PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) is an “assessment of the extent to which 15-year-olds have acquired the key knowledge and skills essential for full participation in society.” With the lowest and next to lowest PISA ratings in reading comprehension, math, and science, respectively, the Philippine Department of Education (DepEd) finds its hands full in […]
A startup company in Vietnam is helping students to learn programming. It is also helping them to interact with other technology startups companies. MindX founders have already raised $500,000 to help them expand to more schools and co-working spaces. MindX is helping young students to learn about technology. The startup, which is based in Hanoi […]
Results from the just concluded Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), revealed that the Philippines performed the lowest out of 79 countries in reading comprehension for 2018. According to the result, the Philippines ranked the second-lowest in Science and Math followed by the Dominican Republic. The […]
Over 70 Cambodia students have been granted for full scholarships to study various Master’s degree courses in Australia and New Zealand in 2020 after passing exams to qualify for this opportunity. Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn congratulated them on their accomplishments and admonished them to be good ambassadors of the state. He noted further that […]
The declining number of students in the United States aspiring to be teachers should be a major concern for policymakers. Nationwide, there has been more than one-third decline in the number of students enrolling for teaching prep programs. The enrollment of teachers has been on the decline in the last eight years. In Oklahoma, there […]
The 71-year-old daughter of the founder of restaurant chain Maxim’s has blasted Hong Kong’s Education Sector, for failing to instill national pride and true identities in its young folks. Annie Wu Suk-ching, a renowned Pro-Beijing businesswoman blamed the city’s education system for its failure to encourage a proper sense of national identity in local youths. […]
After months of unrest in Hong Kong, Democrats Au Nok-hin and Eddie Chu drafted a private members’ bill requesting for amendment of Hong Kong’s riot law. The protest led to an election that recorded massive turnout and handed victory to pro-democracy local district council candidates. The Democrats won a majority in 17 out of 18 […]
A Virginia Tech professor, along with his team of researchers discovered a new approach of using microfluidic technology. New microfluidic technology discovered Little do we know about diseases and how our body reacts to their attacks, the human DNA is a complex structure that makes every individual unique. But a Virginia Tech professor, together with […]
Scientists have been angered by a biophysicist who claimed he was able to use CRISPR to edit the gene of twins and give them immunity to HIV. They have criticized the research because it did not follow the set-out rule on how to approach such an issue. The research was also a failure. Scientists have […]
LibGen, a torrent service site, has over 33 terabytes of scientific data and research scrapped from paywalled scientific sites. Its users are able to access the service for free and download the data. The site has faced both legal and logistical issues in its bid to stay online. Scientific papers and research data are always […]
