Graduates have paid millions in repayments after their loans have been cleared.
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Councils' no-deal Brexit plans warn of more expensive school meals and lower nutritional standards.
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The Home Office is to allow courts to impose restrictions on people police suspect carry weapons.
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As readers of my blog know, I’m interested in alternative modalities and representations for programming. I’m an avid follower of David Weintrop’s work, especially the work comparing blocks and text for programming (e.g., as discussed in this blog post). David wrote a piece for CACM summarizing some of his studies on block-based programming in computing education. It has just been published in the August issue. Here’s the link to the piece — I recommend it. To understand how learners make sense...
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The national retraining scheme is the government’s new programme to prepare adults for future changes to the economy.
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National Retraining Scheme gathers pace as new digital service Get Help to Retrain is rolled out to the West Midlands and North East
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How organisations that get or have bid for Erasmus+ or European Solidarity Corps (ESC) funding should register for the HMG guarantee if there’s no Brexit deal.
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Advice for students, school leavers and UK nationals who want to start or continue higher education study in any European Union (EU) country after the UK leaves the EU.
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The steps education providers must take to remain compliant with data protection laws when the UK leaves the EU.
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Advice for higher education institutions in England on how to prepare for Brexit.
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What organisations and businesses should do to get ready for Brexit.
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Advice for schools in England on how to prepare for Brexit.
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Advice to local authority children’s services in England on how to prepare in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
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The survey captures learners’ experiences of their college or training organisation.
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New research casts doubt on the connection between smartphone use and teens' mental health. Some argue it is a case of correlation, not causation, and that the threat is overblown.
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Kids are notoriously tight-lipped about what happens during the school day. Here's how to figure out what's going on.
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In a new feature, Education Week catches you up on the week gone by with a thoughtful look at recent news in K-12 education.
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Teachers have been encouraged to bring more primary sources into the classroom, but doing so presents a challenge when the voices of Native Americans and other historically marginalized groups are so often missing from these documents.
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A new lawsuit alleged that Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School administrators didn’t do enough to protect students.
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Janakiram MSV, Forbes Thanks to the advancements in AI, text-to-speech has evolved to become more natural and realistic to an extent that it may be hard to distinguish it from a human voice. Already, the output from voice-based services such as Alexa and Siri sounds natural. With the most recent improvements in AI, these assistants are set to sound smoother, natural, and realistic. https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/08/11/amazons-text-to-speech-ai-service-sounds-more-natural-and-realistic/#3ff9d46810de...
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Anna Frazzetto, CIO While many businesses are fueled by their ambition to implement AI initiatives, few understand how it can work for their businesses. How do we keep our AI ambitions in line with the business needs of our organization? A simple Google search will tell you that AI has now moved into prime gold rush position. Where once Cloud, Big Data, Cryptocurrency and Block Chain held the position of top tech trend in business, AI is now everywhere and, for many reasons, it should be. AI offers...
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INC. According to research, over 75% of Americans feel little or no passion at work. That’s terrible..but it doesn’t need to be the case. Here’s why Learning and Development is the key to changing that dynamic. There are important business reasons for companies to provide significant learning and development opportunities to employees, and even more important reasons for employees to make learning and development a priority. In order to get a deeper understanding of the power of learning, and why...
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StoryJumper is a good web tool students can use to create and publish storybooks. It’s an ideal way to enhance students writing skills and immerse them in engaging writing projects. StoryJumper is... ....read more
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1:1 Classrooms are teaching/learning environments where each learner has his/her own device be it a computer, laptop, or a tablet. The pedagogical strengths of 1:1 classrooms lies in the fact that... ....read more
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(University of York) University of York-led study has examined genetic variants in six genes that are thought to contribute to language development in children. They found that nearly half of the genetic variants which contribute to children's language were also associated with poor mental health.
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(University of California - Berkeley) UC Berkeley neuroscientists have created interactive maps that can predict where different categories of words activate the brain. Their latest map is focused on what happens in the brain when you read stories.
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(Society for Neuroscience) The most engaging educational videos are correlated with similar brain activity across learners, according to research in young adults recently published in eNeuro.
