Education

The emerging oil and gas industry in Lebanon may have hit a few speed bumps recently, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s universities from starting to think about the industry’s…

The Middle East, and the Gulf Cooperation Council in particular, is investing heavily in education to tackle high levels of youth unemployment and close the wide gap in skills between…

My son recently turned 15 and is considering his future. There are perhaps fewer reasons than ever for him to stay in school in Lebanon. We have an education system…

There is a palpable sense of urgency in the Middle East to improve employment levels and job options for the region’s growing youth population. Half of the Middle East’s population…

The modern-day obsession with success has hit overdrive in Lebanese schools. While it is a trend that is difficult to quantify, it is obvious to anyone with a child in…

Since the beginning of the academic year, public school teachers, and many from private schools too, have abandoned their classes on an almost weekly basis and taken to the streets.…

Minister of Education Hassan Diab is probably not having easy days at the office. On top of the already decrepit state of public education, coupled with ongoing protests by teachers…

There was a time during the civil war when the Lebanese American University (LAU) did not know if it would have enough money to pay its staff at the end…

At any given moment in a randomly selected Lebanese café, one will likely spot an eight-year-old girl amusing herself with the newest iPad or other high-tech device. It is difficult…

Across the years some have argued that the most important factor needed to ensure that people are free — politically, intellectually and creatively free, to be entrepreneurs, inventors and discoverers…