China ends school fees for 150m
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China is to abolish tuition fees for 150 million rural students in a bid to tackle rural poverty, state media say.
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With monthly inflation at 6.5 percent, Beijing applies its first price controls in 15 years.
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Chinese education officials have scrapped a job cut plan that allowed single-parent teachers with children to stay in work after it prompted a rash of divorces, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Higher costs in China could spell the end of an era of ultra-cheap goods.
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An extra Â£20m is to be put directly into schools in Northern Ireland next year, the education minister says.
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Peru's public school teachers on Thursday ended a 15-day strike against a new law requiring them to take competency tests after government officials agreed to talks on their demand for better training.
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China&#39;s finance ministry late Tuesday announced the tripling of securities stamp tax to curb the country&#39;s soaring stock markets.
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China has halted a plan to distribute  free condoms on university campuses, quashing the AIDS  prevention effort only a week before World AIDS Day, state  media said Wednesday.
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By Jonathan Fenby  China is finally coming clean about the cost to its economy of its huge pollution problem.
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LONDON  - The biggest proposed overhaul of Britain's education system in 60 years was unveiled Monday, including a plan to replace the wave of standardized tests for high-school students with a single diploma system.
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China's leading web search engine is cleared of copyright infringement by a Beijing court.
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The Chinese government confirmed this weekend that it has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan since March, when it began its crackdown on violent or pornographic content, and other material it considers harmful to public
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Between February and August of this year, China has shut down 1,600 internet cafes, and handed out 100 million yuan fines (US$12 million) to cafe operators, for allowing children access to violent or adult-only content and games.
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Thousands of pupils will get one-to-one tuition as the government announces a pilot scheme to track pupils.
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China shut 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($12.1 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media has said.
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China to use 55 billion yuan to settle problems in Three Gorges region    BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will invest 55 billion yuan (6.88 billion U.S.
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The government is redirecting university funding to prioritise first-time undergraduates.