School reopening has dominated the news cycle in the last few months as parents, governments and teachers remain at odds with each other on the best way to return students to schools. Parents across the US have now started pushing back against the stringent measures that have been placed by the government and state governments […]
President Xi Jinping has indicated that China is open to cooperating with the international community in advancing the fields of education and technology. Xi, on Thursday, indicated that his country was looking forward to working with the international community in helping advancing education and technology in China and the rest of the world. In a […]
Trans and queer children will be in a tough sport in Australia starting next year if a bill proposed by Mark Latham, an Australian politician, sails through and becomes a law. The bill, Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) bill 2020, that was introduced to the New South Wales (NSW) upper house earlier this year seeks […]
This year’s Forbes 30 under 30 list is shining the spotlight on Adnan Ebrahim—a tech-savvy entrepreneur, who had all the traits to be better poised to start and succeed in a new venture, yet chose to keep his dreams and ambition unknown from the world for a long time until he couldn’t keep it a […]
Piero Tintori and his company Better Examination did not anticipate how much of a role their machine learning platform would play during the pandemic. At the onset of the pandemic, schools and universities went into lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus across Europe and the US. The solution to continue education remotely was highly […]
Union leaders have asked the Department for Education (DfE) and the government to be transparent by releasing the number of teachers who have died due to coronavirus since the schools reopened. The leaders also wanted to know the number of hospitalization and infected teachers during that period. The spread of coronavirus in the UK forced […]
A solution is being sought on how to test functional students currently on their apprenticeship including replacing it with portfolio evidence grading. It is now estimated that, across the UK, over 30,000 students taking their apprentice in different sectors, with a majority being from the health and care sector, are in limbo on when and […]
The rise and rise of big tech companies in the last few decades are slowly turning digital and personal information into a monopoly that they control. In today’s data economy, the raw value of information has been compared to the oil industry with many experts indicating that information is now more valuable than oil. However, […]
The number of students with disability receiving government support in the state of Victoria is expected to double as the government looks set to introduce a A$1.6 billion package for funding the students. Reports indicate that the upcoming state budget will include the package, which will see increased funding for the students with disability. The […]
A new study is shedding light on how teachers perceive the controversial phonics autumn phonics check. The autumn phonics checks are administered in the UK after a student has successfully gone through year 1. These tests are designed to test students’ ability to read and how well they have mastered their phonics after their first […]
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