Chief executives of some of the United States’ best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders on Thursday, invoking stronger gun laws, including the expansion of background checks to all firearms sales. Heads of nearly 150 companies, including Levi Strauss, Twitter, and Uber, signed the letter stating that inaction on gun violence is “simply unacceptable”. […]
According to a recent government announcement, the Philipines K-12 curriculum will become more focused on digital literacy. The transition towards better digital education will be facilitated by the newly adopted Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP). DTP was developed by telecommunications giant Globe, which has a company goal to help boost education in online behavior and overall […]
A senior official in the ministry of education in Saudi Arabia was fired over a mistakenly altered image of the King of Saudi Arabia sitting next to Star War’s famous character Master Yoda. It has drawn attention from the public, some making fun of it and some criticizing the error of the education ministry. The […]
Cameroon insurgency reaches three (3) years causing enforced school closure. According to UNICEF (United Nations Children Emergency Fund), six hundred thousand (600,000) students have had their education stopped, with eighty percent (80%) of the schools in the state shut down. From ensuring schools remain closed and making the cities, towns, and villages inhabitable, the […]
While the staggering student loan crisis in the United States is nothing funny, comedian Hasan Minhaj has recently appeared before Congress to testify on the subject. Mr. Minhaj was officially invited to speak before Congress after an episode of his comedy program dedicated to the student loan crisis aired. In his speech before the assembly, […]
Disabled learners are being pulled out of WA (West Australian) schools by their parents at an alarming rate. This has been instigated by their concerns that their children are not getting optimal classroom support. Disability campaigners have asserted that inappropriate resourcing has been witnessed in WA schools. This has been detrimental because of the failure […]
Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State for Education noted that unconditional offers had risen from 3,000 in 2013 to nearly 76,000 this year in United Kingdom universities; for this fact, he instructed universities to limit unconditional offers and create a minimum predicted grade threshold rather than a free for all to maintain students’ bright form. An […]
E-learning current market value of one hundred-ninety billion dollars ($190B) is expected to continue its upward growth in the next five years to a market value of around three hundred billion dollars ($300B) in the year 2024. The report from the Global Market Insights is attributing this growth to the growth in technology and the […]
According to astrophysicists from Germany’s Max Planck Society, the expansion of the cosmos is changing perceptions about the universe as it is happening at a faster rate as compared to previously speculated. The researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Society were innovative as they shifted the scale from the previous Hubble constant of seventy to over […]
In Australia, about seventy-five percent (75%) of all educators are female with only twenty-five percent (25%) male teachers. The situation is even more severe when it comes to lower grades and kindergarten, where males represent only about two (2%) to three percent (3%) of all employees. With the rise of social awareness and equality between […]
