presented a series of provocative talks about issues facing society as part of the Tedx Al Yasmina Academy event on Saturday. How do we sift through an overload of information to find the truth? What effect will machines have on the jobs of the future? Does growing old really have to be so scary?Read more

Illinois high school shuts down for second day after stomach virus outbreak

Detroit - Xinhua

An Illinois high school has told students to remain home for a second day due to a stomach virus affecting nearly a third of its 2,500 students, reported the United States TV network CNN on Wednesday. About 800 students were ill with norovirus-like symptoms and the school was working with Illinois Department of Public Health to clearly identify the virusRead more

Daesh slogan on wall of Bezri High School in Sidon

Sidon - Arab Today

Unidentified individuals wrote on Tuesday a slogan "the Islamic State remains" on the wall of Nazih al-Bezri high School in Sidon, NNA field reporter said. The police opened an investigation into said case to uncover perpetrators. Source:NNARead more

Syrian refugee graduates as top student from Australian high school

Melbourne - ArabToday

A Syrian refugee who only began learning English in 2014 after escaping his war-torn country has graduated as the top student at one of Australia's largest secondary Catholic schools. Saad Al-Kassab has been celebrated as dux (top student) of Catholic Regional College Sydenham, in Melbourne, after earning an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of 96.65. Yet he and his familyRead more

Malala now ‘a millionaire’

London - Arab Today

The family of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai have become millionaires from her best-selling memoir and speaking engagements, a report claimed Wednesday. The Daily Mail has stated that the company Salarzai Ltd., which was set up to protect the rights to Malala's life story, has made a pre-tax profit of £1.1 million. Malala and her parents are joint shareholdersRead more

Egypt cancels high school exam amid leaks

Cairo - Arab Today

Egypt canceled a high school final exam on Sunday after papers for it were leaked online, the education ministry said, in the latest such incident this month. The exam in applied mathematics would instead be held next Saturday, it said, and other tests in geology, history, and pure mathematics were rescheduled. The prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that the stateRead more

Obamas rent mansion in DC as home post-White House

Washington - Arab Today

US President Barack Obama and his family will move into a rented mansion in the historic Kalorama community in Washington, DC, next year. When the Obamas leave the White House in January they will lease a 1928 mansion featuring nine bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms, Politico Playbook reported. At the end of Obama's second term in office the first family willRead more