The proposed funding will go into repairing classrooms, sports centres, replace roofs and improve science labs. There will be a total of £400 million of total funding. £400 million school building funds have been approved by the government, which will be going into school repairing activities such as roofing and painting. The school funding will […]
A study in US education shows a correlation between creative teaching and academic excellence. Creative teaching helps students perform better Gallup, an analytic and advisory company, released new data on children’s learnings from a study examining US education. The data shows that there is a significant correlation between creative teaching and students excelling academically. Cognitive […]
With the revised National Education Policy coming up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD), India, new revelations have emerged. A major development that can be expected is that India will make education a basic right for everyone from pre-school to grade 12. Also, the number of courses will increase with a decrease in the […]
China’s President Xi’s comments on blockchain technology had a ripple effect across the nation. All of a sudden, there were universities offering blockchain courses overnight and local initiative for blockchain had already been established. The local media also reported the comments as front page. Blockchain technology is making waves in China with all the major […]
First Global Challenge increases youth involvement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics. AI is indispensable to the UAE’s ambitions, and Dubai Future Foundation is a strategy. The UAE has also introduced design and technology into the school’s curriculum and launched Mohammad Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the first graduate-level, research-based AI university in […]
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) started back in 2006 first but they gained their popularity at the beginning of this decade. Educationists then, predicted that MOOCs would take over higher education from colleges and universities. As we approach the end of this decade, MOOCs, in no sense, have taken over from the conventional methods. However, […]
Ghana’s education is set to be funded to the tune of $150 million by the World Bank. This donation is meant to revamp the nation’s education sector by boosting the quality provided. Ghana’s education will be boosted, and the primary beneficiaries will be the over two million children found in the low performing basic education […]
The cancer blood test kits that were being promoted had a high number of false positives. However, the researcher failed to disclose this, sometimes manipulated the data and marketed a faulty technology. Christof Sohn, director of the women’s clinic at Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany has been promoting cancer blood test that many have argued […]
The Social Credit System by the Chinese Communist party leverages the benefits of the internet to control its external environment. Pioneers of the internet predicted that in the future, the information would be readily available, and there would be a decline of authoritarian regimes. The Social Credit System is a reputation system being developed by […]
Israel’s higher education has been facing distinctive issues, as is the case with many nations. According to Prof. Shlomo Biderman, the chairman of VARAM, the Board of Public Academic Colleges in Israel, Israel’s higher education sector ought to redefine itself for it to remain relevant. Israel’s higher education should be more enticing Prof Biderman noted […]
