UTC Reading: Preparing Students for the Working World Differently Instead of school uniforms, students in one of the new University Technical Colleges (UTCs) in UK are dressed in suits like they would be when they start work in the outside world. Classes will be taught differently in these colleges and many companies such as Microsoft and Cisco have stepped up to offer work experience or set up projects for the students to work on.
Making Education More Accessible for All Although world leaders pledged in 2000 that there will be universal access to primary education by 2015, various obstacles encountered since then have pushed the date back.
Reinventing the Education System in Scotland Scottish schools are taking a different approach by moving away from an exam-intensive curriculum to a more flexible and interdisciplinary one.
"Floating Schools" in Bangladesh In Bangladesh, annual flooding can disrupt school for hundreds of thousands of students. However, with the 20 free "floating schools" run by Shidhulai Swarnirvar Sangstha...
Why Babies Can Be Excellent Grammarians Research has shown that babies actually "babble" grammatically as they copy speech patterns and grammatical nuances and incorporate them in their baby babble.
Is China Using Education to Assert Soft Power? An article from Asian Correspondent recently questioned whether a massive joint academic collaboration between Zhejiang University and Imperial College London...
Degrees no Longer a Guarantee for Good Wages In the UK, despite opposing claims from ministers, the "wage premium" of graduates has fallen by 29 per cent since the early 90s...
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