The Quacquarelli Symonds and Times Higher Education ranking systems have become the standards for university rankings. These rankings, however, are not always objective and the methods they use for university rankings have always been shady. Take the Quacquarelli Symonds, whereby, they use metrics such as academic reputation (accounting for 40 percent), Employer reputation (10%), Faculty/Student […]
English Forward and KEY Foundation become partners in education (Mumbai City, Maharashtra State, India) – English Forward announces the recent signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the KEY Foundation to fast track the growth of the blockchain-based Education Ecosystem in India. The global impact of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of building educational […]
Is the Philippine educational system all set for innovative technology? The Department of Education (DepED) Secretary Leonor Briones says that this switch to online learning has a major potential effect: a positive one for the environment. As we are still under a global pandemic, and as different sectors of the economy come to a screeching […]
The origins of the coronavirus have become a hotly discussed topic since the pandemic began last year in China. Most of the countries in the world are in consensus that the virus originated from the Wuhan wet markets, and jumped from animal-believed to be bats- to humans. However, a scientist who claims that she escaped […]
An Australian university was warned that teaching Chinese students content that might be termed as divisive by the Chinese government may risk them being cut off from their students. A draft report dated 7th February warned the University of Technology Sydney about the risk of their Chinese students getting cut-off from the university if they […]
The number of private schools in the Philippines (PH) declaring shut down of operations has now doubled since three weeks ago. Closure of private schools in the PH Less than a month ago, it was reported that around 440 private schools in the PH are opting to suspend operations due to financial constraints brought about […]
Malala Yousafzai has highlighted the impact of coronavirus on girls’ education globally, highlighting that millions will have dropped out after schools are fully reopened. Things will not go to normal after the coronavirus is fully dealt with for the majority of people around the world. The devastating economic toll this pandemic has caused will last […]
The death of Demetria Bannister, a third-grade teacher in South Carolina, on 7th September came as a shock to many. Although she had been diagnosed with coronavirus, a week after schools reopened on September 4th, she was among the demographics that had been least affected by the virus. She was only aged 28 years, an […]
There should be no stereotyping of college students when it comes to breaking COVID-19 guidelines, it’s not about age, it’s about personality and mindset. Not all college teenagers are rule-breakers. Eliminate the stereotyping of college students As the reopening of universities in the U.K. starts to commence, students from Bristol University are slowly making their […]
Education experts expect non-enrolled students to experience difficulties in catching up if they miss one school year. Non-enrolled students will suffer consequences An analysis from, Professor Joel Javiniar, an Economics professor at the University of the Philippines discussed the double consequences on students that will be forced to skip one school year. Given that the […]
