Microsoft on Tuesday appointed its first education general to lead the US technology giant's push to get its software into the hands of students and teachers.

The Capital Education Center across from the statehouse will close Nov. 1 because of the state's fiscal crisis. The Georgia Building Authority, which runs the facility, is hoping the closure is temporary. The agency is closing the center because Gov. Sonny Perdue has ordered departments to cut spending 6 percent this year due to slow revenue collections. Officials say at least $1.8 billion in ...

An early Banksy painting bought as a birthday surprise is sold to pay for its owner's children's education.

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) The Institute of Human Rights Education (IHRE), a non-governmental body which has initiated human rights education in schools across 11 states says that it hardly finds any takers in Delhi.

Education secretary Ed Balls has blamed IT systems at contractor Liberata for continued delays resulting in failure to pay £30-a-week education maintenance allowance to 92,000 hard-up teenagers, weeks after the start of the new term.

SINGAPORE: The committee looking into revamping primary school education met on Wednesday for the first time, and some differences have already emerged as not everyone agrees with the plan to have all schools go single session.

City University of Seattle will be hosting a week-long series of events centered on the globalization of higher education. The events, which will be held between October 28, 2008 and October 31, 2008 in Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., will bring together thought leaders from universities around the world to highlight trends in the internationalization of higher education.

BASKING RIDGE -- The Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Rd., is celebrating Halloween with "The Nature of Halloween," an entertaining and educational night walk for children ages 3 to 6 and their parents (not appropriate...

Parliamentary reporter, Computing , Wednesday 15 October 2008 at 15:01:00 Ed Balls points the finger at sub-contractor's IT systems after 92,000 teenagers fail to receive maintenance cash Education secretary Ed Balls has blamed IT systems at contractor Liberata for continued delays resulting in failure to pay £30-a-week education maintenance allowance to 92,000 hard-up ...

(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top education companies are down at 10 a.m.: Apollo Group fell $.42 or .7 percent, to $56.77. Career Education fell $.46 or 3.2 percent, to $14.06.