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The UAE and Romania have held discussions on boosting cooperation in the education sector.

Romanian protesters wave national flags while shouting slogans while facing a strong blizzard during a protest at the University Plaza in Bucharest, Romania, 25 January 2012.

Poland, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have all been hit by temperatures as low as -26C - causing schools to close, roads to be blocked and power cut.

Poland, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have all been hit by temperatures as low as -20C - closing schools, blocking roads and cutting power.

Romanian riot police charge protesters in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protest in 1989, in Bucharest, at the weekend.

Romanian riot police charge protesters in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protest in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania, early Sunday morning, Jan.

A man walks by a fire burning in University Square, the scene of the first anti-communist protests in 1989, in Bucharest, Romania, early Monday, Jan.

BUCHAREST, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Romania's capital city of Bucharest has been the scene of anti-government protests for three days in a row, with more than 2,000 people shouting and clashing with riot police on the central University Square on Sunday. The demonstrators asked the president and the cabinet to quit, and called for early elections. Some angry protesters threw stones and even Molotov cocktails at police, who fired tear gas in response. The confrontations resulted in injuries incl ...

Romanian computer scientist Mihai Leonard Cirlanaru, who graduated the Jacobs University Bremen in 2011 and is currently a post-graduate student in an MA program at the University of Cambridge is the Romanian Student of the Year in Europe, according to Romania's External Affairs Ministry.

The International School for Primary Education in Bucharest - which charges A 10,547 a year - decided to begin using Curriculum for Excellence after ditching its adherence to the English curriculum.

From Santa's Digital Workshop , 3D printed ornaments from a workshop that explored the possibilities of advanced algorithmic design held at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania.

When Romania attacked cheating on the all-important high school exam, the unintended consequence was a financial crisis in the universities.

On the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Romanian government must admit the country's historic guilt in order to establish a new generation of understanding, education and atonement , one would think that few secrets remain from what might be the most heavily researched and examined period ever in world history.

University officials accused of a 1.5 million GBP con have been jailed while police investigate an alleged computer scam at their college in Iasi, Romania.

The U.S. notoriously lags other countries when it comes to Internet speed. One recent report from Web analyst Akamai Technologies puts us in 14th place, far behind front-runner South Korea and also trailing Hong Kong, Japan and Romania, among other countries. The sticking point over faster broadband has been: Who will pay for it? Telecommunications companies have been leery of investing in infrastructure unless they are certain of demand for extra speed. American consumers, for their part, have been content to direct much of their Internet use to e-mail and social networks, which operate perfectly well at normal broadband speeds, and they have not been willing to pay a premium for speedier service.

The exception lies at the seat of learning. Universities and research institutes are always looking for a quicker flow of bits. “We think our researchers will be left behind without gigabit speeds,” says Elise Kohn, a former policy adviser for the Federal Communications Commission. Kohn and Blair Levin, who helped to develop the FCC’s National Broadband Plan--a congressionally mandated scheme to ensure broadband access to all Americans--are leading a collection of 29 universities spread across the country in piloting a network of one-gigabit-per-second Internet connections. The group, the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project--more commonly referred to as Gig.U--includes Duke University, the University of Chicago, the University of Washington and Arizona State University.

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Chauncey Hardy, a college basketball star who went on to play pro ball in Europe last year, died Sunday morning after being viciously attacked.

Hardy, just 23, was celebrating a victory with teammates in a bar when he was attacked and sustained severe head injuries. He was in a coma by the time he was admitted to the hospital, suffered two heart attacks, and died.

After graduation from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut last year, Hardy went pro with CSS Giurgiu in Romania, which has several Americans on its roster.

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The team had beaten rivals Dinamo Bucharest on their home court, and Hardy and his friends were in a Bucharest bar when the horrifying incident occurred.

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Labour has been accused of keeping a series of reports - that said immigrants coming to Britain from Bulgaria and Romania had low education levels and so were more likely to claim unemployment benefits - secret.

Romanian Education Minister is to offer this year almost 5,000 scholarships for Moldovan students, following huge interest among young people in the neighboring country.

Five South Dakota State University geography faculty members and one geography master's student recently visited a university in Romania for 12 days that the state university has partnered with.

What do two astronauts, a space agency head, a world expert on Near Earth Objects , and over 130 participants in Bucharest, Romania make? One successful public outreach event put on by SGAC's NEO Working Group, held in conjunction with the Planetary Defense Conference last week! The room was full of engaged audience full of university students and ...

Two Fullbright scholars, two University of Texas students, four University of Nevada students, and our bus driver pose for a picture in front of ceremonial bells at a monastery outside of Maramures, Romania.

Alex Redei, a graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno College of Education, is on a program in Romania.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday against opposition appeals of the wage cap in education law and the social code law, thus clearing them for promulgation.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- The cabinet decided late Thursday to initiate the accountability procedure over a planned wage cap in public education.

Government ready to use emergency procedures to force new law capping wages in education through parliament.

Top news: TEPCO compensation rejected; Ukrainian food is till contaminated; poor nations ask for deeper carbon cuttings; Athabasca forest protection; the next global extinction.

#Nuclear: The Japan Times Online and The Journal de Noticias (print edition, Portugal) report that TEPCO has offered €167,000 in compensation to the 20,000 residents living near the plant, which works out as €8 per person. The article claims that this offer has been rejected.

The Greenpeace report which shows that Ukrainians are still eating contaminated food, 25 years after Chernobyl, is still travelling. It is reported on in the  national media outlets from India, Romania, China and Columbia.

 

#Climate: At the latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok, poorer nations demanded that industrialised countries deepen their carbon-cutting pledges, and that the Kyoto Protocol be extended from 2013. Tension between countries including Canada, Japan and Russia, who are opposed to extending the pact, and developing countries who want it to be extended, threaten to derail the talks. Reuters

 

#Forests: CTV News in Canada reports that Greenpeace is calling for an independent review of plans to conserve the boreal forest in the lower Athabasca region of Canada, arguing that the current plans only protect areas that are not rich in oil, and therefore not under as great a threat as other areas.

 

#Animals: An article in the New York Times reports on research done by scientists at the University of California, Berkley who argue that if endangered species continue to disappear, we will experience a mass global extinction over the next few centuries. They liken the scale of this extinction to five previous great extinctions shown by the fossil record.

 

Got any good environmental news? Let us know in the comments below.

 

Racovita was born in Iasi, in Northern Romania on November 15, 1868. He started his education as a student of Ion Creanga, a famous Romanian writer, and continued his secondary education at the "Institutele Unite" high school.