A recent meta-analysis found that undergraduates’ IQs have steadily fallen from roughly 119 in 1939 to a mean of 102 in 2022, just slightly above the population average of 100. The decline in students’ IQ is a necessary consequence of…
This graphic from The Hinrich Foundation provides visual context to the global education gap by ranking 29 major economies by two metrics: 1) average years of schooling, and 2) gross enrollment ratio. Read more in Visual Capitalist Visualizing the Global…
Historically, education systems around the world have emphasized acquiring knowledge and information and de-prioritized interpersonal skills. This needs to change. Read more in weforum Here’s why education systems need to start taking a ‘skills-first’ approach By The Lego Foundation was…
The education industry needs to embrace the rise of AI and adapt to the new reality. The technology will evolve faster than teachers, professors, and school management can anticipate, and students will always find new ways to incorporate the latest…
The disconnect between higher education and employability is growing, along with the soaring costs of tuition fees and student debt.Employers are relying less on college education and many are exploring alternate educational pathways to employment. Read more in weforum Here’s…
The last thing a teacher needs to give her pupils is more information. They already have far too much of it. Instead, people need the ability to make sense of information, to tell the difference between what is important and…
Six in 10 people in Nigeria’s Edo state live on or under the poverty line, and a poor education system has been a stumbling block to growth, development and prosperity. Now, all this is changing. Read more in Weforum These…
Education and training is certainly one way to ensure employee success. Broader than that, however, is the need for companies to realize why they need to invest more in employees. “You have to send strong signals,you have to retool the…
The launch of MIND Kit is opportune in an environment when robotics is garnering greater visibility of its future impact to society, but in reality the opportunities to learn about or even develop complex robotics doesn’t exist outside of the…
Its president, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, said at Davos 2019: “Seventy years ago, Costa Rica did away with the army. This allows for many things. Eight percent of our GDP is invested in education because we don’t have to spend on…
