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The District of Columbia schools chancellor has dismissed 241 teachers who had formerly received poor appraisals under a new evaluation system.

"Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher; in every classroom, of every school, of every neighborhood, of every ward, in this city," Michelle Rhee said on Friday. "That is our commitment."

Hundreds of students and teachers stage a rally to protest the British government's decision to axe a £55 billion school rebuilding program.

A 'Save Our Schools' gathering Monday outside the Parliament House called on the cabinet to review its decision to halt the Labor-initiated Building Schools for the Future (BSF) program that planned to renovate and rebuild 735 schools across England.

The decision by the University of California (UCLA) to raise additional revenue by attracting more foreign freshmen has caused concerns among in-state students and families.

“The university system is losing more and more money from in-state tuitions and is being forced to capitalize on the extra moneys they get from international students,” economist Paul Cristol told Press TV.

The World Cup in South Africa has been widely seen as a success but organisers are hoping the tournament will leave a more lasting legacy. FIFA, the World Cup's governing body, is backing 'One-Goal', a campaign to ensure that no child is denied the right to a good education. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports. July 11, 2010

Iran and Afghanistan have reached an agreement to open an international university in an effort to promote Persian language and literature.

Iranian Ambassador to Kabul Fada Hossein Maleki announced the news on Saturday saying that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has also asked for the mutual cooperation of professors from both countries.

Despite the scarcity of equipment and lack of funds, a team of Palestinian university students has managed to build a single-passenger running on solar energy.

Engineering students at the Palestine Polytechnic University in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) designed the vehicle as a school project.

Starting schools half an hour later in the morning helps students become more alert, less depressed and more likely to attend classes, a new study finds.

According to the study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, delaying high school start times by as little as half an hour helps teenagers sleep better and longer.

After decades of mismanagement and a lack of investment, many of Pakistan's schools are in a sorry state. For millions of Pakistani children, charity schools are the only hope for an education, but even these are expensive to run. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports on how one community has found a way of funding the eduction of its children.

British businesses criticize politicians for adopting policies that led to a "sea of illiterate school-leavers" across Britain.

Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT, blasted Britain's education standards, saying his company had received thousands of applications from illiterate school-leavers, much of which have not been worthy of consideration.

A new study has revealed that British children from wealthier households are more likely to use alcohol and commit other risky behaviors such as drug taking, smoking and shoplifting.

Britain's Department of Education said in a report on the findings of the study that girls were more likely to drink beverages than boys.