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(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) Law enforcement K-9s face the same dangers their human handlers confront. Recognizing a gap in care for law enforcement K-9s injured on the job, a team of veterinarians, emergency medical services experts and canine handlers has developed protocols for emergency medical service personnel who may be called upon to help treat and transport the injured dogs.
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(Stanford University) In a perspective published in Joule on August 14, a group of researchers led by Stanford University propose a new academic discipline, 'macro-energy systems,' as the science of the energy transition.
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We can go too far in saying that college rankings don’t matter—but there are limits.
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Companies and employees turning the traditional model of “a college degree gets you a good job” into “a good job gets you a college degree.”
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Colleges expand construction, fail to utilize existing space.
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The future of student housing is going to be driven by technology, the way we interact with our world and an increase in college bound students. Building projects that meet the specific needs of our college students is more important than before.
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Here’s a radical idea policy makers should embrace: to really help the college-going students of today, improve their access to high-quality, affordable child care.
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Field trips are one victim of the testing and accountability era that policymakers and school system leaders haven’t mourned. However, research by accomplished University of Arkansas professor Jay Greene suggests that it may be worth reconsidering the value of the humble field trip.
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The highly endowed University of Texas at Austin is belatedly giving free tuition to low income students. While good, in reality there is a clash in the goal of promoting income equality and that of improving the quality of the collegiate learning experience.
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In this five-part series on trends in learning, we’ve covered 12 trends at various stages of maturity, but none of them compare to the climate crisis—nothing is more important or more imminent. This post considers four impacts of the climate crisis on education.
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This Facebook scam has been fooling for people for years. Don't become the next victim.
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New research explores the impact on our overall careers when we find that our skills are no longer in demand. With the 4th industrial revolution threatening to make so many skills redundant, it has significant implications for policy makers the world over
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Facts that tend to get overlooked in discussions about the gap between rich and poor.
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Hobsons, a leading educational technology company, is teaming up with Temple University’s Hope Center for College, Community and Justice to study and battle the growing problems of food and housing insecurity among college students.
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Readers respond to the news that studying A-level English is in decline and offer their views on how the system could be improvedIt would be good for the quality of life in this country if more A-level students could grasp the difference between employability and earning potential (Farewell A-level English?, 17 August). When it comes to actually influencing the world, studying English language and literature is hard to beat.During my A-level years (1963-1965), I devoured as much of the work of George...
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Thousands sign petition to reverse decision that will result in many getting lower grades Students could lose out on college places next month after the UK’s largest exam board unexpectedly raised the grade boundaries for a new BTec qualification, which will result in many getting lower grades than anticipated.Teachers have expressed outrage and thousands have signed a petition calling on Pearson, which owns the Edexcel exam board, to reverse its decision to raise the boundaries just days before...
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Hearts, by Terry Freedman It’s always good to receive positive feedback. As an ICT Co-ordinator and ICT advisor trying to encourage other teachers to use technology in their lessons, I’ve encountered a lot of resistance. Nevertheless, when people really do see the potential value in using education technology, it’s very gratifying.I should just like to end this series with an example of someone who was delighted with what he was...
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Journal of Chemical EducationDOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00532
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Journal of Chemical EducationDOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00163
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Journal of Chemical EducationDOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b01034
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Journal of Chemical EducationDOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00891
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Journal of Chemical EducationDOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00262
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College admissions scandal: A $100,000 bribe and help from Rick Singer got him a soccer scholarship to UCLA. But he didn't play.
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White House reportedly eyed blocking undocumented immigrants from schools — Puerto Rico teachers union chief resigns
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Most of the options income traders on our trading desk here at SMB trade a strategy known as the butterfly. Professional options income traders tend to gravitate towards the butterfly because it has excellent risk/reward characteristics and is easily modified to adapt to market conditions and still maintain strong profitability potential. If you are interested in learning about the most popular initial set up on our trading desk and a simple way to modify to adapt to changing market pricing then...
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Here is a primer on the jargon of the academic-job market, aimed at early-career scholars preparing for their search this fall.
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