India Teachers

Sabbatical leave to boost research; report to UGC

Sabbatical leave for mid-career teachers is among the recommendations made by the 4-member panel headed by Professor P Balaram, former director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to the University Grants Commission (UGC).  Entitled, “Promoting and improving quality of research in Indian universities and colleges” the report further elaborates that universities and colleges should develop action […]

Science United States

Send students to space – why not?

Reusability drives the New Zealand-based company Rocket Lab to launch a market for small rockets that uses helicopter and parachute as it lands back on Earth. The question is: is there a possibility to send students to space? Rocket Lab is on its way in developing Electron rockets in a similar ground as Elon Musk’s […]

Social Issues

Video gaming fosters violent culture – truth?

A link was implied from a recent report about how video gaming affects and promotes violent culture in the United States. In less than 24 hours, two shootings took place in El Paso, Texas. It was estimated that thirty (30) people were lost and more were injured, according to CNN. The incident alarmed the whole […]

Innovation United States

Qutrit teleportation can thwart hackers

Qutrit teleportation or beaming quantum information via photons of light can be used to create unhackable internet networks. Quantum teleportation entails obtaining quantum insights from one location to another which occurs through a concept called quantum entanglement. Notably, Albert Einstein referred to this idea as a distance spooky action because two precise quantum particles interlock. […]

unions Europe Teachers Uncategorized

Unions call for support to tackle increasing number of suspensions

Teachers’ unions in the Rotherham area have called for more support for faculty members, as the number of student suspensions increases.  According to statistics from local schools, during the previous school year, more than three thousand students (3600) were on temporary or permanent exclusion from school. Teachers in the  Rotherham area have been noticing a […]

Security United States

ICE raids throw schools into disorder

ICE(Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids in the southern state of the United States, Mississippi, disarray the Scott County school’s usual schedule as children are left with no parents to take them home. What constituted as the largest employment raid in recent history, disrupting lives of almost six hundred and eighty Latino employees, wreaked havoc in […]