Puerto Rico schools are resuming on Monday after January 7 earthquake that devastated the island’s south and damaged over 84 schools in the region. Over 30,000 returning students will be making use of tents as lecture classrooms are reportedly a long way from being rebuilt after the earthquake, as nearly 10 percent of Puerto Rico […]
In February 2020, Witwatersrand vice–chancellor Adam Habib announced to step down amidst a crisis in university funding. In a flurry of social media posts, the university don says that institutions will escalate into protests stemming from adverse political decisions, inefficient policy, and a sham promotion system. Habib’s outpour comes amid historic debt protests taking place […]
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $100 million for a new education project that would improve access to and quality of primary education nationwide in Myanmar. The education project, according to the World Bank announcement, is being financed by a credit from the International Development Association (IDA) and will be implemented over […]
Combating climate change is a momentous task but Australia’s Monash University’s innovation in climate change is taking this bull by its horns. Monash University’s curriculum is intertwined with the sustainable development goals and experiential studies. According to Dr. Mark Richardson, the university programs director every unit in design is infused with sustainability elements that are vital […]
Several emerging trends have set in motion an increasing demand for classrooms for rent, which is poised to rebrand standard mode current working space. Notably, with millennials transforming the ways of the world that we live in, there has been a gradual shift in the methods of training or coaching. The standard model followed by […]
A community in the Philippines has recorded the nation’s first case of local transmission of the COVID-19 necessitating new measures to prevent further spread. In view of this development Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has announced plans to declare a nationwide public health emergency to contain the spread of the virus. Earlier in the day, the […]
Following 8 weeks of deliberations, South Carolina senate, has passed an education bill to make significant changes in the public education sector. The education bill has gone through delays due to many committee attendances before being tabled at the senate floor. 41 senators promoted the education bill vis a vis 4 who rejected it, leaving it […]
Several cities in Japan have been hit by chaos as Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe announced the cancellation of all schools and universities in Japan from 2 March. According to him announcement, all Japanese universities are to remain close, a move necessitated in a bid to prevent the continuous spread of the coronavirus. The Japanese PM […]
Indian higher education system is a national curriculum which is a fixed set of courses ranging to geography to physics and planning to engineering, all instructions in English. These courses were not coined by elite politicians but by bureaucrats and competent professors. The Indian higher education system imposes the curriculum on students through tests in colleges […]
India’s higher education secretary Amit Khare has announced that the current administration would be unveiling new education policy in April for the development of the education sector. Khare made this statement while addressing the general public at the International world women’s day celebration, where he noted that the new education policy has been in production […]
